Archive for January, 2009

Work has started on two large scale R&D projects, financed in part by the French Government and Paris Region (for Scribo), and by the European Commission (for IKS).

• Scribo (http://www.scribo.ws/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome) aims at integrating language and image analysis technologies, as well as ontologies extractions and annotation techniques, into content management systems.
  Work on the project is now in the design phase, but expect to see some code related the UIMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIMA) in our repository in the following moths.

• IKS (http://www.iks-project.eu/) is a 4 year project funded by a 6.5 MEUR grant from the EC which aims to bridge the gap between researchers in the area of semantics and interactive knowledge, and small to medium size companies in the fields of Content Management and Knowledge Management. Its end major technological result of the project will be the “Interactive Knowledge Stack”, a layered set of software components

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Florent Guillaume is in the US this week for the first face-to-face meeting of the CMIS working group since the project got accepted by OASIS a few months ago. We’ll get a clearer roadmap for the specification (which, last time I checked, was supposed to go gold by the end of 2009 or beginning of 2010).

A prototype miminal implementation of CMIS 0.5 (the most recent draft) on top of WebEngine, using all the power of JAX-RS annotations, is now publicly available (http://hg.nuxeo.org/sandbox/nuxeo-cmis/).

We’re still working very hard on the 5.2 M4, which has been delayed one more week and should be ready by the end of this week.

Here are a few technical highlights of what’s coming soon:

• The SQL repository will become the default repository in 5.2 (JCR storage will still be supported).

• Workflow refactoring: the workflow API and implementation is being simplified, to be easier to use for developers.

• Events refactoring: the event API and implementation is being simplified, to be easier to use for developers.

• WebEngine: some refactoring to make it easier to use for developers (see a pattern here ? ) Another huge improvement is that it is now possible to write the interaction classes in Java and have them hot-releaded by the server, increasing developers agility and pleasure.

• Search refactoring: the Core is now responsible for search, the API has been simplified, Compass is gone.

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Nuxeo has been named “Company to Watch in 2009” by Intelligent Enterprise. “Strong community support” has been highlighted in the article, so thanks to everyone who is part of our project! (Full quote: “Already the leading open-source enterprise content management vendor in Europe, Nuxeo now has its sights set on the big US market. Expect to see its fast growth, strong community support and steady pace of innovation continue. “)

More information in this corporate announcement:
http://www.nuxeo.com/en/news/nuxeo-has-been-selected/