Apogee
Update & Direction
By Sun Seng David TAN

Nuxeo
• Creation: 2000
• Activity: Software vendor of the Nuxeo open
source ECM platform and its associated suite
• Positioning: Innovative platform provider for
ECM applications.
• Head office Location: Paris.
• 40 employees

Apogee ?
\" Apogee is an open source project to build a
complete framework for ECM-oriented rich
client applications. \"

Apogee at Eclipse
summit 2008
• Introduction to ECM and Nuxeo EP
• A bit of history
• Apogee status
• What's next?

What's ECM?

Contents without ECM
• PCs for videos, photos, office documents, etc.
• Files explorer
• Windows sharing system
• Save versions by copying / renaming

Entreprise
Content
Management

What's ECM?
• Entreprise Content Management
• Accessible
• For Companies, Schools, Organisations, ...
geeks
• Document – Digital content (images, videos,
etc.)
• Sharing, Reviewing, Publishing, Editing,
Searching, Versioning and Storing

Nuxeo EP
• Is an ECM Application
• A Platform
• Component model (OSGi)
• JavaEE (JBoss, GlassFish, Jetty)
• Open-source (Jackrabbit, Jena, Lucene)

Nuxeo EP looks like...

Apogee Origins

Apogee Origins
• AFP (Agence France Presse) – CNG
• Nuxeo 5 released
• PA project

AFP - Console NG
• Multimedia / News Editing
• Connect to Nuxeo CPS server
• XML–RPC
• Based on Eclipse RCP

AFP - Console NG

Apogee birth
• Release of Nuxeo EP
• From CNG to Apogee
• Why we choose RCP :
• Content producers need a real application not
a browser
• Nuxeo use OSGi and Extension points as core
component model
• SWT provides nice multi-platform UI
• Eclipse update system handles deployment
problems

Press Association - Nutxt
• Teletext editing
• Apogee RCP Framework
• Connect to Nuxeo EP
• JBoss Remoting

Press Association - Nutxt

Apogee Status

Apogee in Nuxeo

Today: Architecture
Nuxeo EP (JBoss) Nuxeo RCP
Apogee
Nuxeo Platform
Eclipse RCP
JBoss
Nuxeo Core Remoting Nuxeo Core
(Network)
Nuxeo Runtime Nuxeo Runtime

Today: features
• All the server-side services available (Search,
Workflow, Relation, etc.)
• Local or remote?
• Rich remote content browsing
• Desktop integration (drag & drop, Html editor,
Image editor), Real application
• Live content update
• Fills your needs: Dynamic and Rich XML Forms
(Metadata editing)

Show

Show
• Connect to a remote server, browsing, image
import by drag & drop
• PA editing console: Nutxt
• Dynamic forms
• Live update

Next
• CMIS (Content Management Interoperability
Services)
• Nuxeo is joining OASIS
• No hard dependency on Nuxeo
• Connect to any CMIS compliant server
• Eclipse Project
• Incubation state

Join the community
• Contact me: stan@nuxeo.com
• Nuxeo web site: http://www.nuxeo.com
• Downloads:
http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/downloads
• Sources: https://svn.nuxeo.org/nuxeo/nuxeo-
rcp/trunk/
• Forum: http://www.nuxeo.org/discussions

Questions & Answers