Apogée
&
Nuxeo RCP
Eclipse Now You Can 2006 Eric Barroca, eb@nuxeo.com
13 October 2006, Paris, France Stéfane Fermigier, sf@nuxeo.com

Agenda
• Who we are
• The Nuxeo ECM stack
• Apogée
• Nuxeo RCP
• Status, perspectives and collaboration
• Case Studies
• Conclusion

Nuxeo
Open Source ECM

Enterprise Content Management
Convergence of
all non-numeric
information
management
software and
processes in an
organization

Nuxeo
• OSS ECM Vendor since 2000
€ 2.1M
• Creator of Nuxeo ECM
(formerly Nuxeo CPS)
• Pure OSS player
€ 1.3M
• 31 people in Paris, London,
€ 0.7M
Bucharest, Dakar
€ 0.3M
• Self-funded & pro table
• 1000+ successful
2003 2004 2005 2006
deployments

Prestigious Customers
• Top european companies
• Prestigious customers
• Defense, Energy
• Press, Government
• Critical and large ECM
applications
• Document Management
• Collaboration
• Compliance, etc.
• Partnering with major IT
companies

The Nuxeo ECM Stack

Nuxeo ECM: The Big Picture
Nuxeo Enterprise Platform Nuxeo Rich Client Platform
Nuxeo Enterprise Components
E
aE Functional plugins
Jav 5
MS O ce
Nuxeo WDK Ecl Extension
ip
RC se
P
Nuxeo Java EE Services Apogée Infrastructure
Nuxeo Core
OS
Gi
Nuxeo Runtime

Eclipse Apogée

Why Apogée? (1/2)
• ECM desktop applications, the Eclipse way!
• Build a core infrastructure and a family of components
targeted to ECM-oriented desktop applications
• Components should be independent enough to be
used separately
• Leverage industry standard and existing open source
components

Why Apogée? (2/2)
• Vendor-neutral
• Any ECM platform vendor should be able to use and create
connectors for Apogée
• O er user-friendly tools
• No bloatware
• Think “user experience” and “e ciency”
• Design “components” and “reuse”

Why a Rich Client Framework?
• For intensive document-oriented work, the browser is
not enough...
• Deep integration with the desktop
• Hardware device integration (scanner...)
• O ine work with synchronization
• Responsive and rich interface
• The browser is not a window manager nor HTML/CSS a
modern UI toolkit...
• ...at least not for users!

Eclipse Apogée Project
Applicative components
BPM
Mail Client Calendar Whiteboard
(Eclipse BPEL)
Content Collaborative IM etc.
Editors Workspaces (ECF)
Core Infratructure
Remote Content Type
Sync Search
Interface Service
(SyncML)
Content Indexing
Cache XForms Engine
Model (Apache Lucene)
Storage Relations Content
Security
Service Engine Schemas
(ETF)
Apogee Content Model
JCR Nuxeo Core Eclipse FS

Standards and tools (1/2)
• Standard way to access di erent repository
• Nuxeo Core model
• Java Content Repository (JSR-170) as storage engine
• iECM API
• XForms
• Eclipse Forms generation from XForms
• Enable form sharing between client and the server
• XML Schemas
• Content schemas (and storage schema generation)
• XForms dynamic validation
• SyncML for client/server and client/client sync.
• RDF for relation storage

Nuxeo RCP

Nuxeo RCP?
• Based on Eclipse Apogée
Nuxeo RCP
• Integration of Nuxeo Core
Apogee
Nuxeo RCP
• Integration with the Nuxeo
Components
Components
Enterprise Platform 5
• Integration with third-
Apogee Infrastructure
party software (ex: Adobe,
ImageMagic, etc.)
Nuxeo Core Engine
• Professional Support and
Apache Jackrabbit (+DB)
Services from Nuxeo

Nuxeo Core
• Embeddable Content
Nuxeo Core
Management Core (POJO)
POJO API Remote API JavaEE API
Core Services
• XMLSchema to de ne
Schemas
content schemas
DataModel
NXQL Engine
Manager
• Uni ed storage backend
QueryEngine Events XSD Engine
• Low-level document
management services
Core Repository
• Powerful Query API (NXQL)
Content Repository
• Core Connector o er a
Storage
Adapter
public local and remote
Content Store (JCR)
interface
Apache Jackrabbit - Pure SQL - XML Database

Nuxeo RCP Components
• Nuxeo Core powered
• NXQL engine
• Nuxeo Core sync engine
• Local / Remote databases
• Full integration with Nuxeo EP
• External software integration
• Adobe Reader
• Image Magick
• Digital Signature
• Improved Look and Feel

Status, Perspectives and
collaborations

Design
✓ Overall architecture (v1, refactoring in progress for v2)
✓ Content storage and model (idem)
✓ XForms engine and XML Schemas validator
✓ Relation engine
‣ Security
• ACL-based model implemented into Nuxeo Core
• ETF/Higgins Integration (auth schemes)

Development
✓ Global infrastructure [Partial]
✓ Jackrabbit integration, content model
✓ XForms engine and XMLSchemas validation
❖ Synchronization [in progess]
✓ Content Editor (MSO ce, OpenO ce and Mozilla
Composer through Xored Composer)

Collaboration with Eclipse Projects
• RCP as foundation
• ECF for communication and synchronous collaboration
• Instant Messaging
• shared whiteboard
• ETF for security and authentication
• Corona as collaborative workspaces engine
• BIRT for activity audit and reporting
• Eclipse BPEL as work ow designer

Collaboration with other Projects
• Funambol (ObjectWeb) as SyncML server and client API
• Jackrabbit (Apache) as JCR-compliant repository
(storage engine)
• Jena (HP) or Sesame (OpenRDF) as RDF database
engine

Collaboration
• Planned contributions
• Bug report and bug xes
• Patches & improvement proposal (ex: providers for ETF, ICE
transport for ECF)
• Component development takeover
• Cooperation with involved projects will be done as
much as possible

Community
• 60 subscriptions to the mailing-list
• Website online at apogee.nuxeo.org
• SVN at http://svn.nuxeo.org/pub/Apogee
• SVN, web site, mailing list, etc. to be transfered to
eclipse.org ASAP

Case studies

CNCC Reader (1/3)
• Customer: French Company of Statutory Auditors
• Challenge: provide an o ine reader for the whole
french law (3 GB)
• Key Functions:
• Search
• Semantic navigation
• O ine work
• Technologies:
• Eclipse Apogée
• RDF (Sesame database)
• Lucene
• OpenO ce integration
• Nuxeo Core

CNCC Reader (3/3)

AFP Console NG (1/3)
• Customer: Agence France Presse
• Challenge:
• Provide a reactive interface enabling journalist to write
multimedia news stories with a collaborative approach
• Key Functions:
• WYSIWYG XML editor
• Search, navigation and content reuse from RSS feeds
• Images manipulation
• Multi-channels broadcasting
• Shared collaborative workspaces
• Work ow

AFP Console NG (2/3)
• Technologies:
• Eclipse Apogée
• Nuxeo Core
• Xored HTML editor
• ImageMagick
• Autoupdate

AFP Console NG

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