This presentation was given by Thierry Delprat, Nuxeo's CTO, June 5 to present the current Nuxeo Roadmap a few weeks before the Nuxeo Platform 5.6 release.

1. An Hour with the CTO and
the Community Liaison of Nuxeo
The Nuxeo Roadmap: Nuxeo Platform 5.6 and beyond
Thierry Delprat
Laurent Doguin
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2. Agenda
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The Nuxeo Roadmap: Nuxeo Platform 5.6 & Beyond
Thierry Delprat, CTO, Nuxeo
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The Nuxeo Community: How to Participate
Laurent Doguin, Community Liaison, Nuxeo
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Q&A
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3. Release Timeline
Nuxeo Nuxeo Nuxeo
5.5 5.6 6.0
Dec. Dec. 2012 /
2011 Q1 2013
we are here !
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4. About the 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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5. About the 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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6. Usability Improvements: Goals
Improve Nuxeo UI
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For users : user experience
– make UI more intuitive
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align on current UI standards
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For developers : UI Framework
– make building new screens easier
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provide more high level building blocks
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more guidelines
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7. Usability Improvements: Nuxeo 5.6
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CSS and Styles refresh
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Rationalize Action system
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explicit typing / generic renderers /
keyboard bindings
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Layouts and Widgets everywhere
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use CSS grid based layout
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build screens based on Layouts
– Widgets to render actions
– Layout / widgets / sub-widgets
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More Ajax navigation with history support
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8. Usability Improvements: Next Steps
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Continue extending the Layout / Widget system
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Use for global page layout
– integrate with Theme Engine layout system
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Support more rendering technologies
– WebEngine (FreeMarker)
– Mustache.js (JavaScript)
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9. About 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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10. PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand: Goals
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For end users :
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create on demand custom Nuxeo instances
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For developers :
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create on demand dev or test instances
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For software vendors :
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deliver SaaS based on Nuxeo PaaS
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allow per-client customization
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11. PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand: Nuxeo 5.6
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Multi-tenant add-on
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per-tenant users and groups
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enforces data isolation
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leverage local confguration
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Quota management
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Modules / Packages system
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align packaging and dependency system on CUDF
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add private and public channels
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install packages and confguration via NuxeoCtl
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deploy custom confg automatically
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support for automatic updates
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12. PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand: Next Steps
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Continue work on Nuxeo Cloud Controller
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use NuxeoCtl + Chef recipes
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Custom Studio profles
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leverage Studio confguration
for custom software based on Nuxeo Platform
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13. About 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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14. Content Routing: Goals
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Extend Case Management workfow engine to all Nuxeo Platform-
based applications
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Provide a more fexible workfow engine than jBPM
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Confgure everything from Nuxeo Studio
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process graph
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forms and page fows
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15. Content Routing: Nuxeo 5.6
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Add support for graph-based routes
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merges, loops, jumps, …
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Becomes the default workfow engine
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no more compulsory jBPM dependencies
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Use Nuxeo Studio as workfow editor
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create graph routes via Nuxeo Studio
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adjust and tweak routes from Nuxeo UI
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16. Content Routing: Next Steps
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Make Case Management components part of platform
infrastructure
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Mailboxes, Distribution service ...
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Manage any document as a case in a distribution
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Wait for user and developer feedback
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17. About 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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18. New Features: Nuxeo 5.6
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Collaboration
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extend Social features
– wall, rating, like,
comment on activity …
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new team calendar
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Document templates
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docx / odt, XLS templates and merge felds
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extension of renditions
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support for Freemarker template associated to documents
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19. New Features: Nuxeo 5.6
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Diff between Documents / Versions
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on meta-data
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on binary content
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Mobile Web UI for Nuxeo Platform
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Web UI based on HTML5 and jQuery Mobile
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use Apache Cordova to provide native bindings
– “App” packaging
– suspend / Resume
– FileSystem interactions
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20. New Features: Nuxeo 5.6++
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Add offine support for mobile Web UI
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mustache.js / backbone
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local storage via Apache Cordova
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Desktop Client
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Python / Automation-based
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frst beta will be available this summer
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Site factories
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leverage new modules and infrastructure changes to provide a Site
factory infrastructure
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Merge Document Management and Collaboration features
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21. About 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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22. Infrastructure Update: Nuxeo 5.6
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Infrastructure refresh
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support for OpenJDK 7
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support for Tomcat 7
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New infrastructure services
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Job management service
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Confguration service (multi-node)
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23. Infrastructure Update: Next Steps
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VCS Caching system improvements
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leverage the tests done on shared cache
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better performance on big Nuxeo clusters
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Update from Seam /JSF 1.2 to CDI / JSF2
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leverage the work done in nuxeo-cdi
– most technical points are validated
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share framework between JSF and WebEngine
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No forced OSGi migration
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24. About 2012 Roadmap
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Usability Improvements
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PaaS - Nuxeo On Demand
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Content Routing
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New Features
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Infrastructure Update
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Tools
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25. Nuxeo Tools: Nuxeo 5.6
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Nuxeo Studio
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confgure new screens from Nuxeo Studio
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integrate your automation actions everywhere
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confgure workfow via a Graph editor
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more fexibility on layouts and widgets
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Nuxeo Studio and Nuxeo IDE
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a lot of small fxes to improve the fow
– can now work on complex projects
with both Studio and IDE in an easy way
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26. Nuxeo Tools: Next Steps
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Nuxeo Studio and Nuxeo IDE
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improve integration between Studio and IDE
– easy override from IDE
– populate Studio registry from Nuxeo IDE
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continue integrating the feedback from the developers
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add a customizable profle system for Studio
– defne the features you want to see
– defne profle based on Marketplace packages?
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27. That's all for 2012
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… at least we hope
so ...
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28. Come out and play
Nuxeo on GitHub
– opened 6 months ago
– 30+ pull requests
– new home for community projects on the way
Answers.Nuxeo.com
– hang out here to ask or answer questions!
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29. Nuxeo Code Sprint
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When? June 21-22 2012
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Where? Nuxeo's offce in Paris
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Who? Everyone is welcome to join our dev team!
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What? You decide!
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30. QUESTIONS ?
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