Fresh Brew

13.02.2007

Nuxeo EP 5.0.0 GA aka "New Orleans" Released

After a few weeks of refactoring / cleaning / testing, the Nuxeo team has rolled out the final release of Nuxeo EP 5.0.0 code-named "New Orleans". Nuxeo EP 5.0 is an open source enterprise content management platform, based on Java EE 5, JBoss Seam and OSGi. "It’s really a turning point for our community, our customers and our company. And I would like to deeply thank them all, starting with our development team and external contributors. This release means a lot. It means a complete technology switch from Python/Zope to Java (EE) 5, JSF, EJB3, etc. It also means that we are proving that innovation is still at the core of our business with this new platform, designed with extensibility and developers’ needs in mind," said the company spokesperson.

Features highlights for this release

Full document lifecycle, including versionning, check-in / check-out, etc
Access rights management
Workflow, including document approval
Relations between documents
Audit trails
Drag'n'drop document management inside the web browser
User-convenient desktop and office suite integration using plugins for IE, Firefox and MSOffice

Technical highlights

Based on an "embeddable ECM core", Nuxeo Core, which can be embedded both in server-side applications like Nuxeo EP, and client-side like in the forthcoming Nuxeo RCP rich client for ECM.
Based on modern Java EE 5 technologies: JSF, JCR (Java Content Repository), EJB3, JBoss Seam, jBPM, OSGi...
Fully extensible using an extension points and plugin system (Nuxeo Runtime), very similar to the Eclipse plugin system and based on OSGi.
Uses XML schemas (XSD) as the schema language for defining content types.
Includes 3000 unit tests.

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