Nuxeo, an open source platform for content-centric business applications

Nuxeo, an open source platform
for content-centric
business applications
Stéfane Fermigier, Nuxeo
Laurent Doguin, Nuxeo

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Nuxeo, the Company
• Providing an Open Source Content Management Platform for
Business Applications

• 11 years old, 40+ employees, 500+ customers, 5000+
installations

• Sells Nuxeo Connect, a Service Subscription providing added
value software and services

• Dual HQ Paris & Boston, VC backed

• Global Partner Network

• On the forefront of innovation, with a dedicated research lab
contributing to several industry initiatives, consortiums and open
source foundations (OW2, Eclipse, Apache, Systematic, Cap
Digital, PLOSS...)

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The Nuxeo Solution Portfolio
Life
Construction Publishing Government
Sciences
Vertical Marketplace
Solution Catalog
Applications
Correspondence Contracts Invoice Records
Management Management Processing Management

Studio
Customization &
Conﬁguration
Read-to-use Case
Document Digital Asset
Management
Applications Management Management
Framework
Support
with SLAs

Technical Content Application Platform
A packaged development framework for building content-centric Maintenance
Applications applications, is designed for java developers and architects. Patches & upgrades

Nuxeo Platform Technology Nuxeo Connect
Technology Complete set of components covering all aspects of ECM. Extensible Subscription
modular architecture designed for content application development

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The Nuxeo Platform

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Nuxeo Platform is
a set of building blocks

mainly ECM related

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Nuxeo Platform is
a set of building blocks
for deploying customized Content Applications

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What the Platform provides

 Extensible and conﬁgurable ECM services
(Document storage, workﬂow, indexing, security,
relation management, …)

 UI building blocks and frameworks
(Web, RIA, Mobile …)

 High level frameworks
(Nuxeo CAP, Nuxeo Case Management Framework …)

 Ready to use pre-packaged applications
(Nuxeo DM, Nuxeo DAM ...)

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What’s in it for me?
 For the Java developer
 A rich set Java services API for ECM features
 Support for several client technologies
 A plugin model, OSGi support (Eclipse Apricot)
 Unit testing framework
 For the system integrator
 An extensible Web Services API
 CMIS support
 OpenSocial

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Tools
 Build and assembly tools
 Maven based build
 nuxeo-distribution-tools
 Customization and development tools
 Nuxeo Studio (web based)
 Nuxeo IDE (Eclipse based)
 Testing tools
 Non-regression testing
 Performance testing

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The Nuxeo Content Repository

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Nuxeo Document

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Documents in Nuxeo
 In Nuxeo, a “Document” is not just a simple file
 One document = a set of fields
(String, Date, File, Complex types ...)
 Document types
 A document type is defined by XSD schemas
 Inheritance is supported
 Life cycle
 A document type is associated with a life cycle (ex:
draft, published, obsolete...)

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Documents in Nuxeo
 Facets can be used to qualify documents
(Folderish, Hidden, Commentable …)
 Facets can be associated
 With a schema
 With a Business Object adapter
 Mixins

Facets and Schemas can be added on a per-instance
basis

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Security
 Security in always on
 ACL-based default security policy
 Multiple-ACL support
 Ordered ACL support
 Grant / deny support
 ACL inheritance
 Additional pluggable security policies
 Implement custom security (ex: meta-data based)

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Other Core features
 Query system
 NXQL or CMISQL: SQL-like query support
− Keyword search
− Full-text search
 Reporting (using, e.g., BIRT)
 Versioning in Nuxeo
 Conﬁgurable versioning policy
 Conﬁgurable versioning storage

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Repository backend
 Nuxeo Visible Content Store (VCS)
 Dedicated native SQL storage
 Provides clean SQL mapping
(ie: usable by a DBA or a BI tool)
 Multiple database vendor support
(PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, H2, Derby)

Storage adapters
− Metadata and structure: SQL DB
− Binaries: Filesystem, SQL DB, S3 ...

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Advanced features
 Built for performance
 Lazy-loading, pre-fetching, cache, blob streaming...
 Transaction management
 Exposes JCA connector
 Support for operations and manual tx management
 Pluggable event system
 Efﬁcient storage
 Snapshotable, automatic deduplication…
 Support for hot backup and GC

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Nuxeo as a service platform

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Java API

All Nuxeo services are exposed via Java Interfaces

Access to services is simple
Framework.getService(ServiceInterface.class)

In addition you can also access the underlying
components
Framework.getRuntime().getComponent(name)

In Java EE servers, Java services can be exposed via RMI

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Service APIs
 Services can also be exposed via Web Services (with
different granularity)

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Content Oriented APIs
 Access Nuxeo Repository
 Via CMIS (uses Apache Chemistry)
 Via MS Windows SharePoint Services
 Via WebDAV

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Automation APIs
 Flexible and pluggable REST API

Contribute custom operation

Assemble custom chains via Studio / XML

Generic marshaling

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Using the Nuxeo Platform

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Nuxeo EP use cases
 Turn-key ECM applications (DM, DAM...)
 Pre-packaged application
 Add configuration via Nuxeo Studio
 Vertical or bespoke business ECM application
 Extension and configuration Nuxeo platform
 OEM or SI integration

Embedding Nuxeo Services in third party apps
 Configuration and Nuxeo service stack usage
 OEM or ISV providers

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Nuxeo on the Cloud

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Nuxeo on the Cloud
 VM deployment (IaaS)
 Leverage services like EC2 and S3, or OpenStack /
OpenNebula
 Java Cloud (PaaS)
 Leverage existing Java PaaS (ex: Cloudbees)
(issues about storage and dynamic plugin system)
 Pure OSGi deployment on Cloud (via JOnAS?)
 Requires Nuxeo to run in full OSGi Mode
 See the Compatible One project (OW2)

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Roadmap for 2012

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Nuxeo 2012 Roadmap
 Extend OSGi support for all platform
 Extend the subset that is already full OSGi
 Deploy Nuxeo as embedded OSGi app
 Provide support for Java EE 6
 CDI / JSF2
 Use Nuxeo Platform as a PaaS
 Work in progress on OSGi and CompatibleOne (OW2
project)

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Thanks!

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