First Nuxeo Developer Day - 1st Dec. 2008

What is it?

The Nuxeo Developer Day is the most important gathering of all the Nuxeo developers - creators of the framework or of its extensions, and applications developers on top of the platform. The event will take place during the prestigious Open World Forum in Paris, on 1st Dec. 2008.

Audience

The conference is primarily intended for technical people, such as developers, architects or technical project managers, that wish to learn both about the most recent and planned technical developments on the Nuxeo platform, and about recent achievements by their peers.

It will also be a unique opportunity for participants to connect with each other, and let new ideas and opportunities emerge from the conversation.

Main Goals

• Presenting and discussing the roadmap for the project

• Presenting significant user case studies

• Enlightening audience members about new or lesser known features of the platform

Registration

Attendance to the conference is free.

Because of limited room availability, we ask that you register beforehand by sending an email to devday@nuxeo.com.

Agenda

[9h]

• Welcome / coffee

[9h30]

• (15’) “Building a world-class ECM platform, the open source way”: Stefane Fermigier, Nuxeo

  How can one create and deliver enterprise-class software, worth tens of years of R&D, with minimal capital investment? Open source can help, as well as the right context and ecosystem. This first talk will highlight the experience gained in the 8 first years of Nuxeo, and how they were applied to the latest iteration of the Nuxeo Platform.

• (20’) “What’s new in Nuxeo 5.2?”: Thierry Delprat, Nuxeo

  Nuxeo 5.2, codenamed “Chicago”, will be released in Q4 2008. This talks will present the most important innovations included in this latest release.

• (20’) “The Nuxeo vision for 2009 and beyond”: Eric Barroca, Nuxeo

  The Nuxeo team is involved in 3 different cooperative R&D projects, as well as other internal or collaborative endeavors, which all aim at expanding the scope, performance and ease of use of the Nuxeo Platform, and to keep up with the ever changing needs of ECM in the face of Enterprise 2.0.

• (60’) Users / customers case studies

  • “SkinMuseum: a museum collection management software”: Nel Taurisson, Skinsoft

    At SKINSOFT, we dedicate in building a flexible framework ready to address any collection management business requirements on top of Nuxeo. SkinMuseum is a business application example based on our framework addressing the museum collection standards. One component of our framework is the ExtJS player. This talk will be the occasion to present it and announce its open source release.

  • “Tacola case study”: Sean Radford (Tacola)

  • “A case of success: EVA - Espacio Virtual de Aprendizaje (Virtual Learning Space)”: Antonio de las Nieves, Yerbabuena Software

    This case explains how the basic Nuxeo installation could be a functional solution for an enterprise:

    • Complete Document management issues (versioning, basic workflow…)
    • Desktop integration (liveedit, drag’n drop)
    • Data import through Nuxeo Shell.

    And how a little customization could be enough to cover their main needs.

• (15’) Pause

[11h45]

• (60’) “Standards and interoperability for ECM: JCR2, CMIS, etc.”: roundtable with: Eric Barroca (Nuxeo), Florent Guillaume (Nuxeo), John Newton (Alfresco), other people

  Interoperability is key to open source success in the enterprise applications field. Aside from the JCR (Java Content Repository) and its successor, JCR2, new standards or proposed standards are emerging, such as CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services), that promise true interoperability between proprietary (such as Documentum, Filenet or SharePoint) and open source (such as Nuxeo and Alfresco) ECM systems. Will this standards truly unlock information from their silos and enable ECM as the backbone for unstructured information in the enterprise? Participants of this roundtable, all of them involved in various standardization efforts, will present and discuss the pros and cons of the various approaches.

[13h]

Lunch

[14h]

• Technical talks: Backend

  • (20’) “Nuxeo Runtime 2: OSGi, Glassfish support, etc”: Bogdan Stefanescu, Nuxeo

    Nuxeo Runtime, which enables to deploy Nuxeo’s component-oriented architecture both in server and desktop applications, is evolving alongside the Java EE and OSGi technologies that it leverages. This talk will introduce recent and future works on Nuxeo Runtime: Glassfish support, OSGi support improvement, dependency injection, etc.

  • (20’) “Nuxeo Core 2 and the new native SQL Repository”: Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo

    Content repositories allow you to store simple files, documents with metadata, or even complex documents with structured metadata, and to work with them in various ways. This talk will describe the Nuxeo Core content management engine, and how it builds on standards like JCR 2 and CMIS to provide high-level features to end-users. We will show how Nuxeo Core uses the above standards to provide efficient storage of high volumes of structured or unstructured documents in a flexible manner, using either a JCR or a transparent SQL backend. The architecture and benefits of this new backend will also be presented in an interactive manner.

• Technical talks: Frontend

  • (30’) “Nuxeo WebEngine: a practical introduction”: Bogdan Stefanescu, Nuxeo

    This tutorial will introduce the main concepts behind Nuxeo WebEngine, a new agile Web framework recently introduced by Nuxeo and present interactively how one can quickly develop a simple application.

  • (30’) “Nuxeo Themes”: Jean-Marc Orliaguet, Chalmers University

    NXThemes is a point-and-click theme editor for the Nuxeo platform. This presentation will go through the different features of the editor that are relevant to site developers (the style editor, the layout editor, web fragments, web widgets, theme management, etc). Special focus will be given to rapid development possibilities when using the editor together with the Nuxeo Web Engine. More technical issues will be addressed too.

  • (20’) “Nuxeo and OpenSocial”: Damien Metzler, Leroy Merlin

    For several years, portal applications have been trying to resolve all the integration problematics of the enterprise: top-down communication, collaboration, dashboards, etc. In the J2EE world, the JSR-168 (portlets) has tried to formalize what a portal should be, but it failed to give enterprise architects agility and loose coupling between application. Today, Web 2.0 has leverage the concept of mashup website with the two leaders : NetVibes an iGoogle. On the other hand, social applications like Facebook or Linked In are gaining more and more success. This lead us think that it could be an original approach to build a full enterprise content based open social portal. We will show how Web Engine gave us the ability to control all the Web 2.0 we needed, and how we integrated it with the Shindig Open Social server for the gadget Rendering part.

• (15’) Pause

[16h30]

• More frontend:

  • (20’) “RIA front-ends: Flex, GWT integration”: Thierry Delprat, Laurent Doguin, Nuxeo

    RIA (Rich Internet Applications), provide new and richer user experience for web applications. Several approaches are proposed by various vendors and open source projects, and Nuxeo is mostly agnostic in this respect, by providing appropriate data to RIA front-ends using simple protocols such as JSON. This talk will present how two RIA technologies have been recently used on Nuxeo projects, Adobe’s Flex and Google’s GWT (Google Web Toolkit).

  • (20’) “The Nuxeo RCP platform”: Sun Tan, Nuxeo

    Nuxeo RCP is a rich client for ECM applications, used to provide the highest possible productivity to users such as AFP’s or PA’s journalists. This talk will introduce the technology behind Nuxeo RCP, Eclipse Apogee, an Eclipse Foundation project lead by Nuxeo, and showcase its use in recent customers projects.

  • (10’) “Nuxeo eRCP: access your content from your mobile phone”: Daniel Téllez, Yerbabuena

    Presentation of first draft of eRCP, a Nuxeo component to increase ubiquity of media managed through Nuxeo 5. Architecture, first snapshots and use cases.

  • (10’) “The Scribo project: towards semantic ECM”: (speaker TBD)

    SCRIBO (Semi-automatic and Collaborative Retrieval of Information Based on Ontologies) is a two year cooperative R&D project, jointly carried out by Nuxeo, XWiki, Proxem, Tagmatica, AFP, Mandriva and several university and research institutes laboratories. It will develop algorithms and collaborative tools to extract knowledge from texts and images and to semi-automatically annotate documents. It will provide new components that enable a semantic and Enterprise 2.0 approach to ECM.

• (30’) Final Q/A and roundtable

[18h]

Speakers

Eric Barroca (Nuxeo): Eric is the CEO of Nuxeo. He has been working on the ECM and open-source markets for the past 10 years, designing and leading critical content-centric projects for highly demanding organizations in the Defense and press sectors. He’s is an expert of both the ECM and the business-oriented open source worlds. His previous speaking engagements include talks at the JBossWorld 2006, Documation UK 2007, as well as all the Nuxeo events.

Thierry Delprat (Nuxeo): Thierry is the CTO of Nuxeo and the lead architect of the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform. His previous speaking engagements include talks at JBoss World in 2006.

Laurent Doguin (Nuxeo): Laurent is a Nuxeo developer, leader of the Flex integration effort.

Stefane Fermigier, PhD, (Nuxeo): Stefane is the founder and chairman of Nuxeo. With 10 years business experience in the field of open source, he has given tens of talks and lectures around the world about open source business models and ecosystems, agile development methodologies and Nuxeo technologies.

Florent Guillaume, M.Sc. (Nuxeo): Florent is the head of R&D of Nuxeo, and one of the architects of the Nuxeo Platform. He is the main architect of Nuxeo Core 2 and the Nuxeo SQL repository, and manages several R&D programs within Nuxeo. His speaking experience include talks at many conferences, including JavaOne and Devoxx (formerly JavaPolis).

Damien Metzler (Leroy Merlin): software engineer in charge of architecture / development within the IT department of the french business unit of Leroy Merlin (Adeo Group), leader on the french DIY market. Consultant from 2001 to 2007 when he joined Leroy Merlin, he has always been interested in the ECM world, first with Nuxeo CPS and recently with Nuxeo. He proposed Nuxeo to join the effort to build an Open Social based portal on top of Nuxeo Web Engine.

John Newton, BS, (Alfresco): John is the founder and CTO of Alfresco.

Antonio de las Nieves (Yerbabuena): Sales Manager and cofounder of Yerbabuena Software, working in consulting of ECM systems using Nuxeo 5, analyzing the market’s requirements to meet the objectives desired by organizations on their ECM projects. Experienced with other Open Source projects such as CPS, Moodle or SugarCRM. Software Engineer studies in the University of Málaga. Attended Documation 2008 (June) in Madrid, event focused on ECM solutions.

Jean-Marc Orliaguet, M.Sc, (Chalmers University): Jean-Marc is employed as a web developer at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has worked with web development since 1996, using since 2003 Zope-based Nuxeo CPS to which he has contributed a theme editor and portlet manager. More recently, he has been involved in the development of a theme renderer and theme editor for the new Java-based Nuxeo platform. He is also contributing to the Nuxeo WebEngine effort (web widgets, etc.).

Dr. Sean Radford, MBBS, M.Sc, (Tacola): Sean is the Managing Director of Tacola Limited, a UK based technology consultancy. Tacola Limited specialises in enterprise software and document management systems supporting businesses in the Telecommunications, Engineering, Construction, Healthcare, Finance and Insurance sectors. Sean, a doctor of medicine, has over 25 years of IT experience. is highly technical and an avid proponent of Java and Open Source technologies.

Bogdan Stefanescu (Nuxeo): Bogdan is one of the architects of the Nuxeo Platform, and the lead developer / architect of Nuxeo Runtime, Nuxeo Core, Nuxeo WebEngine and Nuxeo RCP. Bogdan’s previous speaking engagements include talks about Nuxeo RCP at EclipseCon 2006 in Santa Clara and about Nuxeo Runtime at Solutions Linux 2006 in Paris.

Sun Tan (Nuxeo): Sun is a developer of Nuxeo RCP and Eclipse Apogee. Sun’s speaking experience include a talk about Nuxeo RCP at the Eclipse Summit 2008 in Ludwigsburg.

Nel Taurisson (SkinSoft): Nel Taurisson is an R&D engineer at SKINSOFT, a young innovative research company.

Daniel Téllez (Yerbabuena): CTO and cofounder of Yerbabuena Software, currently working on consulting, integration and development of enterprise content management systems and applications. Software Engineer studies in the University of Málaga and experience in ECM projects coordination based on opensource platforms like CPS and Nuxeo 5. He recently gave a three days seminar about Nuxeo integration to vietnamese companies.