Alfresco-2.0  2.0

• Generic section

  Generic criteria from QSOS version 1.6

  • Intrinsic durability
    • Maturity
      • Age
        • less than 3 months
        • if between 3 months and 3 years
        • after 3 years

        Score : 1/2
      • Stability
        • Unstable software with numerous releases or patches generating side effects
        • Stabilized production release existing but old. Difficulties to stabilize developpement releases
        • Stabilized software. Releases provide bug fixes corrections but mainly new functionalities

        Stabilized project with active community for bug reports and corrections .

        Score : 2/2
      • History, known problems
        • Software knows several problems which can be prohibitive
        • No know major problem or crisis
        • History of good management of crisis situations

        Score : 1/2
      • Fork probability, source of Forking
        • Software is very likely to be forked in the future
        • Software comes from a fork but has very few chances of being forked in the future
        • Software has very little chance of being forked. It does not come from a fork either

        Score : 2/2
    • Adoption
      • Popularity (related to: general public, niche, ...)
        • Very few users identified
        • Detectable use on Internet
        • Numerous users, numerous references

        alfresco has few customers in different branch of industry like Financial, Government, Education etc... http://www.alfresco.com/customers/

        Score : 2/2
      • References
        • None
        • Few refences, non critical usages
        • Often implemented for critical applications

        http://www.alfresco.com/customers/

        Score : 1/2
      • Contributing Community
        • No community or without real activity (forum, mailing list, ...)
        • Existing community with a notable activity
        • Strong community: big activity on forums, numerous contributors and advocates

        Strong activity for the community a wiki, forum, forge and blogs are provided

        Score : 2/2
      • books
        • No book about the software
        • Less than 5 books about the software are available
        • More than 5 books about software are available, in several languages

        http://www.amazon.fr/Alfresco-Enterprise-Content-Management-Implementation/dp/1904811116/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/171-5230348-4250656?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1180949051&sr=8-1

        Score : 1/2
    • Development leadership
      • Leading team
        • 1 to 2 individuals involved, not clearly identified
        • Between 2 and 5 independent people
        • More than 5 people

        Founders are former managers of Business Objects and Documentum . Core developers are identifiable on the forums

        Score : 2/2
      • Management style
        • Complete dictatorship
        • Enlightened despotism
        • Council of architects with identified leader (e.g: KDE)

        Identified roadmap, can evoluate with due to costumer request.

        Score : 2/2
    • Activity
      • Developers, identification, turnover
        • Less than 3 developers, not clearly identified
        • Between 4 and 7 developers, or more unidentified developers with important turnover
        • More than 7 developers, very stable team

        http://www.alfresco.com/about/people/

        Score : 2/2
      • Activity on bugs
        • Slow reactivity in forum or on mailing list, or nothing regarding bug fixes in releases note
        • Detectable activity but without process clearly exposed, loing reaction/resolution time
        • Strong reactivity based on roles and tasks assignment

        Tools provided; jira for bug reports and issues and forums for discussions regarding functionalities : Jira: http://issues.alfresco.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa Forum: http://forums.alfresco.com/

        Score : 2/2
      • Activity on functionalities
        • No or few new functionalities
        • Evolution of the product driven by the core team or by user's request without any clearly explained process
        • Tool(s) to manage feature requests, strong interaction with roadmap

        Jira: http://issues.alfresco.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa Forum: http://forums.alfresco.com/

        Score : 2/2
      • Activity on releases
        • Very weak activity on both production and development releases
        • Activity on production and developmenet releases. Frequent minor releases (bug fixes)
        • Important activity with frequent minor releases (bugs fixes) and planned major releases relating to the roadmap forcast

        Major releases planned and displayed on the roadmap . Minor releases reserved for enterprise version.

        Score : 1/2
  • Industrialized solution
    • Independence of developments
      • Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single company
      • 60% maximum
      • 20% maximum

      Score : 0/2
    • Services
      • Training
        • No offer of training identified
        • Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one language or is provided by a single contractor
        • Rich offers provided by several contractors, in serveral languages and split into modules of gradual levels

        Several module courses are provided in several langage and several contries http://www.alfresco.com/services/training/

        Score : 2/2
      • Support
        • No offer of support except via public forums and mailing lists
        • Offer exists but is provided by a single contractor without strong commitment quality of services
        • Multiple service providers with strong commitment (e.g: guaranteed resolution time)

        Two types of support provided Gold and Platinium with different level http://www.alfresco.com/services/support/

        Score : 2/2
      • Consulting
        • No offer of consulting service
        • Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one language or is provided by a single contractor
        • Consulting services provided by different contractors in serveral languages

        http://www.alfresco.com/services/consulting/

        Score : 1/2
    • Documentation
      • No user documentation
      • Documentation exists but shifted in time, is restricted to one language or is poorly detailed
      • Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ...)

      Forum :http://forums.alfresco.com/ Wiki :http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Main_Page are provided.

      Score : 2/2
    • Quality Assurance
      • Quality Assurance
        • No QA process
        • Identifies QA process but not much formalized and with no tool
        • Automatic testing process included in code's life-cycle with publication of results

        http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Qa_test_plan

        Score : 2/2
      • Tools
        • No bug or feature request management tool
        • Standard tools provided (for instance by a hosting forge) but poorly used
        • Very active use of tools for roles/tasks allocation and progress monitoring

        Jira provided with roles/tasks assignement and progress monitoring .

        Score : 2/2
    • Packaging
      • Source
        • Software can't be installed from source without lot of work
        • Installation from source is limited and depends on very strict conditions (OS, arch, lib, ...)
        • Installation from source is easy

        A zipped war and a bundle war with Tomcat are provided . it is a Java/J2EE architecture easy to deploy, it does not depend on the Operating System.

        Score : 2/2
      • Debian
        • The software is not packaged for Debian
        • A Debian package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • The software is packaged in the distribution

        Score : 0/2
      • FreeBSD
        • The software is not packaged for FreeBSD
        • A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • A official port exists in FreeBSD

        Score : 0/2
      • HP-UX
        • The software is not packaged for HP-UX
        • A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • A stable package is provided for HP-UX

        Score : 0/2
      • MacOSX
        • The software is not packaged for MacOSX
        • A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • The software is packaged in the distribution

        Score : 0/2
      • Mandriva
        • The software is not packaged for Mandriva
        • A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • The software is packaged in the distribution

        Score : 0/2
      • NetBSD
        • The software is not packaged for NetBSD
        • A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • A official port exists in NetBSD

        Score : 0/2
      • OpenBSD
        • The software is not packaged for OpenBSD
        • A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • A official port exists in OpenBSD

        Score : 0/2
      • RedHat
        • The software is not packaged for RedHat/Fedora
        • A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • The software is packaged in the distribution

        Score : 0/2
      • Solaris
        • The software is not packaged for Solaris
        • A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support (e.g: SunFreeware.com )
        • The software is supported by Sun for Solaris

        Score : 0/2
      • SuSE
        • The software is not packaged for SuSE
        • A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support
        • The software is packaged in the distribution

        Score : 0/2
      • Windows
        • The project can't be installed on Windows
        • A package exists but it is limited or has important issues or just cover some specific Windows release (e.g: Windows2000 and WindowsXP)
        • Windows is full supported and a package is provided

        http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=157460&release_id=488010

        Score : 2/2
  • Exploitability
    • Ease of use, ergonomics
      • Difficult to use, requires an in depth knowledge of the software functionality
      • Austere and very technical ergonomics
      • GUI including help functions and elaborated ergonomics

      A module is provided to customize the web UI, and changes can also be made by creating template by using the Freemarker langage.

      Score : 2/2
    • Administration / Monitoring
      • No administrative or monitoring functionalities
      • Existing, functionalities but uncomplete and or need improvement
      • Complete and easy-to-use administration and monitoring functionalities. Possible integration with external tools (e.g: SNMP, syslog, ...)

      With the version bundled with Jboss AS we can use the JMX console, to administrate MBeans . Repository can be imported / exported via an admin console , and these actions can be scheduled .

      Score : 1/2
  • Technical adaptability
    • Modularity
      • Monolithic software
      • Presence of hight level modules allowing a first level of software adaptation
      • Modular conception, allowing easy adaptation of the software by selecting or creating modules

      Score : 2/2
    • Code modification
      • Everything by hand
      • Recompilation possible but complex without any tools or documentation
      • Recompilation with tools (e.g: make, ANT, ...) and documentation provided

      Ant scripts , supplied documentation .

      Score : 2/2
    • Code extension
      • Any modification requires code recompilation
      • Architecture designed for static extension but requires recompilation
      • Principle of plugin, architecture designed for dynamic extension without recompilation

      Most extensions can be done by modifying XML configuration files . More extensive modifications will need recompilation .

      Score : 2/2
  • Strategy
    • License
      • Permissiveness (only if user wants to become owner of code)
        • Very strict license, like GPL
        • Moderate permissive license located between both extremes (GPL and BSD) dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, company, ...) or their activities
        • Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses

        alfresco2.0 is under GNU GPL with FLOSS Exception (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Open_Source_Licensing )

        Score : 0/2
      • Protection against proprietary forks
        • Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses
        • Moderate permissive license located between both extremes (GPL and BSD), dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, company, ...) or their activies
        • Very strict license, like GPL

        Score : 1/2
    • Copyright owners
      • Rights held by a few individuals or entities, making it easier to change the license
      • Rights held by numerous individuals owning the code in a homogeneous way, making relicense very difficult
      • Rights held by a legal entity in whom the community trusts (e.g: FSF or ASF)

      Rights held by Alfresco.

      Score : 0/2
    • Modification of source code
      • No pratical way to propose code modification
      • Tools provided to access and modify code (like CVS or SVN) but not really used to develop the software
      • The code modification process is well defined, exposed and respected, based on roles assignment

      http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Source_Code

      Score : 2/2
    • Roadmap
      • No published roadmap
      • Existing roadmap without planning
      • Versionned roadmap, with planning and measure of delays

      Raodmap clearly detailed: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap

      Score : 2/2
    • Sponsor
      • Software has no sponsor, the core team is not paid
      • Software has an unique sponsor who might determine its strategy
      • Software is sponsored by industry

      core team paid by Alfresco

      Score : 1/2
    • Strategical independence
      • No detectable strategy or strong dependency on one unique actor(person, company,sponsor)
      • Strategical vision shared with several other free and open source projects but without strong commitment from copyrights owners
      • Strong independence of the code team, legal entity holding rights, strong involvement in the standardization process

      Integration with others Open Source projects : JBoss AS, Tomcat, Apache Myfaces. Uses of standars like JCR170

      Score : 1/2

• Document content management

  this section describe how the application manage document

  • Mime Type supported
    • text formats
      • HTML files
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        HTML files can be directly created via a basic inline editor ( TinyMCE)

        Score : 2/2
      • RTF (Rich Text Format)
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • CSV
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • XML files
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
    • Office Suite
      • Opendocument files
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • MS Office files
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • PDF files
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
    • picture formats
      • common file format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        png and PIXmap, Bitmap, jpeg

        Score : 1/2
      • common vectorial format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        SVG

        Score : 2/2
      • commercial formats
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        AUTOCAD Drawing ...

        Score : 2/2
    • Video Formats
      • MPEG Format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4 fully supported, Quicktime

        Score : 2/2
      • AVI Format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • Dvix Format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 0/2
    • Audio Formats
      • MP3 Format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • Wav Format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 2/2
      • Ogg Format
        • not supported
        • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
        • fully supported

        Score : 0/2
  • File Conversion
    • Text format
      • not supported
      • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
      • fully supported

      transformation from Text format ( .odt, .doc, .txt) to PDF using pdfbox .

      Score : 2/2
    • Picture Format (jpg, png, bpm, gif)
      • not supported
      • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
      • fully supported

      ImageMagick is integrated to convert pictures to GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD...

      Score : 2/2
    • Audio Format
      • Feature is not supported
      • Feature is partialy supported
      • Feature is supported

      Score : 0/2
    • Video Format
      • Feature is not supported
      • Feature is partialy supported
      • Feature is supported

      Score : 0/2
  • File Manipulation
    • Compressed File Browsing
      • ZIP files
        • The engine see zip file as opaque binary
        • The engine can browse zip archive with limitation (need of a specific action from the use, content not indexed, no keyword can by attached to its content).
        • Zip archive are seen like common folder.

        Score : 0/2
      • RAR files
        • The engine see rar file as opaque binary
        • The engine can browse rar archive with limitation (need of a specific action from the use, content not indexed, no keyword can by attached to its content).
        • Rar archive are seen like common folder.

        Score : 0/2
      • TAR files
        • The engine see tar file as opaque binary
        • The engine can browse tar archive with limitation (need of a specific action from the use, content not indexed, no keyword can by attached to its content).
        • Tarball archive are seen like common folder.

        Score : 0/2
    • Preview creation
      • Picture preview
        • The software can't create picture preview
        • The software create picture preview for all the major formats (jpg, png, bmp, gif)
        • The software can create preview for more than 10 pictures formats

        Score : 0/2
      • OpenOffice files preview
        • The feature doesn't exist
        • Work fine for at last odt files
        • Work fine for the majority of the formats

        Score : 0/2
      • MS Office files preview
        • The feature doesn't exist
        • Work fine for at last doc files
        • Work fine for the majority of the formats

        Score : 0/2
      • Video preview
        • The feature doesn't exist
        • The software doesn't support the majority of the files
        • The software can create preview for a large amount of files

        Score : 0/2
      • Audio files preview
        • The feature doesn't exist
        • Work fine for at last odt files
        • Work fine for the majority of the formats

        Score : 0/2

• Web content management

  this section describe how the application manage web page

  • Blog
    • The feature doesn't exist
    • Work fine for at last odt files
    • Work fine for the majority of the formats

    Alfresco provides a WCM module to manage web site, adding, deleting, web project.. Also "Blog Spaces" can be created allowing users to post, categorize, subscribe via RSS and comment on posts.

    Score : 2/2
  • Support for new content or update notifications
    • recent changes advertised on the web interface
      • No such features
      • recent changes advertised according to the today's date
      • recent changes advertised only changes that happened since user's last visit

      Custom freemarker dashlets can be added on the dashboard allowing to be notified of recent changes .

      Score : 2/2
    • support for other notifications media
      • This feature doesn't exist
      • The feature exists for one communication media
      • This feature exists for several media: e.mail, and IM for instance

      RSS, email notification are available but not IM.

      Score : 2/2

• Common Service

  common services betwen ECM an Document managment

  • Support for search
    • Search Engine feature
      • No search engine available
      • Searches are limited (to filename, metadata or text content for instance)
      • Searches are feasable through most of the media content and the metadata

      search can be done using Lucene , Xpath and Opensearch(Execution of searches is supported via HTTP requests and responses). Search is possible on content metadata as well as full text search .

      Score : 2/2
    • Search API for more detailed results in the contents and their meta-data
      • This feature doesn't exist
      • The feature exist but is limited.
      • This feature is fully powered

      API provided for lucene and for JSR 170 for the content repository . (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search )

      Score : 2/2
  • Plugins, pluginability, built-in objects, and page templates
    • plugin ability
      • monolitic not pluggable
      • modular plugable but plugin not provided
      • modular plugins provided

      Many plugins exist on the forge http://forge.alfresco.com/softwaremap/trove_list.php divided in numerous sections like Metadata Extractors ...

      Score : 1/2
    • XML/RPC Remote API
      • No such feature
      • poor API
      • rich API

      Score : 0/2
    • web service plugin
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      many webservices available e.g for repository access and for authentication ( http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Content_Management_Web_Service.) many web plugins downloadable from forge http://forge.alfresco.com/ .

      Score : 2/2
    • builtin objects or plugins
      • Calendars and Calendars events
        • No such feature
        • partially or poorly implemented
        • well done

        an additional module exists based on AJAX technology. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxcalendar/

        Score : 0/2
      • polls and vote editing and publishing
        • No such feature
        • partially or poorly implemented
        • well done

        This workflow is not present by default but can be added thanks to JBPM.

        Score : 2/2
      • photo albums editing and publishing
        • No such feature
        • partially or poorly implemented
        • well done

        Score : 0/2
      • slide show editing and launching within the internet browser
        • No such feature
        • partially or poorly implemented
        • well done

        Score : 0/2
  • On line version control
    • online access to each pages/docs (of fully supported media) history/versioning
      • No history/versioning
      • limited number of document revisions
      • unlimited number of document revisions

      Score : 2/2
    • online supports for version differencing diff and retrieving prior versions.
      • No diff feature
      • Revision Diffs with the latest
      • Revision Diffs with the all

      Score : 0/2
    • online supports for retrieving/rollbacking to prior versions.
      • No rollback feature
      • rollback to the latest
      • rollback to all

      Score : 2/2
  • Access Points
    • Web
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      Score : 2/2
    • FTP
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      Score : 2/2
    • Webdav
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      Score : 2/2
    • CIFS
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      Score : 2/2
    • Aggregated Feeds
      • No such feature
      • RSS OR ATOM
      • RSS AND ATOM

      Score : 2/2
    • Web Services
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Web_Service

      Score : 1/2
    • Servlet
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      Many servlets allow HTTP acces to repository actions ( e.g : download content , execute templates or scripts , executing 'approve' and 'reject' workflow commands on a Node , ...)

      Score : 2/2

• Work Process

  Description of the internal work proces

  • Edition tools
    • Journalised Changes
      • No revision control system exist.
      • Every saved document are archived. Go back to an old revision need an important amount of work.
      • Every change done with the internal editor are logged. It's easy to come back to an old revision of the document from another user.

      Score : 2/2
    • Standalone edition tools
      • In oder to edit a document the user use the official tool.
      • It's possible to use a remote stand alone tool to edit documents.
      • All common feature are supported by a last one stand alone tool.

      Can be done with OpenOffice and Microsoft Office.

      Score : 1/2
  • Workflow
    • Lock
      • The feature doesn't exist
      • The feature just exists, an administrator can quickly unlock a file
      • The feature exist, administrator can quickly unlock a file and a timeout system exists to unlock file after a certain amount of time.

      Score : 1/2
    • step by step workflow
      • The feature doesn't exist
      • The feature just exist
      • This feature is fully powered

      Score : 2/2
    • BPEL support
      • The feature doesn't exist
      • The feature just exist
      • This feature is fully powered

      Workflow desigend with JPDL JBPM can easely be added to Alfresco, and documentation already exist and well done .

      Score : 2/2
  • Meta data
    Meta data are infromation related to a document like (author, copyright holder, ...)

    • Key word support
      • Can't add specific key words
      • Key word can be added but with limitation: limited list, no easy to way extend the list
      • key words easily added and features are easily extended

      Metadata can be modified through the GUI . Aspects can be dynamically applied to documents to add metadata . custom metadata can be defined by extending the content model .

      Score : 2/2
    • Hierarchical Classification
      • This feature doesn't exist
      • The feature exist but is limited.
      • A new document can quickly be registered in the hierarchy

      Hierarchical Classification is easy : classification by user workspace, categories, and folders.

      Score : 2/2

• Architecture

  • Security
    • Authentification Backend
      • LDAP
        • No LDAP based authentification availble
        • LDAP availble but limited (e.g: group mapping limited, etc)
        • LDAP is one of the recommended authentification backend

        Connector for OpenLdap and Active Directory available .

        Score : 2/2
      • Active Directory
        • No Active Directory based authentification availble
        • Active Directory availble but limited (e.g: group mapping limited, etc)
        • Active Directory is one of the recommended authentification backend

        Score : 2/2
      • data base
        • No data base base authentification availble
        • Data base availble but limited (e.g: group mapping limited, etc)
        • Data base is one of the recommended authentification backend

        Score : 2/2
    • Signature
      • Feature not supported
      • Fetautre partialy supported
      • Feature fully supported

      Score : 0/2
    • Digital watermarking
      • Feature not supported
      • Fetautre partialy supported
      • Feature fully supported

      Score : 0/2
    • DRM
      • The feature doesn't exist
      • Fetautre partialy supported
      • Feature fully supported

      Score : 0/2
    • SSL
      • The feature doesn't exist
      • Fetautre partialy supported
      • Feature is fully supported

      With Apache mod_ssl to access the web client via https .

      Score : 0/2
  • Storage
    • File System
      • Feature is not supported
      • Feature is partialy supported
      • Feature is fully supported

      Implement the JSR 170 for the content repository .

      Score : 2/2
    • Data Base
      • Feature is not supported
      • Feature is partialy supported
      • Feature is fully supported

      Any database supported by Hibernate, including: MySQL, PostgreSQL , Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, ...

      Score : 2/2
    • Data Warehouse
      • Feature is not supported
      • Feature is partialy supported
      • Feature is fully supported

      Score : 2/2
  • Clustering
    • Multisite architecure
      • Application is not designed to support Multisite architecure
      • Can be done with a third party
      • Application supports Multisite architecure

      This functionnality can be achieved by using Tomcat's or Jboss native clustering capabilities .

      Score : 1/2
    • Load balancing
      • Application is not designed to support Load balancing
      • Can be done with a third party
      • Application supports Load balancing

      Provided by apache mod_JK .

      Score : 1/2
    • Fail over
      • Application is not designed to support fail over
      • Can be done with a third party
      • Application supports fail over

      Provided by apache mod_JK .

      Score : 1/2
    • Repository Replication
      • Application is not designed to support Repository replication
      • Can be done with a third party
      • Application supports Repository replication

      Score : 2/2
    • Index Replication
      • Application is not designed to support Index replication
      • Can be done with a third party
      • Application supports Index replication

      Score : 2/2
  • Administration
    • Rights
      • User's rights
        • Feature is not supported
        • Feature is partialy supported
        • Feature is supported

        An administration console is available to handle user, group, rights .

        Score : 2/2
      • Group's rights
        • Feature is not supported
        • Feature is partialy supported
        • Feature is supported

        Possibility to create, and affect rights to new groups

        Score : 2/2
      • Role
        • The feature doesn't exist
        • The feature exists but is limited
        • The Feature is available or can easily be simulated thanks to a powerful group system

        Several predefined roles ( contributor , editor ... ) defining a combination of rights : read , write , create , delete , checkin , checkout ...

        Score : 2/2

• Web compatibility

  all this section was validated thanks to http://validator.w3.org

  • Standards
    • HTML
      • Page not valid (parse errors)
      • Page not valid with important errors (encoding mismatch)
      • Page valid, or with minor errors (missing "alt" attribute, use of unknow attribute)

      Score : 2/2
    • XHTML
      • Page not valid (parse errors)
      • Page not valid with important errors (encoding mismatch)
      • Page valid, or with minor errors (missing "alt" attribute, use of unknow attribute)

      Score : 0/2
    • CSS
      • CSS doesn't or no valid not valide (parse errors)
      • CSS not valid with important errors (encoding mismatch)
      • CSS valid, or with minor errors (missing "alt" attribute, use of unknow attribute)

      Score : 2/2
  • Best Practices
    • Table Positioning
      • systematically, too much used
      • not too much used
      • html tables are not used for layout/positioning

      Score : 1/2
    • Frame use
      • systematically, too much used
      • frame are rarely used
      • frame are not used

      Score : 2/2
    • iFrame use
      • systematically, too much used
      • iframe are rarely used
      • iframe are not used

      Score : 2/2
    • css designed for printout
      • no
      • yes, but print-outs are not well rendered for a few use cases.
      • yes

      Score : 2/2
  • Supported Browsers
    • Mozilla and Firefox
      • not supported at all
      • not officially supported, but works ok or good enough.
      • supported and advised browser

      A plugin for Firefox also exist for Drag and Drop .

      Score : 2/2
    • Konqueror
      • not supported at all
      • not officially supported, but works ok or good enough.
      • supported and advised browser

      Score : 1/2
    • MSIE
      • not supported at all
      • not officially supported, but works ok or good enough.
      • supported and advised browser

      Score : 2/2
    • Safari
      • not supported at all
      • not officially supported, but works ok or good enough.
      • supported and advised browser

      Score : 1/2
    • legacy browsers
      • not supported at all
      • not officially supported, but works ok or good enough.
      • supported and advised browser

      Score : 1/2
  • Required enablings
    • Javascript required
      • The interface makes no use of javascript, and thus, does not need javascript to run at full flavor and speed
      • The interface makes use of javascript but can properly function without it.
      • Javascript is necessary to use the interface (beacuse it's AJAX based for instance).

      Score : 0/2
    • a Java plugin is required
      • The interface does not contains any applet, and thus, does not need java to run at full flavor and speed
      • The interface makes use of applet(s) but can properly function without it.
      • A Java plugin is necessary to use the interface, the applets are key players in it.

      Score : 0/2
    • a SVG plugin is required
      • The interface does not contains any SVG graph, and thus, does not need any SVG plugin to run at full flavor and speed
      • The interface makes use of SVG but can properly function without it.
      • A SVG plugin is necessary to use the interface, the SVG graph are part of key features of the interface.

      Score : 0/2
    • a flash plugin is required
      • The interface does not contains any flash graph, and thus, does not need any flash plugin to run at full flavor and speed
      • The interface makes use of flash but can properly function without it.
      • A flash plugin is necessary to use the interface, the interface is mainly made of flash.

      Score : 0/2
    • support for rss feed
      • This feature doesn't exist
      • The feature exists but is limited
      • This feature exists and feeds are tunable and/or atom feeds are available

      RSS generated via freemarker.

      Score : 2/2