Nuxeo 5  1.M1

• 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

        Nuxeo 5 is the next release of Nuxeo CPS ( Collabaritive Portal Server )

        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

        Although it is quite young, Nuxeo 5 is stable. No major bugs.

        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

        The purpose of the transition from zope to java technologies (J2EE, OSGi) is to have an extensible framework. For more details for the transition http://www.nuxeo.com/en/java-switch/

        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

        Rights owned by Nuxeo SAS (french company)

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

        Nuxeo is one of the european leaders in the open source CMS market, numerous references and active collaboration with I.T consultants (cf. http://www.nuxeo.com/clients/)

        Score : 1/2
      • References
        • None
        • Few refences, non critical usages
        • Often implemented for critical applications

        http://www.nuxeo.com/clients Winner of the Red Herring price (http://www.neteco.com/71335-nuxeo-recompense-prix-red-herring.html)

        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

        Active community on CPS (former version of Nuxeo in Python/Zope technologies), a SVN is provided to centralize release and patch for bugs.

        Score : 1/2
      • 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

        Only white papers are availble : http://www.nuxeo.com/publications/

        Score : 0/2
    • Development leadership
      • Leading team
        • 1 to 2 individuals involved, not clearly identified
        • Between 2 and 5 independent people
        • More than 5 people

        The Nuxeo company is composed of 22 collaborators.

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

        All decision are taken by the lead team of Nuxeo

        Score : 1/2
    • 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

        The are about 13 devlopers and Nuxeo intend to recruit more.

        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

        JIRA is used to track bugs : http://jira.nuxeo.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa also a mailing list is provided .

        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 is available and a mailing list is also provided.

        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

        Before each official release, several milestones are available on Nuxeo website. nightly builds are also availables : http://svn.nuxeo.org/snapshots/

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

      The Nuxeo company employs 100% of core developpers.

      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

        Training offer exists http://www.nuxeo.com/offre/form/

        Score : 0/2
      • 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)

        http://www.nuxeo.com/offre/support/

        Score : 1/2
      • 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.nuxeo.com/offre/conseil/ and the collaboration of the IT consultants e.g (CapGemini, Unilog, ...)

        Score : 2/2
    • 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, ...)

      Only user and developer Documentations are available in english (no exploitation documentation). A Wiki is also available (http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/nuxeo/wiki/).

      Score : 1/2
    • 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

        Modules are managed via Maven, more than 3000 tests are implemented. Continuous Integration is not settled down yet.

        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 (http://jira.nuxeo.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa). A mailing-list is also available (ecm-checkins@lists.nuxeo.com). and for continuous integration http://hudson.nuxeo.org/

        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

      They intend to use maven to simplify build and deployment . 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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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
      • package is not available but The software is packaged in the distribution

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms.

      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

      AJAX technologies are available in the Web client (integrated with JSF/JBoss Seam). User dashboard can be modified by the engine creator.

      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, ...)

      As all Nuxeo components are deployed as MBean, they can be administred via the JBoss JMX Console

      Score : 2/2
  • 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

      Nuxeo is a modular framework, API are provided to extend the application with pluggable projects.

      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

      Technical documentation is provided, deployment can be done with Maven2.

      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

      Nuxeo has with several extenstion points, based on OSGi.

      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

        GNU LGPL licence / EPL . Latter can be linked to a non LGPL program without changing the licence.

        Score : 1/2
      • 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 owned by Nuxeo SAS (french company)

      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

      Eclipse installation and configuration procedure detailed (including ANT, Maven plugins, ...). http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/nuxeo

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

      http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/about/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

      Nuxeo SAS has IT partners : http://www.nuxeo.com/nuxeo/partenaires/

      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

      links with Eclipse Foundation, JBoss

      Score : 0/2

• 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

        Online editing via a remote editor.

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

        Online editing via a remote editor.

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

        Online editing via a remote editor.

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

        Online editing via a remote editor.

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

        Online editing via a remote application (e.g. OpenOffice.org).

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

        Online editing via a remote application (e.g Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org).

        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

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

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

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

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

      We can convert anything to anything thanks to the web browser who manage mimetype and allows to open the document with the dedicated application. Conversion to PDF is made by the OOo2 software, and can change the configuration to not use OOo.

      Score : 1/2
    • Picture Format (jpg, png, bpm, gif)
      • not supported
      • partialy (buggy or limited feature)
      • fully supported

      Score : 0/2
    • 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.

        We can configure extension points to have folder when we upload a Zip file

        Score : 1/2
      • 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

        PDF preview

        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

        PDF preview

        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

    This feature will be implemented in september 2007 in the Nuxeo EP 5.2

    Score : 0/2
  • 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

      This feature will be implemented in september 2007 in the Nuxeo EP 5.2

      Score : 0/2
    • 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

      Only email notification are avaible for now using JavaMail

      Score : 1/2

• 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

      NXQL engine (based on Lucène) for search engine to query nuxeo's repository. No searches available in multimedia content.

      Score : 1/2
    • 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: NXQL

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

      Nuxeo is a framework implementing pluggable projects. It also provides extention points (OSGi).

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

      API are provided to make easier the extension of the framework EJB3 remoting and SOAP API

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

      Nuxeo use SOAP communication to integrate with client applications like OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office or Web browsers.

      Score : 1/2
    • builtin objects or plugins
      • Calendars and Calendars events
        • No such feature
        • partially or poorly implemented
        • well done

        A Calendar is provided but not the events

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

        Score : 0/2
      • 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

      Possibility to have minor and major release.

      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 : 0/2
    • Webdav
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      This feature is planned : http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/about/roadmap/

      Score : 0/2
    • CIFS
      • No such feature
      • limited integration capabilities
      • good capabilities

      Score : 0/2
    • Aggregated Feeds
      • No such feature
      • RSS OR ATOM
      • RSS AND ATOM

      This feature is planned

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

      Nuxeo use SOAP communication to integrate with client applications like OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office or Web browsers.

      Score : 1/2

• 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.

      Changes are made by a remote standalone application e.g( openoffice) and the increment of releases can be made automatically.

      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.

      Integration with MSOffice and possibility to use Apogee RCP client.

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

      The document is locked when it is in use.

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

      the life cycle steps are configured in a XML extension point contributi The default life-cycle is very simple, but we can add more complex ones. By default Nuxeo5 supports Parallèle review, Serial review and approbabtion review.

      Score : 1/2
    • BPEL support
      • The feature doesn't exist
      • The feature just exist
      • This feature is fully powered

      JBPM-JPDL-3.2 implemented

      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

      Meta-data are defined by schemas. to add some new meta-data just add more schemas (or extend existing), bind them to document types and restart the server.The restart is needed to redefine the data structure

      Score : 1/2
    • Hierarchical Classification
      • This feature doesn't exist
      • The feature exist but is limited.
      • A new document can quickly be registered in the hierarchy

      Storage spaces are created in a hierachical way. Relations between documents can be declared.

      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

        A LDAP connector is provided to manage user's access.

        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

        A connector is provided to manage user's access.

        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

        JDBC connector provided

        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

      Possible to use Apache mod_ssl to access the web client via HTTPS.

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

      Java Content Repository (JSR 170) is available with the jackrabbit project.

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

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

      Score : 0/2
  • 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

      Possible to use Apache mod_JK .

      Score : 0/2
    • 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 : 0/2
    • Repository replication
      • Application is not designed to support Repository replication
      • Can be done with a third party
      • Application supports Repository replication

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

      Score : 1/2
  • Administration
    • Rights
      • User's rights
        • Feature is not supported
        • Feature is partialy supported
        • Feature is supported

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

        Predefined groups (member, administrator) defining combinations of rights.

        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

        Predefined groles defining combinations of rights (read, write, create, delete).

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

      Table positioning is used to implement online dynamic GUI modification.

      Score : 0/2
    • Frame use
      • systematically, too much used
      • frame are rarely used
      • frame are not used

      Score : 0/2
    • iFrame use
      • systematically, too much used
      • iframe are rarely used
      • iframe are not used

      Score : 0/2
    • css designed for printout
      • no
      • yes, but print-outs are not well rendered for a few use cases.
      • yes

      All GUI positionning is done via CSS.

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

      A plugin is provided for the 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

      A plugin is provided for the drag and drop .

      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
  • Best Practive
    • 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 : 2/2
    • 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

      Score : 2/2