jihed.trifi@atosorigin.com Jihed TRIFI en Nuxeo 5 1.M1 32 GNU LGPL www.nuxeo.com ECM framework www.nuxeo.org 1.7 cms Nuxeo5

Generic criteria from QSOS version 1.6 Intrinsic durability Maturity less than 3 months if between 3 months and 3 years after 3 years 1 Nuxeo 5 is the next release of Nuxeo CPS ( Collabaritive Portal Server ) 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 2 Although it is quite young, Nuxeo 5 is stable. No major bugs. Software knows several problems which can be prohibitive No know major problem or crisis History of good management of crisis situations 1 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/ 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 2 Rights owned by Nuxeo SAS (french company) Adoption by community and industry Very few users identified Detectable use on Internet Numerous users, numerous references 1 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/) None Few refences, non critical usages Often implemented for critical applications 1 http://www.nuxeo.com/clients Winner of the Red Herring price (http://www.neteco.com/71335-nuxeo-recompense-prix-red-herring.html) 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 1 Active community on CPS (former version of Nuxeo in Python/Zope technologies), a SVN is provided to centralize release and patch for bugs. 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 0 Only white papers are availble : http://www.nuxeo.com/publications/ Organisation and leadership of developments 1 to 2 individuals involved, not clearly identified Between 2 and 5 independent people More than 5 people 2 The Nuxeo company is composed of 22 collaborators. Complete dictatorship Enlightened despotism Council of architects with identified leader (e.g: KDE) 1 All decision are taken by the lead team of Nuxeo Activity of the project and around the software 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 2 The are about 13 devlopers and Nuxeo intend to recruit more. 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 2 JIRA is used to track bugs : http://jira.nuxeo.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa also a mailing list is provided . 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 2 JIRA is available and a mailing list is also provided. 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 2 Before each official release, several milestones are available on Nuxeo website. nightly builds are also availables : http://svn.nuxeo.org/snapshots/ Industrialization level of the project Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single company 60% maximum 20% maximum 0 The Nuxeo company employs 100% of core developpers. Services offering 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 0 Training offer exists http://www.nuxeo.com/offre/form/ 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) 1 http://www.nuxeo.com/offre/support/ 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 2 http://www.nuxeo.com/offre/conseil/ and the collaboration of the IT consultants e.g (CapGemini, Unilog, ...) 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, ...) 1 Only user and developer Documentations are available in english (no exploitation documentation). A Wiki is also available (http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/nuxeo/wiki/). Quality assurance process 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 2 Modules are managed via Maven, more than 3000 tests are implemented. Continuous Integration is not settled down yet. 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 2 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/ Packaging for various operating systems 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 2 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. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 0 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. 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 2 A package is not available but the installer works on all platforms. Exploitability level Difficult to use, requires an in depth knowledge of the software functionality Austere and very technical ergonomics GUI including help functions and elaborated ergonomics 2 AJAX technologies are available in the Web client (integrated with JSF/JBoss Seam). User dashboard can be modified by the engine creator. 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, ...) 2 As all Nuxeo components are deployed as MBean, they can be administred via the JBoss JMX Console Technical adaptability 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 2 Nuxeo is a modular framework, API are provided to extend the application with pluggable projects. Everything by hand Recompilation possible but complex without any tools or documentation Recompilation with tools (e.g: make, ANT, ...) and documentation provided 2 Technical documentation is provided, deployment can be done with Maven2. Any modification requires code recompilation Architecture designed for static extension but requires recompilation Principle of plugin, architecture designed for dynamic extension without recompilation 2 Nuxeo has with several extenstion points, based on OSGi. Project's strategy License 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 1 GNU LGPL licence / EPL . Latter can be linked to a non LGPL program without changing the licence. 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 1 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) 0 Rights owned by Nuxeo SAS (french company) 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 2 Eclipse installation and configuration procedure detailed (including ANT, Maven plugins, ...). http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/nuxeo No published roadmap Existing roadmap without planning Versionned roadmap, with planning and measure of delays 2 http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/about/roadmap/ 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 1 Nuxeo SAS has IT partners : http://www.nuxeo.com/nuxeo/partenaires/ 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 0 links with Eclipse Foundation, JBoss

this section describe how the application manage document Supported means that the internal engine is able to read or parse file content to create preview file or find key words not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported Online editing via a remote editor. 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported Online editing via a remote editor. 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported Online editing via a remote editor. 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported Online editing via a remote editor. 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported Online editing via a remote application (e.g. OpenOffice.org). 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported Online editing via a remote application (e.g Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org). 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 Format are: jpg, gif, png, bmp, tiff, xpm, not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 Format are: wmf, svg not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 Format are: psp (PaintShopPro), psd (Photopshop) not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 Format videos not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 Format videos not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 2 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. 1 not supported partialy (buggy or limited feature) fully supported 0 Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is supported 0 Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is supported 0 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 1 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. 0 tar.gz, tar.bz2 and tar.Z archives 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. 0 Please keep in mind that here we just evaluate the object creation (does it work or not). We ignore how the results are published (e.g: poor visiblity). 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 0 The feature doesn't exist Work fine for at last odt files Work fine for the majority of the formats PDF preview 0 The feature doesn't exist Work fine for at last doc files Work fine for the majority of the formats PDF preview 0 Please keep in mind that DRM protected file can't be load without official from its manifacturer. Because of this limitation, we prefere to ignore these files in this evaluation. Preview could be a little preview movie (e.g: in flash format) or just a picture. 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 0 The feature doesn't exist Work fine for at last odt files Work fine for the majority of the formats 0

this section describe how the application manage web page This feature will be implemented in september 2007 in the Nuxeo EP 5.2 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 0 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 0 Do detail the media in the comment section 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 1

common services betwen ECM an Document managment The metadata and media content support is to be detailed in the above metadata and mediasupport elements 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. 1 This feature doesn't exist The feature exist but is limited. This feature is fully powered API provided: NXQL 2 adequate software architecture for custom plugin creation, easy plugin interface for writing your own additions. Do detail in the comment section the supported plugin languages 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). 2 No such feature poor API rich API API are provided to make easier the extension of the framework EJB3 remoting and SOAP API 2 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. 1 No such feature partially or poorly implemented well done A Calendar is provided but not the events 2 No such feature partially or poorly implemented well done 0 No such feature partially or poorly implemented well done 0 No such feature partially or poorly implemented well done 0 The documents targeted by the version control are those listed as fully supported in the above "documentsupport" elements No history/versioning limited number of document revisions unlimited number of document revisions 2 No diff feature Revision Diffs with the latest Revision Diffs with the all 0 No rollback feature rollback to the latest rollback to all Possibility to have minor and major release. 2 Describe how we can connect to the repository No such feature limited integration capabilities good capabilities 2 No such feature limited integration capabilities good capabilities 0 No such feature limited integration capabilities good capabilities This feature is planned : http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/about/roadmap/ 0 No such feature limited integration capabilities good capabilities 0 No such feature RSS OR ATOM RSS AND ATOM This feature is planned 2 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. 1

Description of the internal work proces 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. 2 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. 2 Ability to lock file avoid data lost or synchronization issues 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. 1 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. 1 The feature doesn't exist The feature just exist This feature is fully powered JBPM-JPDL-3.2 implemented 2 Meta data are infromation related to a document like (author, copyright holder, ...) Metadata are all the specific key work that can be attached to a document 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 1 Ability to do a classication in a predesigned hierarchy 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. 2

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. 2 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. 2 Here we do not attach importance on supported data bases, please see the storage section 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 2 Is possible to create digital cypher (e.g: GNU PGP) Feature not supported Fetautre partialy supported Feature fully supported 0 Feature not supported Fetautre partialy supported Feature fully supported 0 The feature doesn't exist Fetautre partialy supported Feature fully supported 0 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. 2 Please keep in mind, that the score doesn't mean that an element is good or bad. e.g: a solution that doesn't use the filesystem for the data storage can be good. See: QSOS Method to get more details Can the solution use the file system to store data (files, description, ...). Please, descript the recommended environment. Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is fully supported Java Content Repository (JSR 170) is available with the jackrabbit project. 2 No data storage available. Please, descript the recommended environment. Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is fully supported 2 Can user create link to physical material like book or paper document? Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is fully supported 0 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 . 1 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 . 0 Application is not designed to support fail over Can be done with a third party Application supports fail over Provided by apache mod_JK . Thanks to cluster mode of the JBoss application server, or the cluster mode of the Tomcat server. 0 Application is not designed to support Repository replication Can be done with a third party Application supports Repository replication 1 Application is not designed to support Index replication Can be done with a third party Application supports Index replication 1 Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is supported 2 Feature is not supported Feature is partialy supported Feature is supported Predefined groups (member, administrator) defining combinations of rights. 2 Can we create a virtual user with specific rights and give his rights to phyical people (e.g: the role "backup administrator" read access on the data base) 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). 2

all this section was validated thanks to http://validator.w3.org http://validator.w3.org 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) 2 http://validator.w3.org 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) 2 http://validator.w3.org 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) 2 http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/bestwebdev.htmls html tables should not be used for layout/positioning, css is there to help. html tables are not used for layout/positioning not too much used systematically, too much used Table positioning is used to implement online dynamic GUI modification. 0 Frame use frame are not used frame are rarely used systematically, too much used 0 iFrame use iframe are not used iframe are rarely used systematically, too much used 0 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. 2 Supported Browser Firefox, please detail the supported version in the comment section 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. 2 Konqueror, please detail the supported version in the comment section not supported at all not officially supported, but works ok or good enough. supported and advised browser 1 MSIE, please detail the supported version in the comment section 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 . 2 Safarie, please detail the supported version in the comment section not supported at all not officially supported, but works ok or good enough. supported and advised browser 1 Legacy browser are browser outdated like MSIE4 and Netscape 4, please detail the supported version in the comment section. not supported at all not officially supported, but works ok or good enough. supported and advised browser 1 Browser required enablings: javascript, applet, SVG, and flash. Reminder: here, a higher score does not mean a better product nor the opposite, it really depends on your needs and non functional requirements. Is the browser javascript enabling required ? If the score is 1 or 2, do indicate in the comment section the required jvm version. If the score is 1, do detail. 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). 2 Does the browser needs a java plugin (to enable applet) ? If the score is 1 or 2, do indicate in the comment section the required jvm version. If the score is 1, do detail. 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. 0 Does the browser needs a SVG plugin ? If score is 1 or 2, do indicate in the comment section the required SVG version. If the score is 1, do detail. 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. 0 Does the browser needs a flash plugin ? If score is 1 or 2, do indicate in the comment section the required flash version. If the score is 1, do detail. 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. 0 Do detail the rss feed format/protocol in the comment section This feature doesn't exist The feature exists but is limited This feature exists and feeds are tunable and/or atom feeds are available 2