Nuxeo Releases Open Source ECM platform Nuxeo EP 5.0.0.GA

Nuxeo has just released the first stable version of Nuxeo EP 5.0, their ECM platform for web content management, document management, records management, collaboration, intranet portals and workflow using previously Zope technologies, and now Java EE 5, JBoss Seam and OSGi. Nuxeo EP is open source software, under a business-friendly license (EPL and/or LGPL), developed in the open and supported by Nuxeo SAS and third party system integrators and ISVs. Feature highlights for this release: Full document lifecycle, including versioning, check-in/check-out, etc.; Access rights management; Workflow, including document approval; Relations between documents; Audit trails; Drag'n'drop document management inside the web browser; and, Desktop and office suite integration using plugins for IE, Firefox and MSOffice. Technical highlights: Based on an "embeddable ECM core", Nuxeo Core, which can be embedded both in server-side applications like Nuxeo EP, and client-side like in the forthcoming Nuxeo RCP rich client for ECM: Based on Java EE 5 technologies: JSF, JCR (Java Content Repository), EJB3, JBoss Seam, jBPM, OSGi; Fully extensible using an extension points and plugin system; Nuxeo Runtime, very similar to the Eclipse plugin system and based on OSGi; Uses XML schemas (XSD) as the schema language for defining content types; and, Includes 3000 unit tests. http://www.nuxeo.org/