Archive for September, 2006

We today released (under the EPL and the LGPL) the version 1.0 of Nuxeo Runtime.

Nuxeo Runtime offers a coherent component model for Java applications based on OSGi that makes them runnable on any Java platform with virtually no modifications. Nuxeo Runtime also offers a flexible extension/plugin system for any Java / Java EE application.

We today released (under the EPL and the LGPL) the version 1.0 of Nuxeo Runtime.

The inception

The original idea was born when we were confronted with the problem of deploying several core components of Nuxeo ECM (our ECM platform) to several Java platforms. Our initial goal was to make Nuxeo Core run on JBossAS and Equinox without modification to avoid the burden of maintaining two separate branches of the components.

Working on this issue, we also quickly figured out that nothing like Eclipse extension points was available for Java EE and that … Read more

As you may have already seen on the web, we are announcing a big
transition for our ECM platform: we are switching from the Zope application server to the Java platform.

Nuxeo 5.0, successor of
CPS, will be entirely based on the Java platform. It benefits from modern
java technologies such as Java EE 5, JSF, JBoss SEAM, OSGi, etc. This transition started 8 month
ago, when we have begun to integrate Java component into CPS. We, then,
evaluated technologies from the java world, figured out that Java 5 was a
big improvement, made some tests and research and finally decided to go with
it for our next products.

This may be a big surprise for our long-term users and developers, but we
believe we have made the right choice. Furthermore, we are not abandoning
CPS, which will be supported for at least 3 years. We … Read more

The 0.2 version of Occitan (languedocian) has been uploaded. Thanks to Bruno
Gallart

A new spellchecker is also available Marathi (India)
This indian language is spoken by around 90 millions of people Wikipedia says

it has been a quite challenging work as from a word list in an encoding i
could not read on first load, i end up with ‘not-so-bad’ solution
Thanks to Hunspell, the
default engine of OOo 2.0.3, using UTF-8 is possible so the Marathi language
became beautifull to me (well, unfortunatelly only as a picture)
Using CTL linguistic options as well as a dedicated font (all is explained
in the readme file of the spellchecker), one can see that the spellchecker
is working even if there are some missing word.
The next step is creating the affix file and enrich the word list. Some
solutions are on the road though …

Thanks Priti D. Patil and … Read more

Now the OpenOffice.org conferences 2006 are closed and the normal life has taken its old rythm now. This article is only about to thank you all for making this year’s conferences a big event, quite like a family one.

Being prepared during several month by many persons on both OpenOffice.org and INSA Lyon side, my first thanks are coming to all those who helped us making it possible: Sophie, Marie-Jo, Jean-François and Charles from OpenOffice.org and Yves Condemine, Patrick Pollet, Cédric Grand, Anne Mouriquand from INSA. I am sure to forget many persons here, but I think that they will recognize themselves.

To help us keep the conferences in our mind, the kiberpipa team who did an extraordinary job, provides us the video archives of the conferences and offers to host your photos of the event.

Again, thanks to you all.

(Post originally written by Cedric Bosdonnat on the old … Read more

Thanks to Andras Timar from fsf.hu,
OOoWikipedia handles now magyar language.

OOoWikipedia is an OpenOffice.org extension that
allow you by highlighting any word in a text document to popup a browser that
connects directly to Wikipedia
ressource on it.

(Post originally written by Laurent Godard on the old Nuxeo blogs.)

I gotta admit I was wrong…

I recently tried out Pydev and
Pydev extensions on Eclipse 3.2 for my
Python and Zope
developments. Wouah !

I’ve been using these plugins for couple of weeks and I already can’t
switch to emacs anymore. I wouldn’t have believed It could have ever
happened. I’ve been using emacs for years and somehow refused to try
out any IDE for Python because I thought it wasn’t as crucial for
Python development as for other languages such as Java, C#, C++
etc….

I love this feeling. I mean when you find out a tool and are
wondering
how you’ve been living without it for so long that you can’t go back
to
the old one I’m in this case with emacs. I simply can’t
anymore. (Well, I could but you see what I mean)

Pydev really brings a lot.  I was surprised by the progresses … Read more

The word “triage” in programming has been around for a while, but seem to have gained popularity lately. What it is, is basically a new word for “bugprioritizing”, being easier to say and spell. But if we look at what the word comes from, we see that behind this lies a concept that is often forgotten in the usage.

“Triage” comes from french and means sorting, so nothing new there. Howerver, it comes to the programming world from the world of emergency health care, where it is used to allocate health care resources in emergencies, when there are more people needing care than there are health care available. In computers then, it becomes a system of allocating programming time to bugs, when there are not enough programmers to fix all the bugs.

How should this be done? Well, first of all, we of course need to take a look at … Read more

OOoCon
is approaching !! It will take place this year at Lyon (France) from the
11th to 13th of september

Some are already there as Lyon is a nice city place to visit (Pavel, Stefan, …). I
will personnaly come from Grenoble on sunday evening

A lot of interresting topics will be covered by the conferences on tuesday
and wednesday,
especialy regarding extensions and OOo scripting but also ODF topics as
well as promising lingucomponent project spellchecker presentation

On monday
many meetings are planned :
QA,
Extenstions,
Marketing, … a great time to discuss less formally

One more important point, our kiberpipa friends rock and kindelly
accepted to reproduce their wonderfull effort from last year. We
will have a professional-like media coverage that will cover (Note that all
of this is done only with open sources tools):

• live video streaming

• archiving the

… Read more

Using OpenThesaurus by Daniel
Naber, thesaurus for
portuguese is now available in OpenOffice.org 2.0 though DicOOo (File
> Wizards > Install new dictionaries)

Thanks to Paulo Trezentos and Rui Fernandez from Caixa Magica

(Post originally written by Laurent Godard on the old Nuxeo blogs.)