Archive for July, 2010

Let’s talk about designing a Web UI framework, to use big words

Sometimes it’s difficult to assess the configurability needs for a
framework, and sometimes these needs change and have to evolve. Ideally, the
new design will allow to answer to most common needs with little work, but
will keep it possible to achieve more complex tasks. It will also take care
of restrictions that the underlying frameworks impose.

This is why we decided to introduce a new concept in the Nuxeo UI Framework:
content views.

A content view is a notion to define all the elements needed to get a list
of items and perform their rendering. The most obvious use case is the
listing of a folderish document content, where we would like to be able to:

• define the NXQL query that will be used to retrieve the documents,
  filtering some of them (documents in the trash for

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We just announced the release of Nuxeo DAM 1.1, with some compelling new features such as video storyboarding, video streaming, bulk import and edit, and repository sharing with Nuxeo DM.

This new version also offers some improvements to the some of the application configuration components.

New configuration system (from Nuxeo DM 5.3.2)

A limitation of the configuration system in Nuxeo 5.3.1 and prior versions was
that each platform upgrade needed the system administrator to reconfigure the
data sources and other system-level configuration files.

We have listened to our own sys admin (who was complaining about that when
upgrading Nuxeo Cloud instances) and have changed the way configuration resources are handled.

Basically, the software packages (EAR or WAR for DM, DAM, CMF …)
don’t include anymore resources for system level configuration.

These configuration files are now handled by a template system that:

• allows you to easily change configuration (for example

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Summary

The Nuxeo development team is happy to announce the release of Nuxeo EP and DM 5.3.2, the open source ECM Platform and Document Management application.

As you can guess from the version number, this is a maintenance release
that includes mainly bug fixes, but also numerous improvements, and some refactoring. Some of these improvements provide the power behind the upcoming new versions of Nuxeo Case Management Framework (Nuxeo CMF 1.1) and Nuxeo Digital Asset Management (Nuxeo DAM 1.1) that are built upon Nuxeo EP and DM.

Nevertheless, more than 300 Jira tickets have been resolved between Nuxeo DM 5.3.1 (that was released exactly 4 months ago) and 5.3.2.

The main new features of Nuxeo DM 5.3.2 include:

• a new configuration system (to make upgrade and administration easier);
• a new Tag Service implementation (complete integration with VCS backend);
• content automation integration;
• VCS improvements (better Oracle support and optimizations);
• new

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