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The primary focus of this book it the presentation of Nuxeo EP, from the perspective of its configuration and its architecture.
This book is not an end-user manual for Nuxeo. If you are interested
in such a document, we recommend that you get it from http://doc.nuxeo.org/.
As a reference book for the Nuxeo platform, this book has several intended audiences:
System integrators, who need to understand how to configure and adapt the Nuxeo platform to their customers needs.
Third-party application developers, who will typically need both to customize the behavior of some components and to write new components to extend the functionalities of the platform.
System administrators, who need to understand how to configure the platform for the specific needs of their hosting environment.
Core developers, who work on the platform and need a reference documentation.
We fully understand that these different people with different concerns, and we plan to create, thanks to the modular structure of this document, more targeted books for these different people.
Readers of this book are presumed familiar with the Java 5 language and with the Java EE and XML technologies.
Founded in 2000, Nuxeo SAS is part of the "second wave" of open source companies, and focusses on developing and supporting applications, instead of system software or development tools.
By entering the ECM field early in 2002, Nuxeo has established itself as the leader of open source ECM, with customers for critical projects in the Government, Energy and Finance sectors. Nuxeo currently has 40 employees, about half of them developers.
Nuxeo has customers and partners in Europe, in Northern and Southern America, in Africa and in India.