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Is there any open source alternative to Documentum CMS. While doing the evaluation for this I came across Alfresco, Nuxeo and Apache Jackrabbit. I would like to know if I missed something and If there are any other products that I missed.
Thanks in advance.
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Ajai G
You pretty got the point.
Nuxeo is based on Open Source but you have to pay the license, and is pretty expensive (at this point, Documentum is better anyway.
Apache Jackrabbit, I personally never saw in action, so I don't have a clue. Apache is a strong Open Source mass of projects, so I think for a Java developer is a great point to start.
Alfresco, at last, is the best choice here, 'cuz you have Enterprise and Community versions, if you want to pay for support or note. Here, if you are/have Java developers in team, you can create a pretty nice web-app with some great tools like sharing content/workflow/full text indexing and so on.
I think it's the most complete system out there, and it really have great potential.
I work for a company that is making business with this product, and I have to say we're very happy about it.
So full disclosure - I work for Nuxeo. But I want to clear up a misconception: Nuxeo is fully open source, and does not charge for licenses. The code's on GitHub. There's only one version - no enterprise / community versions. We charge for a subscription to support, maintenance, and a customization tooling.
This is pretty much these ones, AFAIC I would go with Nuxeo
#Alch3mi5t Nuxeo is completely opensource and free (LGPL), even more than Afresco:
There is no difference between a Community and a Enterprise version, it's just the same. Customers who are paying have the same product than any other people.
What are they paying for ?
Nuxeo Studio, a online graphical tool to easily customize Nuxeo without having to edit xml nor having to write java code.
Support to get answers to questions
Hot fixes on a specific release can be easily installed from the admin center. (sources are available in github, if you are not a Nuxeo Customer, and you can rebuild these one with maven)
If you need to do more complex customization, here is where Java developers would be happy. Nuxeo has a
pluggable architecture with plugins and extension points, almost anything in nuxeo can be overridden in Nuxeo with extension points: UI, server and feature configuration, core configuration, document structures, rest services, backend DB, etc ... it's quite powerful.
There is a free and opensource plugin for eclipse to help java developers: Nuxeo IDE
don't hesitate to ask any questions on the irc channel: #nuxeo in freenode
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This may seem like an odd request, but as a computer science student, I'm always running into apps that make doing a development task easier than the way I was doing it before. Unfortunately, I tend to discover these apps long after doing things the hard way for far too long. I'm only on mac, but I figured I'd include both Mac and PC for future reference (if I ever have both systems).
For me, a student of C++ programming, I'm currently religiously using just a few pieces of software on Mac:
XCODE - IDE
Atom - Text Editing, HTML, and a few other things
Cyberduck - SFTP into my school's Linux system.
Terminal - (Haven't tried iTerm2 yet or any other Terminal
alternative)
Go2Shell - quick folder navigation for Terminal
What other utilitarian apps do you guys find particularly helpful for you as developers? Feel free to mention any software you may use to help your workflow.
I hope this question isn't too broad of a topic for S.O. If so, please feel free to remove it.
Also I didn't know what tag to use for this topic, so if the mods need to move this thread to a more appropriate area, that would be great.
Well, your list does not look bad at all ;)
Most developers will have a basic set of tools such as:
An IDE (Integrated development environment,e.g. phpStorm, Aptana,etc..) - where you write your code.
Various Compilers (e.g. C\CPP compiler for a C\CPP developer, or a LESS compiler for a web developer, whatever you use in your daily work) - to compile your raw code\markup into an executable\usable format.
A Debugger - to debug your code.
A Local development stack (e.g. LAMP, used mainly by web developers) - to execute your code and see how it works, debug, etc..
A Dependency management tool - optional: if you have a big project with many dependencies.
A Version control system (such as Git, SVN, etc..) - to maintain your project as a proper code repository.
An FTP client (if you upload files to a server)
That is generally what you need to write software\applications, anything in addition to that is considered helpful but you don't really need it.
There are some fancy tools for lazy people, those tools can save you some time but the huge disadvantage is when you start to rely on those tools and then you stop understanding how things actually are constructed and work - which will make the maintaining of your software a nightmare.
The best thing is to know when to use "helper" tools, but not many of them, use them only if you have to, and do not get to the situation where you rely on them - because then if they have a bug or a mysterious flaw, you will be dead in the water until the next hotfix or patch comes out.
Good luck !
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This may be off-topic, but I decided to ask it here anyway, because it's very related to programming.
I'm looking for a site which will host a free software project for free, offer SVN and Hg access, bug tracking &co, space for a blog...
Any tips?
Also, should this be community wiki?
Have a look at Kenai which is IMO very nice (especially if you like Jira) and offers Projects, User Profile, Code Hosting, Issue Tracking, Wiki, Forums, Email lists, Downloads, more....
Below a comparison with the "competition" (seems a bit inaccurate actually, Google Code does offer Hg):
alt text http://www.imagebanana.com/img/ikt4ytfr/screenshot_008.png
For more site and feature comparisons,
see the Wikipedia page Comparison of
open source software hosting
facilities.
Check it out.
google code?
Quotes from their website:
It provides a fast, reliable, and easy open source hosting service with the following features:
Instant project creation on any topic
Subversion and Mercurial code hosting with 2 gigabyte of storage space and download hosting support with 2 gigabytes of storage space
Integrated source code browsing and code review tools to make it easy to view code, review contributions, and maintain a high quality code base
An issue tracker and project wiki that are simple, yet flexible and powerful, and can adapt to any development process
Starring and update streams that make it easy to keep track of projects and developers that you care about
sounds exactly like your description.
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What licenses are the best for open sourcing web applications?
It depends on your licensing goals.
If you just want the code to be widely usable, MIT or 3-clause BSD work fine.
If you want to require redistributions of your code to be under the same license, GPL works.
If you want to require deployments of your web application to distribute its source code, with any modifications, then you'll need the AGPL.
If you are fine with your application being used as the basis for a proprietary web service, then just pick a standard license (BSD, GPL, MPL, whatever) using the same criteria as for other projects. If you want to prevent that, however, the only option I know of is AGPL, which requires that installations provide source to their users. Then BigBucksServiceVendor can set up an installation, tweak it, and charge users to use it, but they must provide their source code so that someone else can do the same as well.
The AGPL also, though, is not near as widely used as many of the other licenses. That may impact your decision.
The answer for the "best" depends too much what you hope to accomplish, so a concrete answer is impossible.
If you would like to know more about the types of open sources licenses and what they offer, Wikipedia is a great place to start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license
Despite the multitude of open-source licenses, there are probably only a few you can realistically choose from when it all boils down. As Mike was saying, it all really depends on what you're looking for.
Realize that open-sourcing is just another form of license protection, so deciding for yourself the terms under which you want it to be released will greatly affect which license you choose. Do you want to allow commercial endeavors to profit from your work? What if someone were to modify your code significantly into their own derivative product... can they distribute it (for free or not) without also distributing the original or at least linking back to you? Do you care if anyone gives you credit at all for your work? These are just a few questions that should probably be answered before you head too far down this road.
I'd recommend taking a look at a few wiki pages -- specifically, investigate the difference between permissive and non-permissive licenses, as these are the two major types of open-source license. When you get around to figuring out what exactly you want to protect and how you'd like to protect it, that's when I think the right decision will become clearer for you.
Pick a License, Any License
There are a variety of options depending on what you're looking for. There is a very good article on Wikipedia describing many of the licenses and what it means to use a specific license.
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I am currently working as a consultant but i found that i have not been doing coding for a very long time.
So i wonder if there are any other nice websites beside sourceforge.net which can allows me to do some coding.
Thanks
sourceforge.net - All sorts of open source software, from Linux to BSD to Windows.
codeplex.com - Mainly Microsoft technologies-focused. This is where you'll find more of the .NET open source stuff.
For general indexes to open source software, see freshmeat and Ohloh. The former is a classic index of open source software and the latter has statistics about the source code for each project, which might be handy if you want to judge how active a project is.
If you want to join easily, distributed revision control is nice. The big hosting sites for Mercurial (Bitbucket), Git (Github) and Bazaar (Launchpad) should give you plenty of projects to browse and, hopefully, contribute to :-)
OpenHatch (openhatch.org) is nifty (IMO) because:
The site provides a number of "bite size" bugs from Free Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.
There is a Map showing the registered users in your area, along with the langauges and projects they are involved in.
The site provides an email forwarding address with rotating "anti-spam salt" by which other contributors may reach out to contact you. (You may choose whether to use this, or provide an alternate means to contact you on the site.)
Also, there's Github and Google Code
Google Code.
IMO, much nicer than SourceForge.
How about Google Summer of Code?
If you're just looking for a small quick project, Clusterify.
Ohloh is an other good collection of open source projects.
It provide details, timeline and notes.
There's lots of under served open source sectors that you can give your extra time to.
You don't have to do what everyone else is doing, take for example, the loads of time wasting CMS projects out there, while there seems to be no proper OCR in Java, and Jira is a great issue tracking system, no doubt, but its not open source, Bugzilla sucks, don't say Mantis, and Eventum is written in PHP(I'm a Java fanatic)
The best source for open source projects is of course sourceforge.net, Google code, not so much.
We can not say that one website is better, it depends on the domain you work, so your best friend is well http://www.google.com with your keywords
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I am starting a a new web development project and I am tired of coding login systems. This is the kind of thing that must have been done dozens of times before. I really want to use someone else's code, because it is easier than rolling my own, and it will likely be better. I prefer open source for all the usual reasons, but mostly I want the ability to change it if I don't like something and bugfixes are easier than designing a whole thing.
I just need a login system, something that manages the username/password stuff and user registration. I don't need a whole CMS.
I am already looking at openid.net, but What open source login systems have you worked with? What other login systems have you heard of?
OpenID works really well. Given the recent wave of adoptions, I think OpenID is the best bet. It is cross-platform and has libraries for all the major development platforms (php, python, perl, ruby, .net, java, c++). I have implemented it for DotNetNuke and found it was relatively painless.
OpenID is definitely the best solution and there are plennty of open source libraries for all kinds of languages out there. Hava look at openidenabled.com.
I don't know what technologies (language & platforms) you prefer or have as requirements, but we have implemented CAS at my workplace and it has worked pretty well.
CAS itself is implemented in Java, but as the frontpage says, it has client libraries and integrations to numerous other technologies and pltaforms.
I wound up going with mod_auth_openid. It is super simple and prevents unneeded complication at other levels. but the code is not perfect, and I may have to adjust it later.