Announcing new Eclipse-based OpenSource Project: Remus Information Management
10. June 2009
I’m very proud to announce a new Eclipse-based OpenSource project: Remus Information Management (short “RIM”) , an application for information management. The goal of this project is to provide an open platform and tooling support for any kind of data which can be structured into a unit of information. Its features like desktop-integration, search and synchronization with remote data repositories should help the user to manage the mass of daily information-throughput and information-providers to distribute their data easily. The initial environment for RIM will be a desktop for fulfilling the requirements of desktop-integration and full offline capability but we’re already investigating to deliver RIM as a web-application.
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Watch the video “RIM in 5 minutes” to get an overview of the application and its current implemented features. |
To achieve these goals we’ve chosen the Eclipse Platform and the RCP Framework because of its flexible and extensible behavior, customizing and extending the platform can be done with the standard eclipse mechanisms like extension points and OSGI-Services. Especially the extension of the current feature-set is an important requirement. Whether you want to add new desktop features, new business specific information-structures or connect RIM to your own proprietary data repository the application should provide minimalistic interfaces to plug-in your functionality.
Roadmap
The development started 1 year ago and you can download a nightly build with a predefined set of information types and repository connectors. The first stable release is scheduled for January 2010, with a stable platform and a well-mixed set of information types and repositories, for an overview see http://remus-software.org/feature-overview.
See RIM @ Eclipse DemoCamp Leipzig
I’ll talk at the Eclipse DemoCamp in Leipzig (June, 23rd) about RIM. If you want to know more about the project this event is a good possibility 
Get started
We would be very happy if you could download a nightly build and try RIM. Feedback, Feature-Requests and Bugreports are much appreciated. Here are the links:
Website: http://remus-software.org
Issue-Tracker: http://remus-software.org/jira
Nightly-Builds: http://www.remus-software.org/bamboo/browse/RCP-NIGHTLY/latest/artifact
Cool stuff. Did you thought about doing all this under the Umbrella of the Eclipse-Foundation? I’m interested in your Calendar implementation. Did you ever thought about putting this into Nebula - if yes contact me?
Comment by Tom Schindl — 10. June 2009 @ 15:03
This is really cool. I had almost the exact same idea about two years ago, but didn’t think I’d have enough time/resources to work on it. Maybe I’ll find time to contribute to this project (probably not this year though).
Comment by Erkki Lindpere — 12. June 2009 @ 01:52