eXo Platform (Enterprise WebOS)

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Here the list of the most important features and improvements of the eXo JCR 1.9:

• Lucene 2.2 based search engine with advanced indexing configuration, synonym and highlights support, improved fuzzy search, pluggable spell checker mechanism
• Advanced replication service with new synchronization subsystem improving cluster scalability
• JCR Resource service providing flexible way for node representation as well as using jcr:// URL scheme
• Support for REST services (based on JSR 311) on Groovy script
• Indexer has new mechanism for I/O errors catching and index storage restoring after system failures
• XML Import/Export improvements including dedicated logic for mix:versionable nodes and collisions logic refactoring
• JCR comes with new cache implementation, the cache has lightweight removal logic, supports blocked and unblocked read modes
• Audit management supports versionable nodes records, new audit storage improved

More information about eXo JCR: http://www.exoplatform.org/portal/public/en/product/oemisv

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There will be some ECM admin screen cast soon, so stay tuned!

Ohloh is a cool tool that analysis Open Source projects code.

Many information is available such as the number of contributors over the last twelve months:

“Over the past twelve months, 90 developers contributed new code to eXo Platform.

This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh.

For this measurement, Ohloh considered only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 92 developers have contributed.”

This is close to the Firefox size team and of course outperforms the competition:

“Over the past twelve months, 97 developers contributed new code to Mozilla Firefox. ”

The next graph shows the number of contributors to the projects over the last years, as you can see, Liferay Committers + Alfresco committers < eXo committers (note that Liferay + Alfresco offering is included in eXo stack)

This trend is also confirmed by the number of commits made over the last years for each projects.

Several other information are available like the project cost:

In other words, if you would have to produce the same amount of work (and that does not valuate the innovation here) you would have to spend 12M$…in the US

or the languages used,

A nice article in French about SpagoBI deployed into the WebOS, the picture that shows reports and map analysis is really nice!

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This long awaited release is the new version of the first product the eXo team ever launched back to the old JSR 168 times (November 2004). This brand new version includes the new Portlet API 2.0 (JSR 286) as well as the implementation of the WSRP 2 pre released specification.

eXo PC is bundled along with a lightweight test portal and a number of demo portlets for testing purpose.

Download from OW2 forge

This packaged is great for Independent Software Vendors (ISV) that would like to add portlet features to their applications.

Here are the list of the most important features:

Portlet Container

- Full compliance with the Portlet API 2.0 final specification - JSR 286 (100% TCK tests passed)
- PC plugin mechanism
- Extensible Portal framework
- New portlet apptiocation deployment descriptor
- New API interfaces
- Container Runtime options support
- Resource ID support
- Annotated methods support
- Event processing
- PortletURLGenerationListener
- JAXB type validation for event payload
- Cache levels for resource URLs
- Predefined container events
- Portlet filter support
- Validation cache and ETAG support
- New tags in tag library
- Include/forward processing changes
- Public render parameters
- HTTP headers/response full control for processResource()
- AJAX-compliant URL generation

WSRP
- Full compliance with the WSRP 2 plugin to the WSRP 2 PR03 specification
- WSRP plugins for the PC (WSRP 1.0 and WSRP 2.0 plugins)
- WSRP administrative portlets built in into plugins
- WSRP starter mechanism
- AXIS 1.4 based code
- Three step protocol
- Resource serving
- Event handling
- Navigational parameters
- JAXB event binding
- State distribution

Here i a picture of the new eXo PC 2.0 architecture built on top of a plugin design that allows portal to handle local or remote portlets transparently…bye bye the old JSR168ProxyPortlet!

Introduction of eXo ECM with simple features like tags, upload, votes, comments…

Paris, 16th june 2008 - eXo Platform SAS, collaborative software editor, is proud to announce the arrival of Tugdual GRALL in the company, as Vice President of Business and Product Strategy.

Tugdual Grall as eXo Platform business and product strategy Vice President

Tugdual will take the responsibility of business and product strategy. From the business side, Tugdual will work with the field team, to animate partners (ISVs, VARs), and manage pre-sales opportunities. In addition to this, Tugdual will leverage his experience within Oracle labs, to closely work with eXo development team to ensure product strategy/coherence.

“With always more international business opportunities, the arrival of Tugdual in the team, is also of a great help to develop the business at an international level” higlights eXo Founder and CEO, Benjamin Mestrallet, allowing him to focus more on international operations, like worldwide marketing and conferences around the world.

Tugdual Grall’s Background

Tugdual has 15 years of experience in the middleware applications in IT systems. He has been working for 8 years for Oracle corporation as consultant then as Product Manager for OracleAS Middleware, in Oracle Head Quarters, California.

As product manager, Tugdual has been focusing on JavaEE, Web Services/SOA and Portal. During this experience Tugdual was working on the product strategy in development organization, and with key customers to accelerate Oracle product adoption.

Lately Tugdual has been working as architect in Cap Gemini group (Sogeti), with a key role around SOA and Web 2.0 projects and evangelization.

He has been presenter at several international conferences such as JavaOne, Oracle Open World, ODTUG and has published articles on different sites and magazines. (Java Developer Journal, Oracle Technology Network, Select, Web Services Developer Journal)

Tugdual can be reached at tugdual.grall@exoplatform.com

Another great product built on top of eXo WebOS is Novaforge, an innovative Forge platform that aggregates and glue several Open Source tools used for Software Developments such as SVN repositories, Bug trackers, Continuous build…

Emmanuel Rias is leading the project developments and he sent me several commented screenshots:

NovaForge is a revolutionary forge based on WEBOS presentation. The final goal is to have the same functional behaviors and functionality than your computer in your browser. NovaForge brings also all the software development factories and project control functionality.
NovaForge based all his presentation on Portlet standard approach and used Exo platform to support both presentation, one in Portal mode and the other one in WEB OS mode.
In the User Workspace you can access to your agenda, the calendar or you can see your affected tasks.

You have, exactly as your favorite desktop, all the continuous integration functionalities available in several windows. We manage a repositories hierarchy configuration and the possibility to plug a continuous integration on many existing applications.

We integrate the very powerful ECM of Exo Platform. You can manage versions, start workflow (for example to approve a document), voting and you can access to your project documents directly from your favorite explorer. By drag and drop you can put or read documents according to your permissions.

Thanks Emmanuel and Co for choosing eXo, you made the right choice !