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Questioning Your Social Network

Patrice Lamarque — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:03:34 +0000

Earlier this month, Facebook launched a new feature on its website dubbed “Facebook Questions.” While the feature may be new to Facebook, the premise is by no means a novel one. In fact, looking to the web user community for answers to questions is what initially made Askjeeves.com such a popular website and what is driving the success of a specialized site like stackoverflow.com today.

The web has made collaboration easier, and it is now an expected characteristic of both consumer and enterprise apps. Facebook acknowledges with Facebook Questions, which is yet another way to tap into the wealth of knowledge offered by a repository composed of millions of social connections.

But, Facebook falls short of delivering truly focused answers. Asking a question to a pool of 500 million people might certainly make for some good odds of getting a response, but it’s also very easy for your question to be lost in the ether. As expected, as time passes by and metadata makes finding information easier on Facebook’s repository of questions, the site’s ability to answer a question accurately will improve.

For companies that can’t wait for metadata to speed up the process by which they mine information, a more focused community of experts is what’s needed.

We saw this need for surfacing subject matter experts three years ago when we first developed eXo Knowledge. At that time, we had an application called FAQ. It was intended to be a simple FAQ publishing engine. Our customers very quickly found this FAQ functionality to be useful for building a dialogue with their employees, clients and partners. So we decided to rename the application eXo Answers, and orient it more towards a Q&A dialogue tool. With such a tool, domain experts in the enterprise have a new mechanism for sharing their knowledge and helping new colleagues. The application had turned into a socially engaging collaboration hub while the original FAQ publishing became a secondary feature.

This was reinforced to me again recently, when I participated in a panel of experts at the Solutions Intranet conference in Paris. Our roundtable was focused on Knowledge Management. The experts agreed on the subject that social tools are taking the traditional KM discipline to an entire new level. Some of the key points that came out of this discussion include:

Social networks are the perfect place to find and connect to domain experts inside and outside one’s enterprise.
Conversational style collaboration (activity streams) pushes out information, a direct contrast to older document-based KM systems, where finding information has been difficult.
Information is not knowledge (activity stream is not a knowledge feed, but it helps to push information and resources).
A rating system powered by users will quickly surface the most useful questions and answers.

With these ideas in mind, we’ve done a bit of work on our Answers functionality, and it will be a top social feature in eXo Platform 3.0. We’re excited to be delivering Answers – and many other features – to you shortly. If you want to get in early on eXo Platform 3.0, check out our Early Adopter Program or download eXo Knowledge and see what Answers is all about.

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Introducing New Developer Documentation – Starting with eXo Social

Katie Poplin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:30:18 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we released eXo Social 1.0.1, which introduces a valuable new resource: developer documentation. (This is the most exciting feature of this release, which otherwise contains some bug fixes for the 1.0 version. You can download eXo Social 1.0.1 here.) We’re working on a lot more of these developer-focused resources, which will help developers build applications on top of eXo technology.

eXo Social is the first of the eXo projects to get the “developer docs treatment.” This documentation will show you how to extend your apps with social features. You will learn how to publish activities, add contacts, create spaces, invite people, plug your own backend for user profile, use the OpenSocial API, and a lot more. It contains everything you need to social-enable your existing apps.

Developers – check it out, and let us know what you’d like to see added.

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eXo Accelerates Modern Java Application Development with Early Adopter Program

Julien Brulland — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:52:47 +0000

Customers can begin prototyping modern Java applications for the forthcoming eXo Platform 3.0 through new program

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 21, 2010) – eXo today announced the eXo Early Adopter Program designed to give Java enterprises access to the training and technical resources they need to begin rolling out cutting-edge, rich Java applications built on eXo Platform 3.0. The company’s much-anticipated flagship offer, planned for general availability by the end of the year, has been re-architected with the fast, modern portal framework co-developed by eXo and Red Hat, GateIn.

In recent months, eXo has delivered new and updated community versions of all the key components in eXo Platform 3.0 to run on GateIn 3.0: eXo Social, eXo Content, eXo Collaboration and eXo Knowledge. The Early Adopter Program goes beyond a beta program, and instead offers eXo’s most innovative customers and other Java enterprises a realistic path to modernizing their legacy Java applications.

The training and developer support offered through the Early Adopter Program is designed to help developers begin prototyping a new breed of rich, interactive, social Java applications that can run popular Java environments such as JBoss, Spring, Tomcat or IBM WebSphere. Applications developed today will be compatible with the GA release. These services will be delivered by eXo’s technical product leaders.

Program Details

Early access to all updates between now and final GA.
Three-hour web-based trainings on all eXo components comprising eXo Platform 3.0.
One-year Developer Subscriptions, giving users support on community and beta releases.
Discounts on eXo Platform 3.0 Production Subscriptions down the road.
Participation in the Early Adopter Program is a one-time $5,000 fee, which can be applied to the future purchase of a Production Subscription.

Supporting Quotes

Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo: “The enthusiasm we’re seeing for eXo Platform 3.0, even in this early stage, validates the heavy investment we’ve made to deliver the best user experience platform on the market for Java enterprises. The Early Adopter Program, which we initially opened to select customers, has been so well received that we’re opening it up to more enterprises looking for a ‘SharePoint’ of their own that would work with their existing Java systems and make the most of their Java talent. This program puts the power of the eXo Platform in developers’ hands, with a practical roadmap to get them from design and development to production.”

Online Resources

Overview of the Early Adopter Program
Learn more about eXo Platform 3.0
Download the eXo white paper on “Java Middleware for Cloud Services”

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Polytechniciens Visit eXo’s Vietnam Office: My “World is Flat” Story

Katie Poplin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:03:40 +0000

Today’s guest post is from is by our marketing manager for eXo Vietnam, Thuy Dang Thanh.

As a member of eXo’s Marketing & Communication team, I get to meet and work with a lot of interesting people – whether they are partners, customers, journalists, or job candidates. One of the coolest experiences I’ve had in this position was getting to spend a day with a great group of students who visited our office in Hanoi last week.

Every year, 10 of the top students at the prestigious Polytechnic of Paris (Polytechnique) are selected for a special program that provides intensive technology and leadership courses. At the end of this program, they visit a foreign country to experience different local and business cultures. This year, Vietnam was selected – and eXo was one of the companies they chose to visit during the trip.

The team was definitely buzzing with anticipation when they arrived at our Hanoi office last Thursday. After a warm welcome from the 80+ eXoers on our team, they wanted to walk around and check out our facility and the big open spaces where we all work. Next, Brice Revenant, the General Manager of our office, led a discussion about the Vietnam market and eXo’s business model. One of my co-workers who works on the GateIn development team, To Minh Hoang, shared a lot of information about the Vietnam economic climate, our history, main industries, employee culture and work ethics, cost of living, and more.

The Polytechnique students asked a lot of questions too. They wanted to know about the benefits eXo provides to its employees, open source adoption and the software industry in Vietnam, Vietnamese business culture, and other government-related issues like regulations and taxes. The most interesting topic for all of us seemed to be the comparison between eXo and other local major companies (FPT or Viettel), and how we stack up on issues like management style, local recruitment efforts, and the upward mobility of employees.

The students left with a better understanding of not only Vietnamese culture, but also of eXo’s vision for hiring and promoting the best and the brightest engineers in the country. It was especially great to show them that our distributed development model not only provides better value to all our customers, but it also provides fantastic opportunities for our local employees.

After the meeting, I had a question for the students too: What had they liked the most about eXo? Julien de Zélicourt answered, saying ¨eXo impressed us by the fact, among all local and foreign companies we visited during our study trip, it is the only one who manages to carry out R&D operations. Almost all businesses just focus on project outsourcing for remote countries, without a strong activity in research.”
The team leader, Matthieu Deconinck, concluded the meeting with another memorable quote: “We were impressed by the company culture and profile. To us, it looked like a mini-Google. Good luck!”

Here are some pictures from the day:

The students arriving at our office in Hanoi.

Open discussion with the students and eXoers in our meeting room.

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JBoss World – A rookie’s retrospective

Mark Downey — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:34:11 +0000

I just joined eXo a few months ago as a technical evangelist, having just graduated from engineering school in Paris. Last week I was in Boston at the 2010 JBoss World / Red Hat Summit, so I thought I’d share my perspective as a first-time attendee. With Red Hat announcing the new JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform Site Publisher, which is powered by eXo’s Web Content Management module, the eXo team was out in full force (Bob Bickel, Benjamin Mestrallet, Benjamin Paillereau, Julien Viet, Jerome Agnola and myself). The announcement was big for eXo, but it was even better to see the enthusiastic response from the attendees I talked to.

The event kicked off Tuesday evening and it was easy to find our booth. People were lining up to grab one of our new “Pimp My Java” t-shirts, along with the coordinating eXo “pimp cups” that could be filled with drinks at the bar. We found ourselves running out of giveaways earlier that we thought.

We met even more people Wednesday, as most of the eXo team members gathered in the booth after Jim Whitehurst’s keynote introduction. In his speech, Red Hat’s CEO explained why Open Source software is more relevant than ever. Customers are increasingly concerned with openess and modularity, to avoid having resources locked into their IT projects. Open standards and interoperability are something I’ve heard a lot about since I joined eXo, so it was great to hear this message repeated by the CEO of the biggest open source company out there.

That afternoon I spent most of my time giving demos in eXo’s booth and had some great discussions with people who dropped by. It was interesting to hear so many fresh ideas and opinions, and talking to “real-life” developers definitely helped me gain some perspective on our product. I already knew our product’s features and capabilities, but now I got to hear exactly what kind of apps people want to extend and build with it. Once again, the main concern everyone kept bringing up was integration. Being able to reuse existing code, hardware or data structures is the starting point for 99% of customers. On top of that, I heard a lot of people say that integrating a WCM solution with their existing applications is a key concern, so being able to get that on top of EPP5 is a huge plus for Red Hat customers.

The day ended with an on-site party and barbecue where I was able to meet some of eXo’s partners and fellow Red Hat team members, as well as Jim Whitehurst, who was casually chatting with attendees.

Thursday was big for eXo as Red Hat announced the EPP-SP portal in the morning keynote, and Benjamin Paillereau, product manager of eXo Content, held a session on Social Publishing on EPP-SP in the afternoon. After we hit up Faneuil Hall for the closing party, we all joined the pub crawl taking place nearby. That’s where we were psyched to find Noelle, Red Hat developer evangelist, wearing the eXo t-shirt!

All in all, the conference was a great experience for the whole eXo team – I definitely learned a lot. It was awesome to meet all of you who stopped by our booth to have a chat (or a beer) with us. And a big thanks to Red Hat for organizing everything so well! For those of you who didn’t have the chance to attend, all the presenters’ slides are already available here.

I’ll hopefully see you at Red Hat Summit 2011!

Introducing the eXo Modules

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eXo Webinar: How to Add Social Publishing to Portal-Based Applications

Julien Brulland — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:08:32 +0000

GateIn, the open source portal framework developed by eXo and Red Hat, provides a foundation for developers to build and deploy portal-based applications. By adding Web Content Management (WCM) functionality and gadgets, these applications can be extended to allow end users to create and publish their own content, without having to know the inner workings of the portal infrastructure.

Developers can easily gain these capabilities with eXo WCM, which is tuned and optimized for the GateIn portal framework. Together, eXo WCM and GateIn can be used as a platform for integrating applications as well as managing and publishing content – all from a single, familiar console.

Join Benjamin Paillereau, product manager of eXo WCM, as he demonstrates how to get native WCM features inside GateIn. Sample use case scenarios and a live demo will also be provided.

Through the presentation and demo, attendees will learn:

How to set up a workflow process for getting content created, edited, approved and published
How to customize this workflow for the unique needs of the content author, the publisher and the site visitor
How to create a simple portlet to take advantage of extended publication features
How to extend the publication process with UIExtension Framework
How to use REST services to add authoring to a personal dashboard

Live eXo Webinar, Wednesday 7 July, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT, register you seat now!

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eXo Expands Collaboration With Red Hat on JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform

Julien Brulland — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:53:05 +0000

eXo powers newly announced CMS from Red Hat; further extends this forthcoming product with add-on modules to bring social, collaboration and knowledge management capabilities

BOSTON, June 24 - RED HAT SUMMIT – eXo (http://exoplatform.com) today announced the introduction of eXo Add-on Modules for JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform Site Publisher, a new content management system (CMS) powered by eXo that Red Hat previewed to customers today and will release later this year. With the eXo Add-on Modules, JBoss Site Publisher customers will be able mix and match their content with applications and publish across not only websites but also enterprise social networks, activity streams, instant messaging and forums.

eXo Add-on Modules for JBoss — eXo Social, eXo Collaboration and eXo Knowledge — are planned to be released concurrent with JBoss Site Publisher’s general availability. The modules will be based on eXo community projects which are available today as downloads bundled with GateIn 3.0 and Tomcat 6.0 to run out of the box.

News Highlights

Red Hat and eXo partnered in 2009 to collaborate on GateIn, the next generation portal framework created by the merger of the eXo Portal and JBoss Portal. GateIn is the underlying technology of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0, which is generally available today.
Site Publisher builds on this partnership with an add-on component based on eXo WCM.
eXo Add-on Modules for Site Publisher includes:
— eXo Social: Turn any portal directory into a social network; create individual, team and application profiles; follow activity streams for individuals, teams and applications.
— eXo Collaboration: Add integrated chat, rich email client and calendaring to better collaborate across teams.
— eXo Knowledge: Build forums and FAQ sites to facilitate better knowledge sharing and service across the company, with partners or with customers.
— Extensions for document management and workflow.
eXo Add-on Modules for Site Publisher are tested and packaged commercial offerings based on eXo open source projects.

Supporting Quotes

Jason Andersen, Red Hat senior product manager for portals: “Red Hat is pleased to expand our collaboration with eXo to deliver JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform Site Publisher later this year. The breadth and availability of eXo’s modules enabling social networks, collaboration and knowledge management will further enhance Site Publisher for our customers and provide the value they expect from an integrated platform for building rich, content-driven applications.”

Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO, eXo: “Web content management is one of the most mature open source markets, so it’s a huge validation for eXo to be chosen by Red Hat to power JBoss Site Publisher. Being lightweight and flexible has been a core philosophy behind eXo’s architecture, enabling us to extend JBoss Site Publisher with a great number of applications for their platform.”

Online Resources

Overview of eXo Add-on Modules for JBoss
Download eXo community projects today
Read the related Red Hat press release

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eXo Forums upgrade

Katie Poplin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:36:14 +0000

Today we completed the migration of eXo Forums to eXo Knowledge 2.0. We’ve been so busy with the new releases of our community projects that we’ve neglected some of our community resources… To put it bluntly, the old forum was slow, buggy, and contained outdated information. (Side note/forums trivia question: I’ll send an eXo t-shirt to the first non-eXo employee who can tell me what Liveroom was.)

The new eXo Forums feature simplified categories that should be a lot easier to navigate. More importantly, it’s fast. Like the-French-team’s-World-Cup-trip fast. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) The only downside is that it will take us a couple weeks to migrate all the old posts over. In the meantime, you can still post and answer new questions – give it a try and let us know what you think.

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eXo Delivers Web Content to Enterprise Java

Julien Brulland — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:43:03 +0000

eXo Web Content Management 2.0 now available as open source download

San Francisco, Calif. (June 15, 2010) – eXo (http://exoplatform.com) today released eXo Web Content Management (WCM) 2.0. Bundled with GateIn 3.0 and Tomcat 6.0 to run out of the box, eXo WCM is now available as a free download under the open source Affero Gnu Public License (AGPL). Commercial support for eXo WCM will be available as part of eXo Platform 3.0, expected later this year.

Why Use eXo WCM

Like all eXo services, such as eXo Social (announced just last month), eXo WCM is designed for IT organizations that want to be able to integrate web content with their existing enterprise Java systems. eXo WCM comes with tools and extensions already familiar to Java programmers, so they can starting developing from day one.

On its own, eXo WCM provides all the modern Web 2.0 capabilities needed to create, publish and manage web content. It runs with GateIn, the advanced new portal framework created by eXo and Red Hat, so users now have content management inside a portal. Users can integrate applications in the portal and manage all the content from the same user interface.

With eXo WCM as a core piece of the eXo Platform, Java enterprises have a comprehensive user experience platform for integrating intranet, Web and transactional applications – similar to what SharePoint provides for .NET.

Highlights of eXo WCM

Visit the eXo site for a full list of eXo WCM features. Highlights include:

Scalable Content: eXo WCM is based on eXo JCR, an open source implementation of the Java Content Repository specification. This implementation has been in production for several years within large productions environments with tens of thousands of users and millions of documents.

Ease of Use: eXo WCM makes it easy to create, approve and deploy content as part of an overall Java web application. Search, Favorites, Tagging, Voting, Cover Flows, Timelines, Versioning and Locking are all easily enabled for content users.

Customizability: eXo WCM can be customized to suit project needs. Users can change the content repository structure and use their own metadata, for example; choose from different content templates, or create new ones; and create specific views based on roles.

Extensibility: eXo WCM comes with ready extensions for adding document management and workflow. This package also includes a preview of a new authoring publication extension for more contextual and dynamic content life cycles. Users can create their own plugins and extensions to make eXo WCM work for them.

Flexibility: With eXo WCM, users can slice and dice their content in several ways and publish in multiple places with different workflows. Even if stored in just one repository, content can be classified in different hierarchies, tagged for public or private view and “favorited” so it can be quickly accessed from an individual’s private drive.

Supporting Quotes

Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo: “With eXo WCM, Java enterprises have a complete portal and content management system in a single software package — eliminating the need to cobble together solutions from different vendors. Anyone can start using eXo WCM on its own today. But for those enterprises looking for an elegant, integrated way to modernize their Java applications, eXo WCM is a hint of what’s to come with the eXo Platform.”

Getting Started

Getting started with eXo WCM video
Demo video: Authoring extension and REST services
Screenshots: file explorer and example homepage

Availability and Support

Download today
Commercial Production Support: eXo WCM 2.0 will be supported in the forthcoming eXo Platform 3.0, planned for later in 2010
Early Adopter Program includes one-year developer subscriptions and early access to other eXo offerings

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We are looking for an Inside Sales Rep with 3/5y of software sales experience to join our US team

Julien Brulland — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:06:13 +0000

Location: San Francisco, CA, US
Travel Involved: None
Job Type: Full Time
Job Level: 4+ years experience
Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
Category: Inside Sales

Position Summary:

The Role:

eXo is seeking an inside sales professional to sell eXo’s portfolio of open source solutions and services, sell the value of eXo technologies and make sales over the phone in response to inbound inquiries to eXo. The work location will be eXo’s office in, San Francisco, California.

The Inside Sales Associate is responsible for responding to in-bound inquiries and sell eXo’s comprehensive offerings. Will nurture and close opportunities with both new and existing customers, manage forecasts on a monthly basis and track customer data. Will also work cooperatively with internal and external partners to improve the velocity of business and to create solutions that serve the best interests of both the customers and eXo. Internal sales training will be offered to maintain the highest knowledge and proficiency in eXo offerings and industry trends.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a part of a dynamic, fast paced and growing organization where everyone makes an impact
• Represent company to customer and customer to company in sales-related matters
• Understand customer’s business and technology product requirements
• Sell eXo’s comprehensive solutions
• Manage forecasts, close deals, and track customer data using company standard CRM tools
• Be accountable for growing existing business relationships and acquiring new business
• Take responsibility for meeting assigned sales quota

Required Skills & Experience:

• A bachelors degree’ preferably in business administration, marketing or a technical discipline
• 4+ years of successful quota-carrying sales experience
• 4+ years of solution sales experience in high-tech products and/or services
• Experience leveraging CRM tools such as SalesForce.com
• Software sales experience desired
• Unix or Linux experience preferred
• Knowledge of UNIX, Linux, Windows and Application Server marketplaces

If you are ready for new challenges, send us your CV and cover letter here: Contact Us

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eXo Social 1.0 Released

Patrice Lamarque — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:38:19 +0000

Today we announced the availability of eXo Social 1.0. eXo Social provides an extension to the GateIn Portal Framework, to add social features to portal-based web apps; it also serves as a preview of some of the features of the future eXo Platform 3.0. Let’s take a closer look at what’s in the download (in addition to GateIn, which comes bundled with eXo Social 1.0).

Bringing users to the center

As a portal framework, GateIn is ready for enterprises, with strong support for LDAP and SSO. But is also a great application deployment platform, by reconciling server-side components, like portlets, with the Portal container and the portlet bridge for JSF. GateIn is perfect for the more mashup-oriented use cases, enabling easy development of gadgets. All around, it is especially well-suited for a corporate intranet.

Traditionally intranets have featured a mix of content and applications. Today, inspired by our observation of the consumer web, we want to bring another variable to the equation: people. Many intranet projects suffer because the lack of interest of the users – an intranet doesn’t engage, it provides top-down information sharing. Even on a well-structured intranet, finding a piece of information is often a pain.

eXo Social recognizes that users are more than just passive application operators and content consumers. They need to get the right information at the right time, have a voice, and exercise more control over their workflow.

eXo Social aims to revive your portal project by putting users in a more central place.

From a simple corporate directory to an Enterprise Social Network

The People module within eXo Social allows you to create a social network for existing portal users. Each portal user is added in a global directory, where users can search people by name and also by role, responsibility, experience and job skills. This makes it much easier to find domain experts for interdepartmental work. Each user has full control of the information he or she wants to publish in their profile.

We are talking about turning a company directory into an enterprise social network. eXo Social is able to do this with GateIn at the foundation. GateIn is very flexible in the way it lets you store the organization model (users, groups qnd roles). Under the hood, it’s the PicketLink IDM framework, which was designed for maximum adaptability.

There is a great step-by-step tutorial that explains how to configure GateIn to have the org model stored in an enterprise directory such as an LDAP or an Active Directory. Following these steps, all directory users will be instantly recognized as portal users. And portal users form the basis for eXo Social’s People directory.

But, enriching profiles and making them searchable is not enough. Indeed, there needs to be relationships between people to form a network. We do this by allowing users to connect with each other. Once two users are connected they will receive status updates about each other in their respective network activity streams. Connecting to someone else lets you follow his work. Users have full control of their connections, and can request or revoke connections at any time.

Community Management

In a corporate context, very often you need to go beyond individual connections and work collaboratively in a group. That’s where Spaces comes into play. A space is a group collaboration workspace within the portal.

How is it different from GateIn’s group pages? In GateIn, you can assign a set of pages to be viewable only to members of a group. A portal administrator will typically create a group, then initialize navigation, create a couple of pages and install some applications within it.

Spaces lets any user become a community manager by simply clicking a “add a new space” button. This will instantly and automatically create a new group, instanciate a navigation, predefine a layout and install a few initial pages: space home, dashboard, members and settings.

In a space, a community manager can add and remove applications to the workspace in a single-click. Behind the scenes, Spaces manages all the plumbing of creating a page, adding an application on it and setting up permissions. The available applications are coming from the GateIn Application Registry, so it’s still under the control of the portal admin. A “power” space manager can still have access to the page and application settings. Advanced managers can even completely edit the navigation and the layout of the pages. In fact, space mangers are local admins for their community, but the big difference it that they do not need extensive training to get started. Everything has been simplified to be ready to jam quickly!

Heads-up devs, it’s OpenSocial!

With the People and Spaces features within eXo Social, you have new tools to build vibrant intranet portals where people really interact. But you can go further. The support for gadgets offer great mashup capabilities, and they can be integrated as first-class applications with spaces or in classical dashboards.

eXo Social conforms to the OpenSocial specification. This means any eXo Social instance comes with an endpoint for the OpenSocial Social Server API, so developers can interact with the People and the Activities data directly. Client libraries are available for gadget developers, Java developers and also PHP developers.

There are also a number of extension points to help developers with integrations that further enhance the user experience.

As an example of it, take a look at this video that shows how a team of developers has tuned eXo Social for their own needs. They created activity streams for JIRA, Sonar and Hudson applications, which then publish application activity into a development team space.

To learn more about eXo Social 1.0, read the PR, visit the product page, or view all the resources available in the new eXo Resource Center.

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Always recruiting: inside sales rep needed in San Francisco!

Julien Brulland — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:19:50 +0000

Location: San Francisco, CA, US
Travel Involved: None
Job Type: Full Time
Job Level: 4+ years experience
Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent
Category: Inside Sales

Position Summary:

The Role:

Primary Responsibilities:

Required Skills & Experience:

If you are ready for new challenges, send us your CV and cover letter here: contact@exoplatform.com

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eXo at the “Solutions Intranet” Event in Paris – May 5th & 6th

Julien Brulland — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:14:33 +0000

eXo will attend the “Solutions Intranet et Travail Collaboratif” event on May 5th and 6th in Paris. Come to meet us to talk about Intranets and Collaborative Solutions eXo is offering. It also will be a nice opportunity to share about industry trends and new eXo developments.

Get you pass here.

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Great Job Opportunities at eXo

Julien Brulland — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:36:55 +0000

Want to be part of a fast growing company that is re-inventing how Java Middleware, Content Management, and Cloud Services can interact to deliver the best Web experience to the end-user? Then take a look at these great job opportunities and join the team at eXo!

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Webinar: How to Build a Multi-Tenancy Online Development Platform in Java

Katie Poplin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:13:23 +0000

The talk that Benjamin gave at the local Java SIG this week was so well-received, we decided to host an encore version as a webinar on 22 April, at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. Benjamin will demonstrate how the eXo Platform can be used as an online Java development platform to create public and private clouds. He will walk through the different technologies that eXo leverages, such as the GateIn open source portal framework, JAX-RS, Groovy and OpenSocial Gadgets. Specifically, attendees will learn how to:

use a JCR data store to model a cloud tenant
store and dynamically deploy JAX-RS services written in Groovy
store and dynamically deploy OpenSocial Gadgets that connect to previously online-created REST APIs
remotely expose those Gadgets to the public cloud

The complete abstract and other details are available on the registration page.

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eXo’s Apache Maven Expert on JUG Tour

Katie Poplin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:00:03 +0000

eXo’s very own Arnaud Hertier is going on tour, speaking at 6 upcoming JUG events throughout France and Switzerland. Arnaud is one of the key contributors to Apache Maven, and even co-authored a book on the subject (Apache Maven from Pearson). He’s going to be teaching Java developers how to leverage Maven as a tool through a development project lifecycle, covering topics like dependency management, continuous integration, metrics utilization, quality reports and more.

For our readers in France & Switzerland, here are some more details (in French, of course):

Arnaud Héritier, membre des communautés Apache Maven et Codehaus Mojo, et auteur du célèbre “Apache Maven”, viendra vous parler de l’utilisation de Maven en entreprise et des nouveautés de la version 3.x.

Software Factory Manager pour eXo, Arnaud vous présentera son retour d’expérience de l’utilisation de Maven dans une forge logicielle professionnelle : ce que Maven apporte à chaque étape de la construction d’un logiciel.
Arnaud abordera ainsi successivement comment maven intervient pour chacune de ces étapes:

* le build du projet sur le poste du développeur
* la gestion des dépendances et des dépôts
* la mise en place de l’intégration continue
* l’utilisation des métriques et des rapports de qualité
* le déploiement continu

Arnaud Héritier en quelques mots:

“Arnaud Héritier est Software Factory Manager chez eXo. Il est actuellement en charge des méthodes et outils afin d’améliorer la qualité des produits, et la productivité des équipes en interne, mais aussi chez les intégrateurs et clients.

Passionné par le développement de logiciels, Arnaud a rejoint en 2004 la communauté Open Source du projet Apache Maven. Il est ensuite entré dans son comité de direction en 2005. Il participe également à la rédaction d’un ouvrage sur le sujet en Français avec un autre membre du projet : Nicolas de Loof.

Arnaud participe dès que possible aux événements communautaires pour partager sa passion (Java Users Groups, Java BarCamps, …).

Il viens de publier avec quelques ex-collègues un livre blanc chez OCTO Technology : Java Productivity Primer, Twelve guidelines to boost your productivity with a software factory. Ce dernier est disponible gratuitement en téléchargement en Français et en Anglais.”

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eXo at the Next Java SIG Meeting on April 6, in Palo Alto, CA

Katie Poplin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:45:52 +0000

Benjamin has been invited to speak at the next Java SIG in Palo Alto. If you’re in the area, come join us! Here are the details:

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM April 6, 2010
Cubberley
4000 Middlefield Rd., RM H-1
Palo Alto, CA
94105
Title: How to build a multi-tenancy online development platform in Java Abstract: … or, more specifically, how to build a multi-tenancy online development platform in Java thanks to JCR, JAX-RS, OpenSocial Gadgets, Groovy and GateIn? Building traditional Java UI applications requires a long development cycle. This presentation will show how eXo leverages several Java specifications to assemble an online application development platform that can be used to build private and public clouds. This presentation is intended for Java developers and architects that would like to expand their knowledge to new concepts related to cloud and online agile development. We will see how a JCR repository data store can be used to: * model a cloud tenant * to store and dynamically deploy JAX-RS services written in Groovy * to store and dynamically deploy OpenSocial Gadgets that connect to previously online-created REST APIs * to remotely expose those Gadgets to the public cloud For more information, check out the Java SIG page.

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GateIn 3.0 Released

Katie Poplin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:42:33 +0000

After months of collaboration between the eXo and JBoss Portal development communities, GateIn 3.0 is GA. Download it or get more info about the project here. Also, be sure to check out the official introduction to the project in the Red Hat & eXo webinar Thursday.

Congratulations to the entire team for all their hard work!

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eXo Funding – Seen on the Web

Julien Brulland — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:22:12 +0000

Nothing generates press quite like announcing that you’ve been given $6 million in VC funding! We were excited to see so much support for eXo in the form of articles and blogs around the US and Europe. Here’s a quick recap of some of the coverage:

In the US:

CMS Wire, “eXo Raises US$ 6 Million to Boost U.S. Operations”	PE Hub, “eXo Raises $6 Million”
The 451 Group, “Open source portal play eXo Platform takes $6m series A”	VentureBeat, “eXo Raises $6 Million to build Java applications”
Silicon Tap, “eXo Snags $6M More”	Silicon Valley Wire/Bay Area Techwire, “San Francisco’s eXo raises 6 million to expand US expansion”
Sacha Labourey, “eXo Platform raises 6m USD”	CTO Edge, “Melding Transactions with Collaboration”

From France and Europe:

TechCrunch Europe, “eXo raises €4 million for US expansion”	Silicon, “eXo Platform lève 4 millions d’euros”
Le Monde Informatique, “L’éditeur français Exo Platform lève quatre millions d’euros”	Le Mag IT, “Le Français eXo Platform lève 4 M€ pour développer son partenariat avec Red Hat”
Le Journal Du Net, “eXo Platform lève 4 millions d’euros”

The original press release can be read here: “eXo Accelerates U.S. Operations with $6 Million Series A Financing”.

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Red Hat & eXo Webinar Next Week: GateIn and the Future of Portals

Katie Poplin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:31 +0000

In case you missed it in the newsletter, we will be co-presenting a webinar with Red Hat next week to kick off the availability of the GateIn 3.0 portal project. Our own Tug Grall, who leads up eXo’s product strategy and management, will be presenting along with Jason Andersen of Red Hat. There are 2 live events in the same day, Thursday 18 March: 9am ET / 1pm GMT, and an encore session at 2pm ET / 6pm GMT. From the abstract published on Red Hat’s site:

Throughout 2009 Red Hat made a number of announcements about the GateIn project, which represents the next generation of enterprise portal technologies. It is intended to form the foundation for Red Hat’s future portal infrastructure products and aims to enable organizations to easily create and manage rich portal-based application experiences.

GateIn 3.0 is now complete and in this webinar we will delve into the details of this exciting project! Join us to hear about our milestones and learn more about the future of JBoss portal technologies. Topics we will cover include:

future plans for the GateIn project

the commencement of a managed beta program

the Red Hat eXo relationship

For more info or to register, visit the webinar registration page here.

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