Open Source is a great way to have your software distributed globaly all over the world and the common language for that is english.
But once you have made the first contact, a localized platform is really needed.
With our main market being in Europe, we have the luck to have some customers that ask us to translate the platform in many languages.
The last translation we made is German
Translating eXo Platform is really a simple task as all the labels are stored in a set of properties files. Feel free to contact us if you want to contribute a language
eXo team has been working hard to build a full featured collaboration suite that sits on top of eXo Portal. CS 1.0 applications are rich portlets that run on top of eXo Portal 2.0 or eXo WebOS 1.0.
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 !
Bonita team, lead by Miguel Valdes from Bull SAS, and eXo Platform SAS have worked hard to show the first demo of the new Bonita and Orchestra consoles based on eXo WebOS at JavaOnce - San Francisco.
Bonita is a powerful Open Source workflow engine based on the new Process Virtual Machine (PVM) engine model. Orchestra is a BPEL engine, both share the same kernel.
In the new screenshots you can see the eXo WebOS environment customized for the monitoring consoles, it is possible to see the existing processes, their instances, the activities in the pipe as well as all the task list for users and groups!
As part of the incoming new product eXo Knowledge Suite (eXo KS) we today show you the first screenshots of eXo FAQ application.
This is a small but very useful application that let you manage categories of questions with some extremely efficient features such as moderation, question references or the ability to only display then unanswered questions.
Create categories and sub categories of questions:
It includes many many features and today I will introduce one of my favorite: the different views available to read the mail list.
The first one is the thread view which displays the related message in a tree as shown in the next screenshot:
In fact there exist 3 default views: the normal list view, the threaded view and the conversation view
Patrick Cambier is Bull Belgium Open Source Business Unit manager.
In this video (in French) he introduces the work done at the SPF Finance (Ministry of Finance in Belgium) and especially the first demo of eXo Video and eXo Whiteboard applications that are part of eXo Liveroom incoming product (along with eXo Chat previously introduced).
