July 31, 2006; 03:30 AM
ObjectWeb and eXo Platform SARL announced the availability of
their complete open-source content management and repository
solutions that allow users to create, manage and store documents from a
customized, single point-of-access Web portal.
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The newly available capabilities - eXo Enterprise Content Management (
ECM ) and eXo Java Content Repository ( JCR ) - make it simple for IT
developers to create Web portals for document collaboration and
information sharing. The software is integrated as part of ObjectWeb
code base.
"After contributing the first JSR 168 compliant
Enterprise Portal in the market to ObjectWeb, today the eXo project is
delivering one of the very first JSR 170 implementations and the ECM
upper stack to the ObjectWeb consortium," said Francois Letellier,
executive director of the ObjectWeb consortium. "By leveraging several
other consortium projects, such as SpagoBI, Bonita, Lomboz and JOnAS to
name a few, the team is taking advantage of the ecosystem to create
open source collaboration that works and that we will continue to
promote."
With the addition of eXo Platform to ObjectWeb's
portfolio in November 2004, the consortium added a web application
suite layer to its extensive roster of open-source middleware
components, which includes: JOnAS, the first non-commercial open-source
application server to be certified compliant with J2EE( TM ) 1.4;
Bonita, an enhanced workflow engine; and SpagoBI, the Business
Intelligence Free Platform. Today this suite is growing with a strong
ECM layer.
"The project development of the Venice District news
portal has been carried out with success using eXo Portal and the new
eXo ECM and eXo JCR components," said Gabriele Ruffatti, architecture
and consulting director of the Research & Innovation division at
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica. "The great added value of the
platform comes from the ECM and JCR integration within the portal
environment which makes our work much easier and greatly enhances our
productivity."
"The new site, realized by means of a full open
source stack, provides more information and services to the citizens
plus from an ethical perspective, we prefer open source software," said
Franca Sallustio, chief of the IT department of the Venice District in
Italy.
The full source code of eXo Platform is available for download from the ObjectWeb web site ( http://www.objectweb.org/
) under the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), and can be embedded,
modified and/or redistributed freely under the terms of this license.
About eXo Enterprise Content Management
The
eXo Enterprise Content Management software enables users to securely
create and manage personalized information content. Users will see only
content and workflow according to defined rules within specified
groups. The product comes with workflow administration function and
advanced templating and scripting capabilities.
About eXo Java Content Repository
This
is one of only three JSR 170 implementations available today in the
large ECM market dominated by high-priced, proprietary alternatives.
JCR allows for storing, structuring, versioning and locking content and
comes with many client libraries for server queries: WebDAV and RMI as
well as a REST API, which integrates with rich editors such as
FCKEditor to manipulate remotely stored content such as images or flash
movies.
The JCR software can be deployed either standalone or
with other eXo products. Its advanced security works with most RDBM,
OpenLDAP and ActiveDirectory implementations.
Venice District news portal: http://poloest.provincia.venezia.it/ecm/
About eXo Platform SARL
eXo
Platform SARL is a privately-held company created in November 2003 to
provide dual licenses, services and support for the popular open-source
project eXo platform, a powerful, corporate portal and enterprise
content management system. Its goal is to provide portal platform
technology that offers the lowest cost of ownership via open-source
software licenses backed up by expert technical support services. eXo
platform SARL has opened offices in France, Brazil, Ukraine and
Vietnam. An office in Houston will open in September 2006.
http://www.exoplatform.com
About ObjectWeb
Founded
in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of
leading companies and research organizations from around the world who
have joined forces to produce the next generation of open-source
Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with
independent solutions which combine quality and robustness at the best
possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb targets alternative
solutions to proprietary products for e-business, EAI, data
connectivity, grid computing, enterprise messaging and business
intelligence. Based on open standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes
application servers, components, frameworks and tools.
http://www.objectweb.org/
eXo
Platform is a registered trademark of eXo Platform SARL. Java, J2EE,
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of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Other
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management's plans and objectives for future operations, and
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