Exo Platform News & Articles

eXo (news, site), the makers of Java middleware and open source Enterprise CMS, got a VC infusion of US$ 6 million. eXo plans to use the money to strengthen its U.S. operations, especially in the areas of sales and marketing. The new Board of Directors should provide the needed executive leadership in the expansion.

Following Apache Chemistry’s suit, another Java-based and open source implementation of the CMIS specification hit the streets. Meet xCMIS -- a server side implementation of CMIS developed by eXo (news, site).

Currently in xCMIS 1.0 beta1, xCMIS supports eXo's Java Content Repository (JCR), third-party CMIS clients, new eXo CMIS client based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT), and an integration with the GateIn portal.

The implementation is done according to Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) version 1.0 draft 06 for REST AtomPub and Web Services (SOAP/WSDL) protocol bindings.

So far, the implementation (packaged as J2EE .war, or as an Apache Tomcat bundle) includes the following:

• CMIS server
• InMemory for testing purpose
• Client for accessing CMIS-compliant repositories

eXo reports that it has tested their implementation with other CMIS clients, such as IBM CMIS Firefox Connector and CMIS Spaces Flex+AIR client.

Curious? Check out these resources:

• Downloads are available here
• Source code is hosted on Google
• More project info is here
• Play with the latest demos

A new OEM agreement between eXo Platform (news, site)  and open source business process management( BPM) developer BonitaSoft means that from here on, eXo’s document management software will be integrated with an open source BPM system that has full development and support services for easy deployment.

The agreement between the two follows a number of years working together which resulted in the release of eXo’s DMS with Bonita’s BPM earlier this year. With this new agreement, the two companies will be offering users dedicated support and services for the new product that includes a document collaboration and validation system as well as automated records management.

Another European company has announced that it is opening a US office. This time the location is San Francisco and the company is open source solution provider eXo (news, site).

This follows the announcement in June this year that Red Hat’s JBoss Portal, eXo's Portal and eXo's Java Client Repository (JCR) were all to be merged into a single product that strikes the right balance of robustness and usability.

It is hardly any wonder then that the new board of advisors that will be helping eXo founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet to break into the US has a strong Red Hat presence including Sacha Labourey, a former middleware co-general manager who participated in negotiations on the eXo/Red Hat partnership before joining eXo.

eXo (news, site) has taken its relationship with RedHat one step further today by offering the first major deliverable that adds its enterprise content management and collaboration software into the new JBoss GateIn portal.

eXo (news, site) has released the latest version of their Document Management System -- DMS 2.5 -- with improvements that offer users the ability to change unstructured content into structured content .

This, the company says will be done across all the document processes that are capturing, managing, storing, preserving and delivering documents while at the same time securely distributing it.

The kicker is that users can do this in the same way they might use File Explorer on Windows and File Finder on MacOSX.

Two Java-based portal projects are merging code bases in order to create a best of breed result through their combined strengths: eXo Platform SAS (news, site) and Red Hat's JBoss (news, site).

The goal? To merge JBoss Portal, eXo's Portal and eXo's Java Client Repository (JCR) into a single project that strikes the right balance of robustness and usability.

eXo Platform is a French company focused on delivering an open source collaborative software suite. Around since 2003 and offering solutions like Portal, Enterprise Content Mangement, Collaboration and more, we decided to take a closer look to see what eXo was all about.