Exo News & Articles

Back in 2009, eXo (news, site) and Red Hat (news, site) banded together to create an enterprise-level portal. Now that portal has reached a new milestone in its maturation and growth.

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

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.