This article revisits the open source eXo platform, detailing the most recent release in the first of two articles, discussing eXo's migration from a mere portal to a full product line incorporating the Java Content Repository API, enterprise content management, business intelligence, and groupware.
Read "eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and Business Intelligence"
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Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more (32 messages)
- Posted by: Joseph Ottinger
- Posted on: December 06 2005 12:04 EST
Threaded Messages (32)
- Well done eXo ! by Ludovic Dubost on December 07 2005 16:58 EST
- Well done eXo ! by Guillaume Laforge on December 08 2005 16:53 EST
- Well done eXo ! by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 09 2005 06:41 EST
- Well done eXo ! by Guillaume Laforge on December 08 2005 16:53 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 07 2005 17:03 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Xavier MOGHRABI on December 07 2005 17:55 EST
- Many improvements for the Release ! by Xavier MOGHRABI on December 07 2005 17:53 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Klaus Steinsland Myrseth on December 07 2005 18:31 EST
- Congratulations for v2 by Daniel on December 07 2005 19:11 EST
- Congratulations for v2 by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 07 2005 19:17 EST
- eXo & Workflow by Miguel Valdes Faura on December 08 2005 08:19 EST
- JOnAS support of eXo Portal by Brice Revenant on December 08 2005 13:12 EST
- JOnAS support of eXo Portal by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 09 2005 06:37 EST
- Congrats by Punit Pandey on December 08 2005 13:58 EST
- Congrats by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 09 2005 06:38 EST
- Bravo ! to eXo team by Jean-Francois PAQUEROT on December 09 2005 05:22 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Francois Letellier on December 09 2005 06:27 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 09 2005 06:45 EST
- Future integration with Petals Services Platform by Rafael Marins on December 09 2005 07:48 EST
- Future integration with Petals Services Platform by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 11 2005 12:57 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 10 2005 14:01 EST
- Congratulations by vikramark singh on December 11 2005 11:26 EST
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Congratulations by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 11 2005 12:49 EST
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Congratulations by Mark N on December 14 2005 08:15 EST
- Congratulations by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 15 2005 04:36 EST
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Congratulations by Mark N on December 14 2005 08:15 EST
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Congratulations by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 11 2005 12:49 EST
- Congratulations by vikramark singh on December 11 2005 11:26 EST
- Does it run on Weblogic? by Martin Denham on December 12 2005 05:27 EST
- Does it run on Weblogic? by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 12 2005 06:00 EST
- Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more by Davide Dalle Carbonare on December 12 2005 10:48 EST
- What about Byline project (formerly Red hat product) by Florent Vincent on December 14 2005 04:22 EST
- What about Byline project (formerly Red hat product) by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 15 2005 16:32 EST
- GPL license and standards by Daniele Gariboldi on December 29 2005 17:04 EST
- GPL license and standards by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 31 2005 20:18 EST
- Does it run on WebSphere? by Erwin Karbasi on October 04 2006 04:43 EDT
- GPL license and standards by Benjamin Mestrallet on December 31 2005 20:18 EST
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Well done eXo ![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Ludovic Dubost
- Posted on: December 07 2005 16:58 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Well done eXo ! XWiki is looking forward to eXo Groupware in 2006.. -
Well done eXo ![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Guillaume Laforge
- Posted on: December 08 2005 16:53 EST
- in response to Ludovic Dubost
Yup, well done to the whole eXo Platform team!
It's a real pleasure to see such an awesome product progressing that quickly.
Moreover, it's also very nice to see different teams helping each other as this has been the case here: the Groovy team is really pleased to have helped you with your integration of Groovy.
And we would also like to thank you and the XWiki team for having generously sponsored a wonderful dinner during the recent Groovy / JSR-241 conference. -
Well done eXo ![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 09 2005 06:41 EST
- in response to Guillaume Laforge
Moreover, it's also very nice to see different teams helping each other as this has been the case here: the Groovy team is really pleased to have helped you with your integration of Groovy.
Yes that was a great help. Without it, it would have taken us much more time to enable a sub JCR tree to become a Groovy class path and therefore to allow optimized groovy scripts online modifications.And we would also like to thank you and the XWiki team for having generously sponsored a wonderful dinner during the recent Groovy / JSR-241 conference.
Oops, more photos of me with glasses of wine in the hand...:) -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 07 2005 17:03 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Yes we are back
Here are some URL that may add value that first part of the article:
*Regarding Business Intelligence
eXo demo : http://spagobi.eng.it:8080/portal/faces/public/exo
project : http://forge.objectweb.org/projects
*Regarding Groupware
xWiki : www.xwiki.org
SyncEx : www.syncex.com -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Xavier MOGHRABI
- Posted on: December 07 2005 17:55 EST
- in response to Benjamin Mestrallet
Concerning SpagoBI the URL of the project is:
http://spagobi.objectweb.org -
Many improvements for the Release ![ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Xavier MOGHRABI
- Posted on: December 07 2005 17:53 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Great work !
The eXo Portal 1.1 is a major contribution to ObjectWeb's community, it brings a lot of advanced features comparing to other Open Source portal. -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Klaus Steinsland Myrseth
- Posted on: December 07 2005 18:31 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Great, I've been waiting a long time for your v2 now. All those nifty features complete our toolbox perfectly for the work we do against our customers.
We developed and deployed sucessfull sollutions on the v1 allready and we are eagerly waiting for a release of v2 as this release seems to promise far more than the excelent v1 did. -
Congratulations for v2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Daniel
- Posted on: December 07 2005 19:11 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Hi,benj, congratulations for the v2 and your team's hard working. It's amazing to see so many components and subprojects added to exo which enrich the meaning of the portal greatly!
I'm busy with my final paper and final project now,And I can't get on the yahoo messager for my school's firewall,so I just congratulation here!
As I see there is a BI project! But I can't visit it's demo site now. I'm using a open source data miner weka for my final project now,and it works greatly.
Danny -
Congratulations for v2[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 07 2005 19:17 EST
- in response to Daniel
Hey Danny
Been a while
Wish you best for your exams.
Weka is also integrated in SpagoBI for the DataMining part. Great tool indeed. -
eXo & Workflow[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Miguel Valdes Faura
- Posted on: December 08 2005 08:19 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Good work Benjamin ! congratulations for the v2 from both Bonita and JOnAS project teams. Hope the JOnAS version of eXo will be available pretty soon.
I'm eager to read the second article, specially the chapter concerning the workflow support.
Miguel -
JOnAS support of eXo Portal[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Brice Revenant
- Posted on: December 08 2005 13:12 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Hi,
Miguel- you did not have to wait for a too long time.
JOnAS version of eXo Portal 1.1RC1 is now downloadable from this link: http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151.
The next step is the integration of Bonita Workflow and eXo. That way the ObjectWeb ecosystem can be totally leveraged.
Thank you to Benjamin and his team for this release and, above all, for opening me the doors of this great project!
-Brice. -
JOnAS support of eXo Portal[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 09 2005 06:37 EST
- in response to Brice Revenant
Yes thanks Brice
JOnAS distribution is now available, Geronimo, Weblogic and JBoss ones will come later...
Actually we are porting all our build from Maven 1 to Maven 2 and we still need to support those platform EAR deployment.
But what great enhancements in M2 whith huge enhancements in building performance!!! -
Congrats[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Punit Pandey
- Posted on: December 08 2005 13:58 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Congratulations Benjamin. We are ready to go with eXo v2 :-). Great work!!!! Community will soon see our Collaboration porlets on eXo v2. -
Congrats[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 09 2005 06:38 EST
- in response to Punit Pandey
Yes porting JSR 168 portlets that were working in version 1 to version 2 should just be done with a simple copy and paste... -
Bravo ! to eXo team[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Jean-Francois PAQUEROT
- Posted on: December 09 2005 05:22 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
for this release of the v2 and the continuously growing eXO platform. -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Francois Letellier
- Posted on: December 09 2005 06:27 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Congrats to all the eXo Platform team. Looks like eXo is gaining good momentum and is becoming a reference in open source portals these days...
Nice synerby with other ObjectWeb projects too: SpagoBI, JOnAS, etc. Keep up the good work.
PS: hey TSS team -- a hint; maybe you should use eXo too, TSS would probably be a little more stable ;-)! -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 09 2005 06:45 EST
- in response to Francois Letellier
hey TSS team -- a hint; maybe you should use eXo too, TSS would probably be a little more stable ;-)!
Francois, let's have ObjectWeb site on eXo first :-) -
Future integration with Petals Services Platform[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Rafael Marins
- Posted on: December 09 2005 07:48 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Great work Benjamin and eXo Team. I really like the idea of seeing eXo v2 featured product line integrated with Petals Services Platform, as a distinguished offer to a SOA integration approach.
http://petals.objectweb.org
All best!
--
Rafael Marins
Fossil E-Commerce -
Future integration with Petals Services Platform[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 11 2005 12:57 EST
- in response to Rafael Marins
Thanks Rafael
There can be two ways integration of portal platform in an ESB platform.
First we can monitor through the portal all the statitics info the bus can log (and even more if we introduce BI...).
Second, the portal platform itself can expose some services to the bus (thanks to webdesrvices and JBI) such as organisational info.
We had some interesting discussion with you on that in our last meeting in Hanoi, VN for the Object conference and hope to see you in Paris in january for the ObjectWeb conf 2006 but that's a long trip from Brasil (http://objectwebcon06.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome).
Note that we also discussed with James Strachan from ServiceMix during the last Groovy JSR meeeting in Paris. And portal in an ESB is definitively an important piece....BEA will probably not say I am wrong :) -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 10 2005 14:01 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Also we have released the new version of plugin that works with v2 directory structure
eXo Platform Eclipse Plugin v2.0.0 is available for download at http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/exoplatform/ -
Congratulations[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: vikramark singh
- Posted on: December 11 2005 11:26 EST
- in response to Benjamin Mestrallet
This release will surely give a boost to open source portal market. Business Intelligence through portals adds a new dimension to this market.
Congrats and wishing all the very best to exo team for their fine efforts.
Regards,
Vikramark -
Congratulations[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 11 2005 12:49 EST
- in response to vikramark singh
Indeed Vik,
That will also boot the BI commercial market as vendors like BO or Cognos just tend to move towards a web unified platform to present in the same site all the different types of reports ....but in non standards way as none of those vendors provide JSR 168 compliant portals.
Also when you see that BO licenses are around 1000 euros per user, that only 20% of the capabilities are used than you can see the huge market that Open Source portal and BI solutions can grasp with that new BI web unified platform trend! -
Congratulations[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Mark N
- Posted on: December 14 2005 08:15 EST
- in response to Benjamin Mestrallet
Also when you see that BO licenses are around 1000 euros per user, that only 20% of the capabilities are used than you can see the huge market that Open Source portal and BI solutions can grasp with that new BI web unified platform trend!
That is a good thought. I have been trying to push another opensource portal (I didn't know about SpagoBI at the time) and it just seems like management is not interested. I can't understand why they don't want to spend money in places it can be really used. -
Congratulations[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 15 2005 16:36 EST
- in response to Mark N
Depends on companies (large or small) but many, and more and more management, go the open source way for cost reduction.
Why pay more for a product that is not even better :)
Contact us if you need BI products for an affordable price. -
Does it run on Weblogic?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Martin Denham
- Posted on: December 12 2005 05:27 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Looks like a great product.
Can you tell me if it runs on Weblogic?
-Martin -
Does it run on Weblogic?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 12 2005 06:00 EST
- in response to Martin Denham
We have not tested on Weblogic yet
So far it is working on
- Tomcat 5.0.x
- Tomcat 5.5.x
- JOnAS 4.5.3
- JBoss 4.0.3sp3
You can contact us directly if you are interested in making version 2 work for Weblogic 8 or 9 -
Article: eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and more[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Davide Dalle Carbonare
- Posted on: December 12 2005 10:48 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Congratulations to Benjamin, Tuan, and all eXo team for the great work that as been done.
I'm already working with v2, and seen many improvements from v1.
Very nice service based organization.
keep going on this way!
cheers,
Davide. -
What about Byline project (formerly Red hat product)[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Florent Vincent
- Posted on: December 14 2005 04:22 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Good news for the eXo Platform
But does the Byline project still alive ?
No release since August 31, 2004 ...
Definition of Byline =
Suite of enterprise applications that include content management, portal, and collaboration capabilities.
http://byline.objectweb.org/ -
What about Byline project (formerly Red hat product)[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 15 2005 16:32 EST
- in response to Florent Vincent
You are right it is dead :)
They entered ObjectWeb at the same time as us but did not continue the effort as the product was based on older technologies.
They did not find their community... -
GPL license and standards[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Daniele Gariboldi
- Posted on: December 29 2005 17:04 EST
- in response to Joseph Ottinger
Exoplatform is a great work, and a bundle of good open source projects.
The whole is released under GPL, and that's ok.
I have a portlet based ecommerce solution under a proprietary license. It's portlet and JSF standards based, so it's not linked to your solution and it can be hosted in other portals.
My dependencies are on standards, licensed by Sun and others, so installing your solution and configuring it for my portlets is like installing a commercial application in Linux, isn't it? I say, my product can legally be not GPL licensed.
I read a lot, and for a long time, about GPL, but I ask you to express your view on this specific point.
Talking about containers and standard-API implementations, I think GPL is, actually, less restrictive than for custom libraries or applications.
Willing to clarify, greatings, bye. -
GPL license and standards[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Benjamin Mestrallet
- Posted on: December 31 2005 20:18 EST
- in response to Daniele Gariboldi
Hi Daniele
First, let me tell you that I read your post on Javalobby and that I hope that now you know eXo you think it is the best of the Open Source (and hopefully closed source) portals.
For us as long as you don't distribute eXo with your portlets then of course you don't need to use the GPL license for it. Just let your customer install eXo by itself as he would indeed fo for any Linux solution.
The important point is the distribution notion.
Nevertheless, if you want to leverage a preconfigured eXo configuration with your portal and distribute it to your customers then you will need to either use the GPL license or the commercial one.
HTH -
Does it run on WebSphere?[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Erwin Karbasi
- Posted on: October 04 2006 04:43 EDT
- in response to Benjamin Mestrallet
Hi, Does eXo run on WebSphere? What i need to do to run it on WebSphere. We want convert all our portal from WebSphere Portal to eXo, is it posible? Erwin Development Architect