[eXo Platform] TheServerSide articles and new releases

[Benjamin Mestrallet <benjamin.mestrallet@xxxxxxx>]

New TSS articles:
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http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=eXoPlatform
http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=eXoPlatform2

New release downloads:
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http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151


New Product features:
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eXo Portal 1.1 RC3
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   * Web Content Accessibility (US 508/WCAG 1.0 compliance)
   * Rules Engine (JSR 94)
   * Enhanced Security
   * Advanced LDAP Support
   * Chart Capabilities
   * Drag and Drop

eXo JCR 1.0 RC2
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This product is an implementation of the JSR 170 specification that  
includes level 1, 2 ,most of the optional specified and proprietary  
features:

    * Repository access (including JNDI)
    * JAAS based authentication/authorization
    * Session/Workspace/Item read/write methods
    * Namespaces support/remapping/registration
    * Permission control
    * Multiple workspace, references and UUID
    * Node Type support/registration
    * Nodes moving/copying/cloning
    * Same name sibling and nodes ordering
    * XML Import/Export
    * XPath and JCR-SQL query
    * Observation
    * Versioning
    * Locking
    * J2EE Resource Adapter (RAR) for JCR implementation

More than 90% of JCR TCK tests are now passed.

The implementation has pluggable backend storage, default backend is  
any Hibernate compatible relational database.

Along with JCR implementation this release includes sample JCR Web  
application bundles:

    * Tomcat 5.0 (and instructions for Tomcat5.5)
    * JBoss and JOnAS tested RAR/WAR (EAR-like) bundle
    * WebLogic 9.1 (EAR-like) bundle

eXo ECM 1.0 RC1
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This product is based on eXo JCR (JSR 170) implementation and offers  
advanced Enterprise Content Management features

    * List, Mac 3 columns or Thumbnails views
    * Advanced security: documents are tied to users or roles in groups
    * Category Management
    * Locking
    * Content Structuration
    * Meta data managment
    * Versioning (restore, diff visualisation...)
    * WebDAV: upload content to the JCR
    * Action concept: Validation and Publication Workflows, Business  
Process, Script or business rules can be dynamically activated when a  
document is added, removed or read
    * Groovy scripting language
    * Template language based on Velocity and Java Server Faces (JSF)
    * XML import/export


Happy new year

The eXo team