ObjectWeb and eXo Platform SARL today announced the availability of the first 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.

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.