eXo WebOS Technology

eXo WebOS : a revolutionary and intuitive interface

Because portal users want to use latest technologies, eXo Platform developed a revolutionary portal interface: the eXo Portal WebOS. The aim of eXo WebOS is to reproduce the environment of classic operating systems, where you can easily find your useful applications and organize your work space through desktop windows that can be maximized or minimized. Application windows can also be moved in the desktop and from a desktop to another enabling you organize your working environment according to your preferences and requirements.

While you can easily launch applications through the “Mac OS-like” dock, you can edit your preferences in a simple way through the “Windows-like” start button. Moreover eXo WebOS enable you to quickly switch between your virtual desktops and to arrange each according to your environment preferences.

eXo WebOS comes with 3 skins for the usual and WebOS layouts:

• an eXo skin
• a Mac OS like skin
• a Vista like skin

eXo WebOS : a user oriented solution

eXo WebOS, like eXo Portal, is accessible from anywhere at anytime. Installing and updating applications is no longer a problem as nearly no computer knowledge is needed and thus, anyone can add services in less than two minutes. Users can use portlets developed by the company, install third party applications using JSR 168/286 standards.

Moreover Widgets use is a hot topic in the consumer area, they are now part of PC or Mac desktops. Little by little they are entering the enterprise world to provide information on the IT system status. In eXo Solutions, widgets are natively part of the Portal product to provide a simple and easy way for users to get information and notifications on their applications. They complete the portlet application that target more transactional behaviors. In fact widgets inside the WebOS layout have exactly the same granularity as the Mac OS widgets.

eXo WebOS : Technology and Adaptability to your portal

Thanks to an extensive use of Web 2.0 technologies (AJAX and Javascript), it is now possible to reproduce inside a browser the complete behavior of a typical Operating System such as Windows Vista or Mac OS. Applications are built using W3C standards and leverage the Portlet API specification which defines a common set of rules to build WebOS applications.

Based on eXo Portal, the eXo WebOS interface brings to your company the same benefits:

The eXo framework enables your IT department to build flexible SOA based solutions, and to be scaled to your organization whatever its size. This flexible solution lets your company adapt to fast changing environments by enabling you to easily deploy the services needed tomorrow, all at significantly lower costs. It supports major industry standards like portlet technologies JSR 168/286 and Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) with bridges capabilities for JavaServer Faces (JSF), Spring, Struts and JSP. Its flexible deployment architecture offers options for efficiently sharing portal resources and managing portal security. Security capabilities in eXo Portal simplify integration and deployment.

Thanks to single sign-on (SSO), which can be combined to a LDAP server epending on you security requirements, you are able to easily manage authentication and the personalization of content from services depending on who you are and your role within your groups. eXo Portal leverage a unified service that manages users, groups and the relationships between them. That information can be stored in a database or in a LDAP directory (including Active Directory). eXo Portal relies on Java standards (JAAS) for propagating the user identity and roles from the directory to the application server.