eBox Technologies to give two presentations at the GCDS’09, July 3-11 in Canary Islands (Spain)

Posted on June 29, 2009
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Ignacio Correas, CEO of eBox Technologies and Javier Uruen, CTO of eBox Technologies will give presentations within the Local Program of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GCDS) taking place from the 3rd until the 11th of July in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands (Spain).

Ignacio Correas will deliver his presentation entitled “Development of a business model based on eBox Platform” on the 8th of July. The presentation will highlight the role played by the eBox Platform community in the creation of the company and the motives for choosing the current, channel-centered business model. Besides, Correas will also explain the current market opportunity for a unified network server such as eBox Platform.

On the same day, 8th of July, Javier Uruen will give a three-hour workshop entitled “Introduction to the development of eBox Platform modules”. “eBox Platform has two main aims” explains Javier Uruen, and continues “first of all, we aim to provide an easy-to-use unified network server and secondly, we aim to provide a development framework to ease the development of new Unix based services”. “During this workshop we will show how to develop new eBox Platform modules and we will implement a module that manages an Unix-based service”.

If you are interested in participating in the GCDS, we encourage you to register at the GCDS web site. If you are interested in having a face-to-face meeting with the eBox crew, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@ebox-technologies.com We will be staying in the Canary Islands from the 3rd until the 11th of July.

Openfire: Introducing Tinder, an XMPP object implementation library

Posted on June 24, 2009
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We’ve just released a new project, named Tinder. Tinder is a new Java based XMPP library, providing an implementation for XMPP stanzas and components.

 

Tinders origins lie in code that’s shared between Jive Software’s Openfire and Whack implementations. The implementation that’s provided in Tinder hasn’t been written again from scratch. Instead, code has been moved from the original projects into Tinder, preserving al of the existing features and functionality. Most of the code that’s now in Tinder is based on the org.xmpp package implementation that previously existed in Openfire and Whack. This is the code that defines classes such as Packet, JID, IQ, Component and their extensions. Additionally, some multi-purpose code (such as the DataForm and Result Set Management implementations have been moved to Tinder as well.

 

Why a new project?

 

Parts of the code of Openfire are useful in other contexts than that of an XMPP server implementation. Developers might, for instance, want to use the XMPP stanza implementation within other projects. Having to include Openfire as a dependency of such a project is quite a bit of overkill. In such an example, it would be useful to have a small project that you can include, that offers you a lightweight XMPP object implementation, without the rest of the features that Openfire offers. Enter Tinder. Tinder will allow developers to re-use parts of Openfire, without having to include Openfire itself.

 

There’s other benefits to Tinder though:

 

Tinder will replace some most of the duplicate code that’s currently shared in Openfire, Whack and ConnectionManager projects. Removing duplicate code will make it easier to maintain and develop these projects. By delegating the implementation and maintenance of the low-level XMPP implementation, Openfire, Whack and other developers will be able to focus on the development that adds value to their project.

 

On the flip-side of that medal, you can argue that the ‘core’ code that will make up Tinder deserves a bit of dedicated development attention (unit tests, bug-tracking, stuff like that). This would benefit any attempt to really fine-tune the code, for example for high-performance tuning. Currently, the code is a bit put in the shadows of the other projects (of which they are part of).

 

So, will this replace Smack (the library that provides the base of Spark)?

 

No, definitely not. Smack offers a full-fledged XMPP client implementation, while Tinder only defines some XMPP building blocks. Tinder provides some basic objects on which a client library such as Smack could be build. However, Smack does not share the same code base as Openfire and Whack do. It’s therefor unlikely that Tinder and Smack will be merged in the foreseeable future - there’s simply to much difference.

 

What’s next?

 

We’ve wrapped up a initial roadmap, in which we capture the first steps of the development of Tinder. As always, you’re invited to contribute. We’re looking forward to hear your suggestions, thoughts and ideas. If you’re interested, you can find more information on the new Tinder-related community space and project page that have been opened on IgniteRealtime.org.

Inbox Innovation: Zimbra Adds New Gadgets and Gallery

Posted on June 6, 2009
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Process-maker-in-ZimbraZimbra’s open source roots have always been of great importance to both the company and the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS).  When we set out to build a new collaboration system over five years ago, we wanted to bring a fresh perspective to the market, and a big part of that was our commitment to being open source.  We understood sharing ideas within the open source community keeps you a one step ahead of competitors by iterating faster to give users what they want.  A great example demonstrating how the community has flourished is the Zimlet development program.

Zimlets are simple but powerful extensions of ZCS that connect users’ email, calendar, and contacts with any number of outside services (for a couple of recent examples see Alfresco and Peru and TripIt).  Zimlet development growth in the community has been strong and steady, and we are excited to continue supporting the community’s work by providing a place where developers can feature the best of their integrations to share with other Zimbra users.   So, today we are launching an updated Zimlet Gallery where you can pick and choose from many handy new ZCS extensions.

At the same time, we also love seeing our Yahoo! friends continue to embrace openness as part of the Yahoo! Open Strategy. In addition to this announcement today, a number of our Yahoo! brethren are extending their platforms to become more open. Today, Yahoo! Mail is introducing applications which enable people to make online payments, access personal photos and more easily send large files directly from their inbox. In addition, My Yahoo! is adding even more third-party applications, driving enhanced personal productivity for users directly from their My Yahoo! start page. You can read more about the Mail and My Yahoo! updates on the Yodel and YDN blogs.

As part of the Zimlet Gallery launch today, we’d like to introduce you to a few new third-party Zimlets, including:

Xythos Zimlet - The Xythos Zimlet allows you to drag and drop email messages and file attachments directly into Xythos’ Enterprise Document Management System.  Secure document management is popular in the enterprise and universities; integration in email is key for ubiquitous adoption.

Processmaker Zimlet - The Processmaker Zimlet helps streamline workflows, like time-off requests, all within Zimbra email (see above).  This Zimlet is already becoming popular and is being deployed at Access America Transport and Ministerio de Vivienda by our Zimbra Partners.

Sticky-Notes-in-ZimbraIn addition, Zimbra developers have created a handful of new Zimlets, including:

Place Sticky Notes on Email - The new Sticky Notes Zimlet allows you to attach and tag emails with “notes.” One can leave comments, reminders, additional info about the email and more. And Zimbra’s powerful search can search through emails based on the contents of the tags/notes attached to the email.

Email Highlighter - The Colored Emails Zimlet allows you to apply personally assigned colors to emails from specific senders such as a family member, your boss, etc. You can identify senders by color, but you can also create colored emails through tags, making it easier to prioritize any inbox.

Save Email as Documents - With one click, the Email-2-Doc Zimlet lets you save an important email as a Zimbra Document; it will automatically save any attachments as links in the Document as well. The email can then be edited and shared with others.

eBox Technologies to participate in Trade Mission to Silicon Valley organized by Guidewire Group

Posted on June 6, 2009
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During the Innovate!Europe event eBox Technologies was selected by the Guidewire Group to join an invite-only trade mission to Silicon Valley and San Francisco area, on June 8-12. eBox Technologies’ CEO, Ignacio Correas and COO, Javi Vázquez will take part in this trade mission that includes meetings, visits, presentations and other business events.

The focus of the mission will be to meet with venture capitalists, private investors, U.S. entrepreneurs, potential partners and service providers who can further company’s growth. If you are interested in having a face-to-face meeting with eBox Technologies management, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@ebox-platform.com We’ll be staying in the San Francisco area from the 7th until 19th of June.

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