Abstract : This presentation shows how two open source projects hosted in the ObjectWeb Consortium can be leveraged to build an open source solution for e-Government. E-Government solutions aim at providing online services and supplying information to everyone. They help Public Sector Organizations to improve the efficiency of offered services. They also allow to reduce costs by phasing out paperwork. One concrete consequence of this advance is the growing market of middleware solutions for Public Administration. Major requirements are flexibility, performance and openness. They can be addressed by two components of the ObjectWeb ecosystem :
  eXo Platform version 2 which is a powerful Enterprise Portal and Content Management solution used by several US federal, French and Italian administrations. It allows the creation, monitoring and publication of personalized contents through a single unified web platform.
  Bonita. This Workflow System increases automation, collaboration and robustness of the platform powered by eXo. It constitutes its perfect companion by providing a workflow engine, a user interface and a process design tool supporting processes for online services. The session features short presentations of both components. It then deals with a real world use case where they are combined to form a framework for e-Government applications. It will show, among others, how forms are filled by Citizens through eXo Portal, then stored in eXo Java Content Repository and processed by Bonita.

Speaker : Miguel Valdes Faura is the Workflow Project Manager working for Bull. Before that he has worked in Spain in different European projects based on J2EE platform and Open Source application servers. He joined INRIA, the French Research Institute in Computer Sciences, on February 2001 co-founding the Bonita Workflow System. He is nowadays the Project Manager of the Bull SOA Workflow project at Bull R&D France and he is also working on components and services included in the next Bull Enterprise Service Bus platform. He is a regular speaker at international conferences : JavaOne, Internet Global Congress, Open Source World Conference, javaHispano Conference, ObjectWebCon, COSGov, JavaBin...