Bio
Julien Viet leads product development of eXo Platform’s flagship eXo Portal product on which the entire eXo product line is based. In June 2009, eXo Portal was merged with JBoss Portal to create GateIn, which Julien now co-leads. In this role, he is deeply involved in GateIn’s technical vision and plays a key role in product development and advanced R&D architecture prototyping.
Prior to eXo, Julien was an engineer at JBoss, where he founded the JBoss Portal project in 2004. In four years, Julien built an enterprise-class portal server with a team of only five developers. He started contributing to the JBoss project (application server) in 2002 and joined JBoss, Inc. two years later.
Julien is passionate about open source and active in standards groups. In his spare time, he started the Chromattic project, an advanced Object to Java Content Repository (JCR) mapping framework that now underpins the GateIn project. He is also an expert group member for several Java specifications, including Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286), Content Repository for Java Technology API 2.0 (JSR-283) and Portlet Bridge for JavaServer Faces (JSR-301). Julien holds an engineering degree from Institut National des Télécommunications, one of France’s top schools for engineering.
Open Source Involvement
I like Open Source Software and is/was a contributor of several projects
- GateIn: Shared lead working mainly on the portal, portlet container.
- Chromattic: An advanced Java Content Repository to Object mapper framework.
- Reflext: A framework abstracting the various Java reflection API.
- CRaSH: An extensible Shell for (Java) Content Repository.
- JBoss Portal: I founded the JBoss Portal project in 2004 and was the lead until August 2008.
- JBoss Application Server: Contributed to the project around 2002, mainly JMX and JNDI.
- Cargo: Minor patches (shared classpath feature).
- Spaz: Minor contributions to Spaz a nice Twitter client (URL rewriting feature, marked-as-read feature, dock icon badging).
Java Involvement
One of the JUG leader of the Mars JUG
Speaker
I spoke to the following conferences
- What's new and cool in Portlet 2.0 at JavaZone in September 2008
- What's new and cool in Portlet 2.0 at WebExpo Bern in March 2008
- Portlet Best Practices at Javaone in 2006
- JBoss Portal talk Javapolis in 2005
- JBoss World: I have been several times speaker at JBoss World
Friends
Much respect and admiration to
- Laurent Garnier
- Dierk "Chaos" Ohlerich
- Anis Cheurfa
- Marc Fleury
Contact
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