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<chapter id="chap-User_Guide-Introduction">
        <title>Preface</title>
    <section id="sec-User_Guide-Introduction-Overview">
        <title>Overview</title>
        <para>
            Beginning as an open source project in the year 2002, eXo is well-known as the industry's first Java portlet
            container. With the aim of dominating the potential portal market through robust and easy-to-use
            applications, eXo Project succeeded in attracting consumers in the whole world. eXo actually opened the
            floodgates to various options in many markets, and customers have been choosing eXo as the best method for
            their success.
        </para>
        <para>
            Today, eXo is a rapidly growing global company, with U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, California, global
            headquarters in France, and offices in Tunisia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. eXo has established technology
            leadership and proven values by their large European installed base and strategic partnerships with Red Hat,
            Capgemini, Atos Origin, and Bull.
        </para>
        <para>
            &PRODUCT; is the perfect merge between Red Hat and eXo Platform in creating a new generation of Open Source
            portal that is robust and intuitive. With GateIn, both normal users and enterprises can enjoy many
            personalization and collaboration applications wherever and whenever. Advantages generated in GateIn, such
            as the interactive user interface, customizable look and feel, flexible internationalization and
            localization, facilitate the birth of many useful applications with a variety of rich utilities in the world
            market.
        </para>
    </section>
    <section id="sec-User_Guide-Introduction-Purpose">
        <title>
            Purpose of the guide
        </title>
        <para>The guide was written as a handbook, aiming at instructing step-by-step on how to use and to implement
            this application to the utmost. The information included here will give basic steps that makes easy for
            users to follow through in-depth examples and clear explanations about the eXo Platform technology. Whether
            you major in technology or not, you are able to learn about or to work on GateIn easily and efficiently.
        </para>
    </section>
    <section id="sec-User_Guide-Introduction-References">
        <title>References and Related Sources</title>
        <itemizedlist id="item-User_Guide-References_and_Related_Sources-Information">
            <title>Information</title>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    <ulink type="http" url="http://www.exoplatform.com/">eXo Home Page</ulink>
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    <ulink type="http" url="http://wiki.exoplatform.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome/">eXo Wiki</ulink>
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
        <itemizedlist id="item-User_Guide-References_and_Related_Sources-Support">
            <title>Support</title>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    <ulink type="http" url="http://forums.exoplatform.org/">Forums</ulink>
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    <ulink type="http" url="http://faq.exoplatform.org/index.html">FAQs</ulink>
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
    </section>
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		&PRODUCT; is the merge of two mature Java projects; JBoss Portal and eXo Portal. This new community project takes the best of both offerings and incorporates them into a single j2ee deployment archive. The aim is to provide an intuitive user-friendly portal and a framework to address the needs of today's Web 2.0 applications.
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		Refer to <ulink type="http" url="http://www.jboss.org/gatein/documentation.html">&PRODUCT; Reference Guide</ulink> for detailed information on all aspects of the project.
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	<section id="sect-Install_Guide-Introduction-Related_Links">
		<title>Related Links</title>
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					GateIn homepage:
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					GateIn videos:
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					GateIn documentation:
					<ulink url="http://www.jboss.org/gatein/documentation.html">www.jboss.org/gatein/documentation.html</ulink>
				</para>
			</listitem>
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				<para>
					GateIn downloads:
					<ulink url="http://www.jboss.org/gatein/downloads.html">www.jboss.org/gatein/downloads.html</ulink>
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