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RE: [cinjug-users] Portals

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Subject: RE: [cinjug-users] Portals
From: "Scott T Weaver" <sweaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:40:59 -0500
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<blatant self-promotion>
If you go with Jetspeed 2, I can give you some guidance if you run into any
issues since I am actually a committer on the Jetspeed project. ;)
</blatant self-promotion>

Unfortunately, I am not very active on the project anymore as I just don't
have the time.  Lame excuse, I know. :(

I haven't really had a chance to play with Liferay, though it does look
pretty cool.  The only drawback that I have with Liferay is that the portal
engine itself is based on EJBs (which may not be the case any longer).
Personally, I hate EJBs almost as much as I hate JSPs, so that kind of put
me off of evaluating it.  eXo platform is also nice from what I hear, again
I don't really have any experience with eXo.

Since both eXo and Liferay are actual, financed products they have a
tendency to contain a better, out-of-the-box experience.  Where as Jetspeed
2, which works fine out-of the-box, has fewer generic portlets.  Jetspeed 2
is more tailored towards someone that wants to extend the portal engine
itself.  It is backed by the Spring Framework and the portal/portlet request
lifecycle is based upon a configurable pipeline/valve architecture.

Now, if you like Jetspeed 2 and you want something with more polish, take a
look at http://www.jahia.org.  They use Jetspeed 2 as the basis for their
portal engine.  They have both Open Source and commercial versions
available.

Regards,
-scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chadm@xxxxxxxx [mailto:chadm@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:53 AM
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxx; twcrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cinjug-users] Portals
> 
> If you're interested in creating jsr-168 portlets, you can start with an
> explanation of the spec -
> http://developers.sun.com/portalserver/reference/techart/jsr168/
> 
> I've used pluto, jetspeed and liferay for testing my jsr-168 portlets.
> Jetspeed and Liferay both have quite a bit of activity in user forums,
> which should be helpful.
> 
> Chad
> ---- twcrone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I looked into open source Java portals Friday and little this weekend
> with very little success.  I've heard people discussing LifeRay in this
> group.  Anyone know of some good resources for a portal newbie to get his
> feet wet?
> >
> > Thanks as usual...
> >
> > - Todd
> >
> 
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