Hi Alex, The main difference between the components we will be donating and Jetspeed is the fact that our components are integrated into Cocoon 2.0 (and adhere to the Cocoon interfaces and concepts) - as opposed to being layered on as in Jetspeed. So if you then want to build a portal all you need is Cocoon.
As the donated components will also include authentication components you can pick the bits you want (or need) and build _your_ solution to fit. So you could say just use the authentication parts to protect certain resources in the sitemap or use both the authentication and portal components to build a complete portal. You can use simple XML files as a source for your user data-base, or opt to use an exisiting database. Again, the user source is a Cocoon pipeline (which allows you to use the exisiting transformers, XSP, whatever). Inside your portal, you then use normal Cocoon pipelines as content (there are mechanisms available that make sure these content pipelines can only be called inside a portal context). So it is pretty easy to build portals that say access news sources (in XML) and then present them inside a portal layout. To build your portal you then create a pipeline containing the portal generator. This generator reads (and builds) the portal profile for each user depending on his/her settings - again these settings are obtained via a Cocoon pipeline (the default being a file). Each content pipeline can then use a stylesheet to format its particular data into some layout - if needed. Once the XML data has been generated for the portal it is then transformed into say an HTML layout. So again, it is then pretty easy to add additional stylesheets to format into some other format. Hope this helps for the moment. We are also answering similar questions on the dev list - so you may want to check those out as well. Regards Matthew -- Open Source Group sunShine - Lighting up e:Business ================================================================= Matthew Langham, S&N AG, Klingenderstrasse 5, D-33100 Paderborn Tel:+49-5251-1581-30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.s-und-n.de ================================================================= -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex McLintock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Montag, 21. Januar 2002 16:50 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Donating Portal and Authentication Components to the Cocoon project At 11:08 21/01/02, Matthew Langham wrote: >As some of you already know, our company has built a complete middleware >solution around Cocoon. This product, named "sunShine", is successfully >being used to build a variety of different solutions for various customers >here in Germany. sunShine applications range from Web portals to XML based >workflow systems. I would like to see how this compares to the functionality of Jetspeed which is Apache's alternative portal solution. Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
