The portal and authentication framework are used in production since years now - I don't have any links handy right now :( So, you can call the framework usable and stable.
I can't compare the cocoon portal with jetspeed, because that wouldn't be objective enough, I fear. But if you want to use Cocoon anyway, use the Cocoon portal; if you want to build your application based on XML and XSLT (for example for multi-channel), use the cocoon portal. If jetspeed provides everything you need know and in the foreseen future, well...aeh...use the jetspeed portal of course. In general, I guess the cocoon portal is more flexible because of it's XML/XSLT nature - so you can add new features, integrate new portlets without writing one line java code; it's just a matter of "configuration". The development of the cocoon portal will continue and it will be even more powerfull and extensible than it is now. Just a teaser: What do you think of a portal that can run "cocoon portlets" and jetspeed based portlets at the same time? Carsten > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Linde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:35 PM > To: Cocoon-Users-List > Subject: Portal: usable now? Usable in future? > > > Hi, > > I am PM of a project that needs to deploy a workable but customisable > portal as one of its components. The team working on this has set up a > Jetspeed-based solution using the demo site. I was wondering how usable > the Cocoon portal webapp is and whether anyone has compared it to the > Jetspeed one. > > Also, is work still continuing on the Auth and Portal webapps? And is > there a release date for them? > > We have to release incremental builds of the project but the final > release isn't until end of 2004 so I'm happy for us to work with beta > code (and even contribute to it if it adds to our project functionality) > as long as it seems a viable long-term project. What are the long-term > prospects of the Portal? > > Thanks, > Tony. > > __ > Tony Linde Phone: +44 (0)116 223 1292 > AstroGrid Project Manager Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3311 > Dept of Physics & Astronomy Mobile: +44 (0)7753 603356 > University of Leicester Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Leicester, UK LE1 7RH Web: http://www.astrogrid.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
