Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > Ralph Goers wrote: > > > > > Well, I like the idea of deploying them inside of Cocoon. > I'm not sure > > why the Portlet spec says they should be web apps. > > > I might be wrong but afaiu the spec, it only says that a > portlet should be deployed as a web app. But in my > understanding this does not include that it runs as a real > web application. > So deploying them inside of Cocoon seems to conform to the spec. > Ok, I have thought about this: running the portlets as a web app inside Cocoon sounds like a great idea, but emulation a servlet engine or even worse an app server seems not like the easiest thing to do. I looked briefly at Jetspeed-2 and they are using a different approach. You deploy a portlet into jetspeed as a war file and then it seems that jetspeed deploys the portlet web application into Tomcat. Don't know how that works :( But if this is compatible to different servlet engines than it seems like a good compromise: the portal is used for deployment of portlets and the portal delegates it to the underlying servlet engine.
Thoughts? Carsten
