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We had some great discussions tonight at ApacheCon concerning gaining momentum and synergy between the portals (and related) projects. Specifically, we addressed the need to determine where the line is between pluto and enterprise portal implementations (specifically, jetspeed and cocoon) . There seems to be a need for a "lightweight" portal implementation which provides standard aggregation services, but does not include all of the bells and whistles (value added services such as cms, sso, etc. . .). Pluto has been moving towards this point, but it isn't necessarily the place for this (the portlet container should be the primary need). Additionally, other common functions (i.e. autodeploy - which both jetspeed and cocoon have implemented) may be beyond the scope of pluto, but do not have a common home - thus duplicating work. I'd like to open the discussion of a new portals project. This project would be a very lightweight portal implementation which provides more than the testbed which pluto provides (in fact, pluto would probably be greatly trimmed down or refactored out into this project) but no more than the core aggregation services (portlet registry, page management, deployment). The hope would be for portals such as jetspeed and cocoon to build on top of these core services. Additionally, this lightweight portal could be used for developing portlets, testing portlets, embedding within web applications which need to aggregate content, etc. . . Another idea we discussed was placing some of these facilities into a portal-commons project. Thoughts? I'm looking forward to hearing suggestions on how we can address these concerns and start working more closely together across portals projects. . . David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
