Well taken...
I think that as the release of jetspeed nears as well, the documentation on
the portletAPI as used in jetspeed will become clearer. WPS leverages a
large portion of the code and IBM has reverse contributed a good amount of
the API.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mats Forssblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: Source for portlet api?
>
>
> "Scott A. Roehrig" wrote:
> >
> > IBM has returned portions of the WPS code to the Jetspeed project. Not
all
> > of WPS is open source however.
> >
> > Scott
>
> Yes, and this is expected. But core portlet API classes in the
> org.apache.jetspeed.* packages should be available. Discrepancies
> between the API as shipped by IBM and what we find in the jetspeed
> source are also expected with a developing api. But an indication of the
> status of an important class like PortletAdapter would be...nice.
>
> Finally, of course you'd expect IBM to make some useful interfaces and
> abstract classes for producing portlets, and they would of course not be
> open source. But if you look closely at the com.ibm.wps.portlets package
> you'll find some things that really might just as well be part of the
> api. An important example is the IBM PortletController and related
> interfaces. They are extremely similar to the jetspeed PortletAdapter.
> They add some true value by the method
> void doActionEven ( ActionEvent event )
> while they 'retain' methods that are already in the jetspeed core api,
> like doView(), doEdit(), doHelp().
> It's no big deal to stick to PortletAdapter and add your own interface
> for handling an ActionEvent, but I guess right now hundreds of portlets
> are shipped to market that are dependent - for no really good reason -
> on PortletController, and thus not portable.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mats Forssblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:31 AM
> > Subject: Source for portlet api?
> >
> > > Where do I find the source for
> > > org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.PortletAdapter and
> > > org.apache.jetspeed.portlets.AbstractPorlet? I have javadoc for the
api,
> > > and I'm using the compiled classes with IBM Portal Server 1.2, but the
> > > source for this and other classes seems not to be present in the
> > > Jetspeed source branch for the new api.
> > > Also I find the widespread use of the package com.ibm.wps.portlets -
in
> > > IBM tutorials and samples - disturbing. What's the policy on this? I'm
> > > really scared to touch them, but if it's just a naming issue, and it's
> > > all going to end up as org.apache.jetspeed-stuff, I guess they can be
> > > used.
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