The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the second milestone release of Jetspeed-2.

The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi

Follow the links to portals/jetspeed-2

Two binary releases are provided.

1. Jetspeed-2 + Tomcat 5.0.30 distribution.
2. Jetspeed-2 + Tomcat 5.5.8 distribution.

With this second milestone of Jetspeed-2, new versions of the
Portals Bridges components are released as well. These components are now all upgraded to version 0.2. Portals Bridges can be used independently of Jetspeed-2 and will eventually migrate to its own Portals Bridges project.


Bridges released with M2:

* Struts Bridge 0.2
* Velocity Bridge 0.2
* JSF Bridge 0.2
* Perl Bridge 0.2
* PHP Bridge 0.2
* Portlet Framework 0.2


-------------------------- Jetspeed 2.0-M2 Release April 4, 2005 --------------------------

* PALM - Portlet Application Lifecycle Manager
  A new administrative portlet for managing the lifecycle of portlet
  applications. Supports start, stop, undeploy and delete operations.

* JBoss Support
   Jetspeed tested and running on JBoss versions 3.2.7 and 4.0.1sp1

* New Improved Deployment
   Deployment overhauled to support application server
   controlled deployment. Class loader and cross-context session control
   issues resolved.

* Struts Bridge Enhancements

* Navigations Refactoring

* Enhanced credential security and validation,
  Login/Password Enhancements

* LDAP Authentication support added.

* Secure Access to Site Resources (Pages, Folders)

* Profiler, Layout, PSML Security Documentation

* SSO Enhancements

* Improved JSF Support

* Finer grain Spring configuration

* Main Jetspeed context no longer requires /jetspeed

-----------
Bug fixes
-----------
see M2-bugfixes.html

---------------------
 Tested App Servers:
---------------------
 * Tomcat 5.0.30
 * Tomcat 5.5.8
 * JBoss 3.2.7
 * JBoss 4.0.1sp1

(Tomcat 5.5 requires a different jetspeed.xml found in the source tree under src/resources/jetspeed-tomcat-5.5.xml)

Check out our wiki page for details: http://wiki.apache.org/portals/Jetspeed2

---------------------
 NO Longer Supported:
---------------------
 * Tomcat 4.1.x

Support for Tomcat 4.1.x has been dropped.

---------------------------
 Installation Instructions
---------------------------

1. Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.0.30.tar.gz, or
Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.0.30.zip (windows), or
Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.5.8.tar.gz, or
Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.5.8.zip (windows)
2. Expand jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-<version>.tar.gz into a clean directory (as example we will use 'jetspeed')


   cd /jetspeed
   tar xfz jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-<version>.tar.gz

   For Windows:

   cd c:\jetspeed
   unzip jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-<version>.zip

3. start the database

   cd /jetspeed/jetspeed-database
   start-database.sh

   For Windows:

   cd c:\jetspeed\jetspeed-database
   start-database.bat

4. startup Tomcat

   execute /jetspeed/jakarta-tomcat-<version>/bin/startup.sh

   For Windows:

   execute c:\jetspeed\jakarta-tomcat-<version>\bin\startup.bat


5. start up a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal



------------------------------ Configuring Another Database ------------------------------

1. cd $TOMCAT_HOME/jetspeed-database/scripts
2. edit the build.properties, set the properties for your database connection, save.
3. create a database schema/catalog to hold your database tables
4. type 'ant' to run the database population scripts
5. edit the jetspeed.xml properties
- $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/jetspeed.xml


    and set your database connection

6. copy your database driver into Tomcat's common/endorsed directory

7. start up a web browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal

 Sample accounts to login as:

 admin/admin
 manager/manager
 user/user

--------------------------------
Upgrading from Jetspeed 2.0 M1
--------------------------------
If you are upgrading an installation from Jetspeed 2.0 M1,
remember to delete the M1 jar files found under Tomcat's shared/lib directory. The following files should be deleted:


jetspeed-api-2.0-M1.jar
jetspeed-commons-2.0-M1.jar
pluto-1.0.1-rc1.jar
portals-bridges-common-0.1.jar



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