Pivot as a portal

[Ralph Goers]

I saw a demo given by Adobe a few months ago where they are developing  
a portal on the client using their flash technology. I have been  
thinking about how to accomplish the same thing since then without  
requiring a proprietary product. After reading Pivot's web site and  
especially after looking at the LiveConnect documentation it occurred  
to me that Pivot could be the basis for a Java based client side  
portal. Then I went and looked at the code and as best I can  
understand it pivot seems to be all about creating standalone non-html  
widgets in the browser. However, it would seem that since LiveConnect  
allows Java apps to interact with the HTMLDocument as well as  
Javascript that Pivot could easily be extended to become a client-side  
portal container that could aggregate content of various types using  
layouts and permissions provided by a server side component.  
Hopefully, this would allow for more seamless integration then some  
current technologies allow.

1. Am I totally off base in my thinking?
2. If not, is there any interest in doing this in Pivot?

Ralph