how to change portlet titble style

2003-08-11 Thread sophy
In general, a portlet  title bar only displays the name of the portlet  at the right 
and the action buttons(customize,print etc.) at the left. Sometimes We need modify 
this stytle for customization. I know it is possible, because many web sites based on 
jetspeed have done it. But I don't see how to do it . Can anybody give me some advice? 

Regards

sophy

Re: JSR-168 Article Part 1 in JavaWorld

2003-08-11 Thread Serge Huber2
At 14:44 06.08.2003 -0700, you wrote:
  The portlet spec is locking out client-side technologies!!  If the
arguments and points that I have presented have not convinced you then
sobeit.  I can pretty much guarantee you that going forward with the
spec the way it is it will fail.  Users are going to reject the slow
performance the lack of being able to use good client-side technologies
that other portal implementations are going to allow.  The only way
that I'll even consider designing anything around this current spec is
to remove all of the portlet window state buttons and portlet mode
buttons so that I can use some client-side technologies in the portal
and the user won't be experiencing constant page reloading.
Well the spec is actually very close to the Servlet API in some ways. The 
Servlet API is also quite minimal in it's coverage, and I wouldn't call it 
a failure despite the fact that it didn't cover areas such as :

- browser capabilities
- client-side supported technologies
- file uploads
etc...

I do understand very well the point you are making. For example I 
personally prefer to use an email client such as Evolution or Eudora than 
using the web interface of Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. Why ? Because of all the 
server round trips that do make some operations tedious. But I also like to 
have my mail all in one place, and not have to login into seperate web 
interfaces to check my mail, which I guess brings my needs back to portal 
needs.

But I fail to understand your point as to why the current spec is locking 
client-side technologies out. As I said previously I think the spec is 
lacking in the areas of specifying the lookup and dispatching technologies 
to portlets, but I think that can come in a later revision of the spec, or 
become a defacto standard through the promotion of technologies such as 
Pluto that are (will be actually) under a very free license such as Apache. 
I think the spec doesn't include client technology support as per say, but 
I wouldn't say it "locks it out".

If I take a quick look at what is needed using todays technologies in order 
to make the client-side experience nicer :
- Javascript
- DOM Level 2
- Probably LiveConnect if we want to interact with applets
- A way to communicate on a portlet basis with the server, be it iFrame, or 
SOAP calls or something like that.
On the server-side we need :
- a SOAP server or an HTTP server that hooks up to the client
- A collection of portlets

Now what let's say that the portlets interact with the client through WSRP. 
Why couldn't the WSRP server communicate with it's portlets through the 
JSR-168 interfaces (which is exactly what Oracle's implementation does btw) 
? It would then just be up to the implementation of the portlets to follow 
guidelines (which are NOT in the spec), to interface well with the client 
side controls. These guidelines might be what you think is lacking in the 
spec, but as I see it it is technologically possible to do this, although 
not as easy.

The point I am mostly trying to make here is that the spec is aimed at 
defining how portlet developers should do their work in a broad and 
all-encompassing fashion. Constraining them too much will probably scare 
them away. Now they should ALSO have the possibility to write code without 
any client-side controls, and the spec allows this too. But I think that if 
there is some serious flaw in the spec that we have yet to uncover, either 
we must correct it now if still possible, or it will be corrected in a 
later update.

Regards,
  Serge Huber.


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Ann: Simpler Struts based portal

2003-08-11 Thread Vic Cekvenich
 Original Message - 
From: "Vic Cekvenich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Leonard Sitongia"
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Ann: Simpler Struts based portal


> http://basicportal.com/do/newsBlgCmntsLstPg?ID=14
> This shows somone added something just now, and comments do not require
> approval.
> Submiting new content does require approval.
>
> Video.exe includes an AVI (even AVI has hard time w/ CODEC on windows,
> so I made it an exe).
>
> Transactions - Yes.
> WebDav - No.
> Access control -Yes. Realy nice, based on Realms and Struts support of
> Realms. Very simple.
>
> Docs are intro. Idea is that Struts developers could look at source
(sf.net
> has anon CVS). I do offer $ training for coporate/business users,
> Kind of hopeing that portal is so simple it does not need training.
>
> Simple means easy to learn, and for people that know Struts, easy to
extend
> unlimited.
> So if KISS works... bP works.
>
> Is it perfect? No! I tried to make SIMPLEST CMS w/ Security based on
Struts.
> I do have some large private sites using it, 40,000 concurent users.
>
> .V
>
>
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Leonard Sitongia"
> To: "Vic Cekvenich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Ann: Simpler Struts based portal
>
>
> > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 3:12 pm, Vic Cekvenich wrote:
> > > I just gave you a simple video.exe link bellow?
> >
> > I don't know what video.exe is, and I doubt I can run it on Linux.
> >
> > >
> > > Are you saying sample sites?
> > > basicPortal.com is running bP, so is Infonoia.com (and a few private
> sites)
> > >
> > > Hope you try it.
> >
> > I downloaded the documentation, and see only an introduction.  Is there
> more
> > detailed documentation?  There are many questions.  Does the CMS have
> > workflow, version control, transactional updates/rollback, webDAV
support,
> > access control?
> >
> > What portal components are available with the package?
> >
> > I signed up in basebeans.com, and added some content.  I can't tell
where
> it
> > went.  Does it await approval?  I can't tell.  It looks like a textbox
for
> > entry, but can one enter HTML?  I see something like it in the basic
> > document, but it's different.
> >
> > -- 
> > ==Leonard E. Sitongia
> >   Visualization and Enabling Technologies / Scientific Computing
Division
> >   National Center for Atmospheric Research
> >   P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307  USA
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]voice: (303)497-2454   fax: (303)497-1239
> >
>



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