Mete Kural wrote:
Hi Vic,
I read your proposal. As you say, I think it would be great to provide Struts-based verticals under a portal platform. In your proposal you have mentioned that one of BasicPortal's goals is to provide a UI that is similar to my.netscape.com. I think that Liferay has accomplished this and it also has pretty extensive personalization and administration features. Please surf through the demo at my.liferay.com Log in as the administrator so you can check out the administration features as well: Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pass: test
Since now I am somewhat involved in both Liferay and BasicPortal (although I have not yet contributed a single line of code to either of them) I can clearly see that there is a common goal in both of these projects: providing an open-source "Struts-based" portal server. Both projects have their strengths. While BasicPortal has a good lightweight persistence framework, Liferay has an extensive UI for personalization and administration. I suggest that the best of both projects can be combined under a brand new Jakarta subproject that would aim to provide a Struts-based alternative to JetSpeed. What do you think?
-Mete
--- Vic Cekvenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?PortalProposal
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--- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
There are certainly people in the
world who have done this sort of thing already
(Liferay, BasicPortal, etc.) for non-JSR-168 portlet APIs, so it's clearly feasible, and it's a
pretty good idea. But, from my perspective, this
sort of thing is actually a Struts-based application, rather than part of the framework
itself.
Thanks for the insight. Now I understand what the
role
of Struts would be regarding the Portlet API. In
this
case I have another question to follow. If Struts
will
hopefully provide a "framework for building Struts-based portlets", how do you find the idea
of
cultivating interest for open-source programmers
to
work on a Struts-based portal server under the
Jakarta
umbrella? As you say, there are already people who have implemented Struts-based non-JSR-168 portal servers such as Liferay and BasicPortal. I think
that
it would be wonderful if there could be a joint
effort
to create an open-source Struts-based portal
server
under Jakarta, as an alternative to JetSpeed. What
do
you think?
Thanks, Mete
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