> i think wicket would solve a ton of difficult problems with building portals
> as long as you portlets are all wicket based :)
Absolutely! That was the plan...I wouldn't *dream* of using another
framework! :D
> IPortletFactory { UUID getUUID(), String getName(), Portlet
> newPortlet(PortletState) }
>
> enum PortletState(NORMAL,MAXIMIZED,MINIMIZED,EDIT)
>
> class Portlet extends Panel
>
> then drop a bunch of these factories where you can discover them, and bam -
> portal :)
Wow! Sounds like I could crank this thing out in 24 hrs. and knock
the big-wigs right out of the market. Look out Oracle, CA, Microsoft
- the jig is up! ;)
> but seriously
> building a portal is a pretty large task, there are a lot of services the
> portal provides that are non trivial - such as user identity, security, etc,
> etc
I'll start small, naturally, and get something built that lets users
build pages...basically. However, you're right - these services are
exactly what we have in our turd-portal and would be a requirement at
some phase.
> setting up your own os project isnt a big deal, just register it with sf.net
> and you are good to know. if you dont want to deal with that right now we
> would be happy to create wicket-contrib-portal for you in wicket-stuff so
> you can get started quickly and when you are ready you can move to a
> location of your choosing. the advantage of starting out in wicket-stuff is
> that you can benefit from all the devels who already have access to it ( if
> you want that of course :) )
I think I'd actually like it to start out as a wicket-stuff project
simply because the emphasis will be so heavy on the Wicket side and
like you said, I'd have better guidance. Sort of like an "incubator"
project...for lack of a better description.
I've obviously got a lot of learning to do on the internals of Wicket
seeing as I've only built two fairly small applications with it in the
last couple of months. I'd be using this as a project to further my
hands-on experience. I'm also relatively new to Java, Hibernate,
EJB3, etc. having only used all of this stuff for < 1 yr.
However, I think it'd be a great project and from what I've seen
available in portals out there, Wicket would give me enough leverage
to create something really competitive.
>
>
> On 6/14/06, Vincent Jenks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> So, I finally completed our first Wicket experiment - the infamous
> storefront I've been blathering about endlessly:
>
> http://www.snakeriverfarms.com/ - click the animated gif on the
> bottom-left of the page.
>
> I'm hoping it leads to more Wicket-based projects for me here at work
> but I've got definite plans of my own - the first of which is a Portal
> based on Wicket.
>
> We have a really crappy portal here at work that was quite
> expensive...and I'd really like to build something better myself w/
> Wicket & EJB 3.0. As far as I know, there's nothing out there like
> that currently, is there?
>
> I was looking at JSR-286 but it looks like it's geared toward JSF, am
> I correct? If that were the case I'd have no interest in conforming
> to it - but please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I'd like to begin planning it right away but I thought I'd take some
> feedback from the good folks behind Wicket first since you've all been
> so helpful so far! I've never built anything quite as modular as a
> portal before and I'm not sure where to begin as far as making
> "portlets" dynamically loadable & modular while keeping performance
> acceptable. I'd like to build an initial, rough, alpha-quality base
> to release as an open source project and work from there.
>
> I've never created my own open source project either, so any input
> there would be helpful!
>
> Thanks all!
>
> -v
>
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