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Wednesday November 30, 2005

JSR-286 Portlet Specification 2.0 Started

Yesterday JSR-286: Portlet Specification 2.0 started. This will be a great opportunity to move the Portlet specification forward. Two areas I thought were lacking in JSR-168 were:

• Interportlet Communication
• Web Framework Support

Fortunately, both of these requirements seem to be addressed in JSR-286.

Cheers!

-David

I was just corrected on the number. The number is 286 and not 268. The number 268 would have been too good to be true! Posted by david ( Nov 30 2005, 09:06:36 AM MST ) Permalink Comments [0] | |

Thursday April 28, 2005

Pluto's Secret File

I'm talking about Pluto the Apache portlet container not Pluto the dog or Pluto the planet. Sorry if you thought we found a file on Pluto!
I'm specifically talking about "Pluto 1.0.1rc2.":http://portals.apache.org/pluto The instructions tell you everything about getting it up and running and seeing the wonderful test portlet. RC2 is much better than RC1. You can at least deploy a portlet to the container now with a lot less effort. What the docs fail to tell you is that there is a magical file you must update or you'll get a NullPointerException.
Are you ready...drum roll please, and the file is *"webapps/pluto/WEB-INF/data/portletcontexts.txt"*. Read all about it in this "thread.":http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=pluto-user@portals.apache.org&msgNo=1122
Just so you don't misunderstand my comments about Pluto, I'd like to officially thank all the contributors. I know they are heads down right now working on 2.0 and have little time to look back. Pluto is a great open source contribution.
I decided to blog about this since I keep seeing posts on the pluto-user alias about it.
Posted by david ( Apr 28 2005, 04:54:00 PM MDT ) Permalink Comments [0] | |