Deepak Gothe's Weblog: Portlets, JSF Based Portlets and more...

The OpenPortal Portlet Container 2.1 has been released.

The Portlet Container 2.1 is also part of following releases

• Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0

• Liferay version 5.2 and higher

Why the version is called 2.1 and not 2.0 update 2 ?

Because, this release has lot of changes and is a major release. Following is brief list of changes  that went into this release

• Major enhancements to support WSRP 2.0 FCS, GlassFish Web Space Server and Liferay version 5.2.
• New features like XMLPortletRequest.
• Jar name changes to support the deployment of OpenPortal Portlet Container and GlassFish Web Space Server on the same domain of GlassFish.
  
• The third party jars used by the driver have been updated(like commons-fileupload, JSTL and Standard jars)

It is recommended that you uninstall previous versions before installing this release.

Following developer tools are available to develop, deploy and test portlets on the OpenPortal Portlet Container 2.1.

• Netbeans Portlet Pack 3.0

• Eclipse Portal Pack

If you have questions on how to use the OpenPortal Portlet Container and other comments/suggestions/requests, we urge you to join the users@portlet-container.dev.java.net alias.

Please report any issues that you encounter while trying OpenPortal Portlet Container to issues@portlet-container.dev.java.net.