The Portal Zone
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Open source Flickr portlet

Jeff has developed a cool Flickr Portlet for the Portlet Repository. Check it out.

Posted at 06:44PM Jan 29, 2007 by Navaneeth Krishnan in General  | 

Portal predictions for 2007

By CMS Watch : Predictions for 2007: The elusive quest for simple

Posted at 01:20PM Jan 16, 2007 by Navaneeth Krishnan in General  | 

More on the Portlet Repository Protocol

Check out Roy's blog entry on PRP

Posted at 05:46PM Oct 13, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portlet  | 

An Open Invitation to Portal vendors - Join the PRP project

A JSR 168 portlet is a standards based plugin to a Portal Server.

Portal Vendors typically maintain a catalog of portlets in online repositories (like this and this).

What if a developer using Portal X can, on the fly, download a portlet from the catalog of Portal Y ?

Sounds interesting ? That is what the Portlet Repository Protocol project is trying to achieve.

With the Portlet Repository Protocol project, we are trying to define a common Web Service that can be used to front-end any portlet repository. Any portal that can talk this Web Service will be free to the leverage the service provided by any of the online portlet repositories.

This effort is currently endorsed by Sun and JBoss, and we welcome any other interested party to join us. For more details, check out the Portlet Repository Protocol page and join the discuss@prp.dev.java.net mailing list.

Posted at 04:11PM Oct 12, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portlet  |  Comments[2]

Portlets for online assessments

Now this is an interesting trend : Questionmark Announces Support for JSR 168.

As the Portlet spec matures, we ought to find a lot more application vendors exposing standard JSR 168/ JSR 286 interfaces to their applications.

Posted at 12:50PM Sep 20, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portlet  |  Comments[3]