The Portal Zone
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Database portlets using Creator 2

Just noticed that sakthi has a sample Creator project with portlets that can be configured to talk to various Databases. Click here for more.

Posted at 01:42PM Mar 21, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portal Tools  | 

Sun's portlet development platform is now free !

Yes, Creator 2 is free and you can get it here.

For more info on creating portlets with Creator, check out this link Creating Portlets in Sun Java Studio Creator 2

Posted at 10:28AM Jan 26, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portal Tools  | 

Developing portlets on Netbeans 5

Matthew Ryan has developed a Netbeans 5 plugin module that can be used to create portlet projects in Netbeans 5 and deploy to Apache Pluto, the Portlet RI container. For more details check out his blog entry:

NetBeans Module for starting Apache Pluto Portlet project

Posted at 01:42PM Jan 20, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portal Tools  | 

Adding Google to your portal ...

... with Creator of course ;)

Check out GregZ's new entry about the GoogleSearch Portlet.

Way back in August, I did a screencast on creating portlets with the Creator 2 : Quick' n Easy Portlets using the Sun Java Studio Creator 2. I used the Early Access1 bits of Creator.

A huge bunch of new features have been added to Creator since then. And the good news is :Creator2 is coming out real soon!

Posted at 10:21AM Jan 19, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portal Tools  | 

Creating Portlets in Sun Java Studio Creator 2

Here is a good introductory article that shows how to harness the power of the Creator 2 to create portlets: Creating Portlets in Sun Java Studio Creator 2

Posted at 04:21PM Jan 09, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in Portal Tools  |