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Tuesday May 16, 2006

We are open sourcing the Sun Portal !

A few hours ago, we cvs-checked-in what happens to be the very first open-source code artifacts from the Sun portal internal CVS repository to java.net. This is a huge milestone for us, probably nothing less than a paradigm shift.

Yes, the entire Sun Portal product will be available as open source software. To begin with, we are creating an open source portlet repository. This project will be seeded with JSR 168 portlets which are currently a part of the the Sun Java System Portal Server 7 distribution.

Over a period of time, we expect this project to evolve as a workspace for open source developers to develop a variety of JSR168 compliant open source portlets.

Check out the Open Source Portal Project
Check out the Portlet Repository Project

Posted at 10:09PM May 16, 2006 by Navaneeth Krishnan in News  |  Comments[4]

Comments:

that's great. but i've read in the license that it cost 57k $ per port or per cpu to use sun portal. is this right? how can you open source something that's not free source.

Posted by Bassel Mannaa on June 07, 2006 at 02:40 PM IST #

The money is only if you are buying support. Please refer to this link: http://www.sun.com/software/products/portal_srvr/faq.xml#q7 The source is currently not open. We have started the process of opening it up.

Posted by nav on June 13, 2006 at 03:32 PM IST #

ah! now i see i misunderstood the money issue. great. i've been following the issue of "sun and open source" and it seems that sun is serious about being part of the open source community. solaris, sun app server "glassfish", java, enterprise pack, sparc and now the portal. that's incredible. Bassel

Posted by Bassel on June 13, 2006 at 08:01 PM IST #

A virtual library of internet resources and reference tools.

Posted by Timothy on July 11, 2006 at 02:08 AM IST #

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