OpenPortal's presence at JavaOne 2008 and surrounding events
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Thanks goes out to all that were able to attend last night's JavaOne BOF, "Dynamic Portals and Ajax in Portlets".  There was lots of good open discussion about the challenges and successes of implementing new dynamic portals with AJAX.  The slides are available here.  Below is a list of resources URLs for some of the topics we discussed.  Check back here and at GregZ's blog for new developments regarding AJAX in portals and portlets.
JavaOne 2007 is only a week away.  This year, members of the portal team will be presenting the Birds Of a Feather (BOF) talk "Dynamic Portals and AJAX in Portlets". If you are interested in learning more and want to meet others with similar interests, please consider attending. We will be discussing:
  • the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on portals
  • AJAX and JSR-168
  • jMaki
  • JSR-286
  • dynamic inter-portlet communication
  • microformats, COMET, mashups, and more...
Hope to see you there.

Back at the JavaOne 2006 Conference, Sun announced that it was furthering it's commitment to Open Source by stating that the Sun Java System Portal Server will be among the next set of products that will transition from Closed Source to Open Source. This is part of the overall plan to do so for all of Sun's Software products portfolio, including middleware.

So today is a big step that shows commitment to delivering on that promise; the first core infrastructure component of the Sun Portal is now out there on java.net --
The Enterprise-class Portlet Container Open Source Project

Check out Deepak's blog articulating exactly what is available today, what are the future plans for the project, and how folks can join and participate in the community.

This is an incremental first step in opening up the entire Sun Portal Platform and moving it to a truly "open development" model. Please stay tuned as the team diligently works on getting the other components out there. We look forward to your participation. And to the sharing and learning..