There is a preview version of the WebSynergy plug-in available at Portal Pack project site. This NetBeans plug-in supports portlet development and deployment on the new WebSynergy and also works with Liferay. For more details read here...

Here is a new voice-over screencast that demonstrates the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) feature in Sun Java System Portal Server. In this screencast, I have explained how to create a WSRP Producer, Consumer, and a channel/container to publish remote portlets in Sun Java System Portal Server.

The screencast also explains interoperability feature, by demonstrating how to consume remote portlets from Netunity producer in Sun Java System Portal Server.

Go through the screencast and watch this space for OpenPortal WSRP version 2.0 implementation screencast, soon.

1. WSRP Eventing
2. Shared/Public render parameters
   

1. Install Instructions
2. User Guide
3. WSRP v2 Coordination samples

1. Install Instructions
2. User Guide

1. Provides a base v2 implementation by porting v1 implementation to v2 schema's.
2. Provides both version 2.0 and version 1.0 WSRP Producer implementation.
3. Supports sharing of resources like registration-handle/portlet-handle across v1 and v2 WSRP Producer services.
4. Provides both version 1.0 and 2.0 implementation of Consumer.
5. Provides the necessary administrative interface to create a v1 or v2 Consumer.
6. Supports backward compatibility by supporting both v1 and v2 stacks.

 OpenPortal campaign @ Foss.IN's first day started with a bang at Bangalore. It was very well
received by the developer community. The BoF sessions were a hit which is evident from the fact that 2-3 BoF sessions needed to be conducted parallely.
OpenPortal team also gave a handout of all community projects under the OpenPortal umbrella. It also made a well-crafted survey received eagerly by the developer community. On the first day itself, we were able to collect around 80-90 responses.

The survey responses were very positive and almost everyone had something or the other to look forward to from Portal and wanted to at the least become an observer.

 BoF's gave a wonderful way of interacting with the community.

The enthusiasm received re-affirms the fact that the developer community and the market in general has been awaiting a cutting-edge Enterprise level OpenSource Portal Server.

Now FOSS.IN moves to penultimate day where we are trying our best to maintain the momentum.
 

Check out the BoF announcement booth which was marked as "BlockBuster"

 
One of world's largest FOSS events, FOSS.IN 2007 is opening in Bangalore. Sun is a platinum sponsor of this event. Sun is participating in almost all the events throughout the five days of conference: Project days,Presentations Demos, Hack center, BoFs, Lightning talks
Click here for the official FOSS.IN page.

is also registering its presence via a host of demos and BoF sessions.Check out this blog for more details

The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets TC has recently approved Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification v2.0 as a Committee Draft and is available for public review. The public review starts from 31 October 2007, and ends 15 November 2007.

This specification was previously submitted for a 60-day public review on 24 July 2007, this 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. All changes are highlighted.

The specification document and related files are available here.

Highlighted PDF copy is available here:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-spec-pr-04-highlight.pdf


The schema and wsdl files are available at:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-bindings-pr-04.wsdl
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-extra-pr-04.xsd
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-interfaces-pr-04.wsdl
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-service-pr-04.wsdl
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-types-pr-04.xsd

WSRP 1.0 beta and Portlet Container 2.0 beta is now available as part of the Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Beta release.

The Java Portlet Specification, 2.0 (JSR 286) adds new features like events, public render parameters, resource serving, and portlet filtering to the Portlet Specification, 1.0 (JSR 168). Portlet Container 2.0 Beta provides a preview of these new features as defined in the JSR 286 Public Draft 1.

You can download the same from here.  Here are some links to related resources

• Release Notes
• Installation Instructions
  

The Portal Pack 2.0 Beta (NetBeans Portlet Plug-in) is available as a separate download that helps developers to develop, deploy and test portlets onto the Portlet Container 2.0 Beta.  

Recently the JSR 286 draft was released for public review. The list of major changes in this new spec can be found in Deepak's blog. One of the new feature introduced in this new portlet spec is "Resource Serving". 

In short, the resource serving feature provides the ability for a portlet to serve a resource which may be protected by the portal security and can leverage portlet context. More details about this new feature can be found in my blog.

The NetBeans Visual Web Pack helps developers create JSF based web application using drag and drop support for JavaServer Faces components. The current version of Visual Web Pack doesn't have support for JSF based Portlet Applications. Most probably this functionality will be addressed in the future version of Visual Web Pack. But many users who have been migrating from Sun Studio Creator to NetBeans 6.0 are asking about this feature in various forums. So I spent some time to find out if it's possible to build JSF Portlet with the current version of Visual Web Pack and Portal Pack plug-in.

With a few manual steps you can actually get JSF Portlet Builder functionality using NetBeans Visual Web Pack and Portal Pack Plug-in togather. For more details read here. 

The OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets TC has recently approved Web Services for Remote Portlets Specification v2.0 as a Committee Draft and is available for public review. The public review starts from 24 July 2007, and ends 22 September 2007.

Schema/WSDL files are available here:

• http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-extra-pr-03.xsd
• http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-types-pr-03.xsd
• http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-bindings-pr-03.wsdl
• http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-interfaces-pr-03.wsdl
• http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsrp/v2/wsrp-2.0-service-pr-03.wsdl

Thanks to everyone who helped put The Portal Post on Sun's Hot Blogs list!

Here's a little something in return: most people don't know this, but you can try many of our most popular portlets (and, sometimes, the back-end services to which they connect) for free! For example:

Elluminate Live! - 60-day, 25-user free trial of Elluminate's distance collaboration/eLearning environment. It includes app sharing, whiteboarding, collaboration via VOIP and IM, recorded transcripts and much more. We resell Elluminate Live!, and our customers love it! Check it out.

YellowBrix - 30-day free trial of real-time feeds of 130,000 breaking news stories culled daily from premium sources, including the BBC, the Financial Times, USA Today, Washington Post, LA Times, and thousands of industry trade journals and magazines. Sign up today!

 
Lotus Notes/Microsoft Exchange - Yash Technologies offers free trials of its SyncEx portlets to connect to Notes or Exchange. You want to call them to set that up.

877.257.1343 (Toll Free)
847.903.2564 (outside U.S.)
e-mail: support@syncex.com

BTW, if you need more time to conduct your evaluation, all of these companies are very accommodating.

Also, although some ISV's don't publish free trials, if you're seriously considering them for purchase, most will be happy to set you up.

Enjoy!

Kim Buck

Portlet Container 1.0 FCS is now available as part of the Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Preview release. You can download the same from here.  Here are some links to related resources

• Release Notes
• Installation Instructions
• Screencast: Learn how to deploy and test portlets using the Portlet Container
• Article: Understanding the Portlet Container 1.0 Software and Deploying Portlets

The Netbeans Portlet Plug-ins help developers to develop, deploy and test portlets on to the Portlet Container 1.0.  There are new versions of the Portlet Plug-ins that are now available that work with the above Portlet Container version. The Netbeans Portlet Plug-ins are available as the part of  Java EE 5 Tools Bundle Update 3 Preview.

Checkout Deepak's  and Satya's blog for more details.

This Portlet Container open source project milestone 1 beta is now available as the part of Java Application Platform SDK Update 2 release. You can download the same from here.  Here are some of the links to the documentation.

• Portlet Container Release Notes
• Portlet Container Installation Instructions
• Portlet Container Screencasts
• Article: Understanding the Portlet Container 1.0 Beta Software and Deploying Portlets

The Netbeans Portlet Plugin is also available which works with NetBeans IDE 5.5 or above, current release of NetBeans Portlet Plugin helps developers to develop, deploy and test portlets on the Portlet Container 1.0,  You can download the same from here .  Here are some links to the plugins documentation

• NetBeans Portlet Plugin 1.0 Release Notes
  
• NetBeans Portlet Plugin 1.0 Installation Instructions
  
• Article on Developing Portlets using NetBeans Portlet Plugin
  
• Other Articles and User guides available on netbeans.org

For more details refer to Deepak's and Satya's blogs.