[Digi-developer] greetings - JSR168 compatibility strategy?

[Chris G. N. <cg...@gl...>]

Greetings -=20

A numer of folks are working on architecture for agricultural and =
environmental decision support portal, outlined at: =
http://iserver1.ciat.cgiar.org/mms/CGIAR_prop.html . We are working with =
the folks of http://www.earthsystemgrid.org for the 'heavy lifting' =
computationally, and folks like: http://www.fews.net and =
http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/ for foundation data feeds.

Our initial thoughts were to build out on either the eXo platform, =
http://www.exoplatform.org, or follow along with the new JBoss portal =
effort. But clearly working with you guys has a lot of advantages, in =
that you have thought through the JAAS and multisite/multilingual =
aspects a lot more than anyone else.

Is there any strategy for writing digi TILE applications in such a way =
that they might also be JSR 168 compliant, and/or that the TILE engine =
might some day also support portlets?  Or are these two concepts =
unreconcilable?

thanks -=20

Chris Nicholas
GlobeXplorer

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Donald Deering; Garik Gutman; Sergey Bartalev
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Chris:

Many thanks for your email that touches upon a subject of great and =
increasing
interest to us.  I am currently traveling and cannot quickly access the =
websites that you mentioned, but even so, I can assure you that the =
issues of
strengthening capacity for decentralized and independent monitoring of
environmental and natural resources management is a significant priority =
area
for many of our projects in this area.

Since I am traveling, I would recommend that - while you are in =
Washington next week - you try to set up an appointment with my =
colleague Robert Kirmse
(202-458-8509, rk...@wo...), who has a good professional =
knowledge and understanding of forest inventory and monitoring systems.

I would also be interested personally in learning more about your =
activities and proposals in this area, so I would appreciate you keeping =
me in the loop.

Best regards,

Andrey

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Andrey V. Kushlin, Ph.D.
Senior Forestry Specialist, ECSSD
The World Bank, Mail Stop H-5-503
1818 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
Tel.: (+1-202) 458-7268;  Fax: (+1-202) 614-0005
Email: AKu...@wo...
http://www.worldbank.org/forestry


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