Sonoma Portal / News: Recent posts

I'm keeping a "developer journal" in the docs section now.

A new binary should be out around the first of August (2004).

For questions, don't be shy, post a message in the forums or send me an email.

I could also use help solidifying the templates.

Thanks,
Roy

Finally, Sonoma Portal is on Beta 4. I plan on using the Linux-style version after version 1 is released. Sonoma is an XML/XSLT portal/cms system. It handles RSS and article postings pretty well.

After a busy winter working on other projects. I'm ready to start again on developing Sonoma. We should have a final beta out in a couple of weeks. Anyone that wants to help test or try it out is more than welcome.

The new "small ecommerce" catalog component has been added to the CVS. I'm interested in "what people think is a good shopping cart?". I've tried server side, sessions (bad), client side cookies. Currently I'm thinking about implementing a small javascript / client / cookie cart for Sonoma. (royh@korcon.com).

Beta 4 (the last beta?) will include a catalog maintenance compoent and a sample web store online. The code will probably use Paypal's shopping cart. If there is time, we will include on our own. We also hope to implement at new class for uploaded images.

I look forward for a new beta in a couple of weeks.

Beta 3 release of Sonoma Portal is online! This release offers a lot of improvments including using security realms for the admin login and easily selecting "themes" from the admin control panel.

By the end of the month we will have a Beta 3 release for Sonoma. Major changes improve using J2EE security Realms for Logins and Context Lookups for some application Parameters.

We also have 4 templates that can be selected from and have cleaned up the code quite a bit.

Thanks,
Roy

Beta 2 of Sonoma is online. It is much easier to install and setup. A few core features (such as creating sections and pages) were finished and added.

Beta 1 has been taking off-line. There were a lot of problems with the install and a lot of people were downloading it. Beta 2 (or something) should be up by the end of the week. When both are available Beta 1 should return. Of cource, all the code is available in CVS.

Thanks,
Roy

By the end of the month we should have a new beta or interim release of Sonoma. This release will have many bugs fixed and easier to setup. We have renamed most of the classes and added some key functions that were missing in the Beta 1 release.

Sonoma Portal is a Portal / Content Management system driven with XSLT and mostly DocBook files. Keep in mind, this is my first release (mostly for developers). There is a JSP interface that allows users to add/edit and modify content. Currently the system uses JAXP and XALAN 2.3.1.

SourceForge.net has been great getting a 'release' ready however it has been tough. I'm trying to make implementing the Java classes as painless as possible (apap?). I'm hoping within 2 weeks to have a release ready.

The good news is I've moved a lot of supporting classes out of the core project, which makes understanding how the portal will work simplier. I've also been able to delete about 20% of old classes no longer needed (this is also contributed to moving to Xalan 2.3.1). There is only a couple of places that require Xalan. With a little work, the code can be parser independant, only requiring JAXP.... read more

The core XML functions are now using Xalan 2.3.1. There were some issues before, the system was using Xalan 1.2.2 and JAXP

The Sonoma Portal project has been added to Source Forge. I haven't put a release build up but most of the code is online. Anyone wanting to help out is invited.