RE: [Springframework-developer] Road map

[Alef A. <al...@jt...>]

> Further issues are JSF and Portlet support. There is actually quite a bit
> of interest in these from various users/integrators; they are also
> important for us from a marketing perspective. I'm not keen on providing
> official support before 1.2, though.


JSF and Portlet functionality don't have to be provided in one and the same
release. I have been looking a bit into the portlet stuff and it doesn't
same all that difficult.

I think I'll experiment with it during the next couple of weeks. Major issue
is the common supporting functionality (ContextLoader, WebAppCtx,
Databinding) between our Web stuff and our future Portlet stuff (and
probably also the JSF stuff). Revising the supporting functionality right
now (or for 1.1) is not an option imo.

I probably can't avoid having to copy-and-paste a lot of code while
experimenting and since that's *not* something we want to have in a release,
I'm afraid you're right :(.

Alef