RE: [Springframework-developer] Portlet and JSFs

[Ben A. <ben...@ac...>]

Hi

> 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 :(.

Several people have previously mentioned portlets and JSF. We are trying to
decide whether to implement portlets in our next project, or just stick to
include files and/or something like Sitemesh, Tiles etc.

Regarding portlets, there is the Pico-based Exo project
(http://exo.sourceforge.net/) and Pluto (http://jakarta.apache.org/pluto/).
Has anyone done any work on integrating portlets, JSF or projects such as
these into Spring? Would anyone be willing and have time to collaborate on
this?

Best regards
Ben