RE: [Springframework-developer] Portlet and JSFs

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

Hi Bill

> Rutgers is very interested in Spring support for the Portlet 
> API in the form of a PortletDispatcher as it were.  We run 
> the uPortal[1] platform and the latest release embeds Pluto.  
> We are just now embarking on dev cycle for new porlets that 
> takes us thru september, if possible these new portlets would 
> live behind a Spring PortletDispatcher.
> 
> We have had some preliminary dicussions with Alef about what 
> it might look like, and should be in a better positition to 
> try out some ideas/code in a few weeks.

I took a look at uPortal but wondered how hard it would be to get Spring MVC
capabilities living within a portlet window. Have you actually done anything
like this as yet, or are your Spring applications essentially "traditional"
(dedicated JSP/VM etc)?

Best regards
Ben