RE: [Springframework-developer] Portlet and JSFs

[<jef...@si...>]

> we'll need something workable in about a month <

Us too! 

Jeff W. Boring 




-----Original Message-----
From: spr...@li...
[mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
Of William G. Thompson, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:13 AM
To: spr...@li...
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Portlet and JSFs


jef...@si... wrote:
>>Would anyone be willing and have time to collaborate on this?
> 
> 
> yes. I start work next week for a new company where I'll be developing a
> portal product. I have experience with Spring & Hibernate but have only
used
> Struts as the MVC. I am currently evaluating Jetspeed and uPortal. uPortal
> has a 168-portlet adaptor out now. Jetspeed-2 (based on Pluto) is not
ready
> yet but they report good progress.
> 
> If a Spring PortletDispatcher supported JSR-168 then it seems like it
would
> work for Jetspeed-2 & uPortal (also LifeRay &eXo). Is this right?

Exactly!

  What
> release of Spring would the PortletDispatcher be in, 1.01 or 1.1?

I would push for as soon as it is fully baked...for the timing to work 
out right for us we'll need something workable in about a month...and 
hopefully in an official Spring release by August.

later.
Bill


> 
> Jeff W. Boring 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spr...@li...
> [mailto:spr...@li...]On Behalf
> Of Ben Alex
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 2:33 AM
> To: spr...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Springframework-developer] Portlet and JSFs
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 



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