[Springframework-developer] Portlet MVC - Status?

[Erwin V. <erw...@er...>]

All,

I've been integrating Portlet support into the Spring Web Flow system and 
today I also added a portlet based version of the PhoneBook sample 
application.

SWF Portlet support builds on the Spring Portlet MVC framework, which brings 
me to the question: what is the status of Spring Portlet MVC? A recent 
discussion on the DEV list states that it will be a key feature of Spring 
1.3. However, there also seems to be a lot of confusion as to how up-to-date 
the sources in CVS are 
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.springframework.devel/7997) and 
who is actually working on it/maintaining it. The Wiki page 
(http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/spring/display/JSR168/Home) also 
seems to given the impression that's it's not ready for prime-time yet.

Since SWF is now dependent on Spring Portlet MVC, we need to make sure it is 
ready for release in the 1.3 timeframe. Also, since SWF is already releasing 
preview releases (we have preview 2 coming up this weekend!), we need to 
make sure the Portlet MVC code we're shipping with that (which is the code 
from CVS) is actually in up-to-date!

Could somebody please try to clarify the Spring Portlet MVC situation a bit?

Erwin Vervaet
erw...@er...