[PORTAL] News about the TCK

[Scott O'Bryan]

Hello everyone,

For those of you unfamiliar with the portlet-bridge project, it is 
essentially the R.I. implementation of JSR-301 and JSR-328.  For over a 
year some core people have been working on getting the R.I. up to par.  
The one piece that was missing from this was the TCK.

Well, Michael Freedman will be announcing the release of Portlet Bridge 
1.0, which will become the R.I. for JSR-301 pending approvals.  We also 
got the legalities of the TCK release figured out as well and I wanted 
to run things by the developers before putting a release of the project 
to a vote.

Essentially, the TCK exists, en total, here at Apache and is run using a 
plugable maven build script instead of Sun's Portal TCK Harness like we 
were planning on using initially.  What this means is that the TCK will 
be downloadable by anyone though the TCK project's svn repository right 
here at MyFaces. To my knowledge I think this is a first for Apache and 
will hopefully pave the way for continued support of the JCP from the 
Apache Community.

I'd like to start a vote to release the official TCK for JSR-301 
tomorrow but I wanted to do one final sanity check from the community to 
make sure this is still in line with what people want.  When we talked 
about the TCK earlier, there were many questions as to why this TCK 
could not exist completely in the open source community and, in the end, 
that's exactly what we did.

Thanks,
  Scott O'Bryan