Chris, this is an interesting post.
I am interested in exploring the Cocoon portal for Knowledge Management purposes, therefore an integration of a threaded discussion forum (for structured information exchange) would be great. Holger On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Chris Dietz wrote: > > On the portal subject... > > Has anyone seen a message forum and/or group calendar > integrated > with the cocoon portal? > > I am starting to evaluate jetspeed. any thoughts? > > -chris > > > --- Carsten Ziegeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The portal and authentication framework are used in > production since > > years now - I don't have any links handy right now :( > So, you can > > call the framework usable and stable. > > > > I can't compare the cocoon portal with jetspeed, > because that wouldn't > > be objective enough, I fear. But if you want to use > Cocoon anyway, use > > the Cocoon portal; if you want to build your > application based on > > XML and XSLT (for example for multi-channel), use the > cocoon portal. > > If jetspeed provides everything you need know and in > the foreseen future, > > well...aeh...use the jetspeed portal of course. > > > > In general, I guess the cocoon portal is more > flexible because of it's > > XML/XSLT nature - so you can add new features, > integrate new portlets > > without writing one line java code; it's just a > matter of "configuration". > > > > The development of the cocoon portal will continue > and it will be even > > more powerfull and extensible than it is now. > > > > Just a teaser: What do you think of a portal that can > run "cocoon portlets" > > and jetspeed based portlets at the same time? > > > > Carsten > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Tony Linde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:35 PM > > > To: Cocoon-Users-List > > > Subject: Portal: usable now? Usable in future? > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am PM of a project that needs to deploy a > workable but customisable > > > portal as one of its components. The team working > on this has set up a > > > Jetspeed-based solution using the demo site. I was > wondering how usable > > > the Cocoon portal webapp is and whether anyone has > compared it to the > > > Jetspeed one. > > > > > > Also, is work still continuing on the Auth and > Portal webapps? And is > > > there a release date for them? > > > > > > We have to release incremental builds of the > project but the final > > > release isn't until end of 2004 so I'm happy for us > to work with beta > > > code (and even contribute to it if it adds to our > project functionality) > > > as long as it seems a viable long-term project. > What are the long-term > > > prospects of the Portal? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tony. > > > > > > __ > > > Tony Linde Phone: +44 (0)116 > 223 1292 > > > AstroGrid Project Manager Fax: +44 (0)116 > 252 3311 > > > Dept of Physics & Astronomy Mobile: +44 > (0)7753 603356 > > > University of Leicester Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Leicester, UK LE1 7RH Web: > <a href="http://mail.cswebmail.com/jump/http://www.astrogrid.org">http://www.astrogrid.org</a> > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]