"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote : Most of the people I've dealt with don't find the freebie portlets useful at all. They do very little of the heavy lifting, and other OS portals seem to offer a bucket of google and toy portlets that I find quite useless, atm.
I agree with you on this one. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote : So why don't you articulate your needs, instead of asking broad and general questions? I need a portal system that provides me, out of the box, with - a Wiki - a Forum - a News System - a Blog I then want to write my own portlet and add it to this configuration. The important things for me are: 1. That I can specify roles such as "Guest is allowed to read all content in Wiki, Forum, Blog and News but not the content in my own portlet" and "user is allowed to read the content in my own portlet and read/write in forum and wiki" and so on. I want to define that in a central spot so that it effects all portlets installed. 2. Once a user is logged in, he can navigate in the whole portal and use it according to the rights and restrictions associated with his user account. (Single sign on) 3. I want to create a portal page with login field and menu on the left and my portlet and the news portlet in the centre. From the menu, a user can navigate to Wiki and Message Boards. Depeding on the logged in user, the menu has to change (e.g. if I am logged in I probably want a function to edit the content in my own portlet which a normal user can't do). 4. I don't want the user to be able to change the layout of the portal page (eg. I don't want the user to be able to close the news portlet so it disappears) 5. I want that my own portlet can access his own database which is disjoint from the portal database (I want to manage my own data) 6. I want that my own portlet can access the filesystem to read and write files it has to manage. (No, I don't want to use a DB-BLOB) 7. That I can use a template-like technology to change the design and look&feel for all components involved "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote : Would it soothe you to know I'm a man of my word? ;-) Well, I know that JBoss Portal will most likely evolve very fast. And I tend to put more trust into JBoss than some companies that might be behind other portal system. So you have the advantage of my trust. Yet the issue remains: I have to get a job done (see above). I can wait for the "out of the box" portlets for a few weeks or months (e.g. if you say "we are working on providing a super Wiki portlet but that won't be done until July" it would be fine with me.) But I need to get the portal done. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote : The freebie portlets they have are intimately tied to their struts-portal-architecture, so portability is a no-no. That is, in fact, a serious issue! I will investigate that. thanks scrut View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3877378#3877378 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3877378 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
