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> From: burtonator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Reptile Mailing List
> Subject: [LONG] The future of Jetspeed... is with Reptile
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> Hello.
>
> I have been vacant on this mailing list for a while. The
> reasons for this
> absence will be explained shortly. I would like to apologize
> in advance for the
> controversial nature of this e-mail.
>
> After creating the Jetspeed project and driving it to the
> point where it was
> about 8 months ago, I learned a LOT about what to do and what
> not to do when
> building a Jetspeed like application.
>
> I use the term "Jetspeed like application" because I believe
> the term Portal or
> Enterprise Information Portal has been used incorrectly. A
> lot of people have
> applied the term Portal to describe a client/server
> application which is behind
> a centralized web server.
>
> I do not believe this is the future of this technology.
>
> I believe the term Portal should be redefined to describe a
> fully distributed,
> XML centric, syndication framework with the addition of
> services such as
> Reputation, XML based content syndication, P2P style
> functionality (node-to-node
> caching, node-to-node syndication, HTTP layer which doesn't
> use DNS, etc),
> micropayment integration and language translation services.
> Privacy protection
> should also make up a significant portion of the project and
> it should support
> distributed, nym based authentication (which can drive reputation).
>
> They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I believe
> this describes the
> type of power this technology could give to the individual.
>
> http://relativity.yi.org/portal.png
>
> To that end, a friend (Fen Labalme) and I founded the
> OpenPrivacy project
> (http://www.openprivacy.org) and spent the last 8 months in
> research and
> development mode trying to figure out where this stuff was
> going. We began by
> focusing on using Reputation to measure the quality of
> distributed resources
> (URLs) and tried to incorporate this into correctly measuring
> privacy concerns
> so that one can use the system without fear of the Orwellian
> issues that arise
> from fully uniform and traceable systems.
>
> If you accept my redefinition of the term Portal it quickly
> becomes clear that
> Jetspeed won't solve these problems. The problem is that
> Jetspeed is a Java/Web
> application which uses XML in a limited manner. The correct
> interpretation
> should realize that XML is what is *most* important and that
> Java and any other
> specific technologies are used simply to optimize and transform XML.
>
> The Reptile project (http://reptile.openprivacy.org) was
> created to solve these
> problems and provide an implementation of this technology.
> Since its creation
> about a month ago the Reptile project has made amazing progress.
>
> - From an architecture perspective, Reptile is significantly
> different from
> Jetspeed. First off there is no plugin API. The only way
> content can make it
> into Reptile is via XML and a contentType. That said
> developers can still use
> Java code to produce XML and integrate it any way they want.
>
> Jetspeed could not function without the Portlet API. This is
> especially true
> because a lot of Jetspeed's own UI is generated with
> Portlets. Reptile handles
> this problem with Xalan extensions. This also has the added
> advantage of
> providing Reptile with a plugin architecture which supports
> other languages
> besides Java including Python, Javascript, etc due to the IBM
> Bean Scripting
> framework.
>
> Another main difference is that there is no PSML. Instead we
> use a system of
> layout, control and page schemas which can produce the same
> output but in a much
> more flexible manner.
>
> We have no capability system like the Jetspeed capability
> map. I expect this to
> be integrated soon but it is currently at a low priority. It
> will probably be
> integrated into our sequence dispatch system.
>
> Reptile does not use Turbine. I have mixed feelings about
> this. In some ways
> Turbine is great but in others it is a hindrance. Hopefully
> we can come up with
> a solution to this soon. I really feel that Turbine should
> to be split into
> multiple projects. Right now there is just too much code in
> one place.
>
> We do have PortletControl functionality within Reptile but it
> doesn't use Java
> and instead uses XML and a dedicated namespace.
>
> Due this new design I believe that it is currently more
> advanced that Jetspeed.
> The main advantage that Jetspeed provides is that people are
> currently using it
> right now and it is stable. I would invite everyone here to
> take a look at
> Reptile and see what they think.
>
> Reptile still has a bit of growing to do. CVS is currently
> very stable but I
> have refrained from doing a 0.0.1 release due to that fact
> that I want to
> incorporate more Reputation technology and features.
> Hopefully these will start
> landing over the next month and we will have a 0.0.1 release shortly.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin
>
> Resources
>
> - website: http://reptile.openprivacy.org/
>
> - screenshots: http://reptile.openprivacy.org/screenshots
>
> - current status http://reptile.localhost/features.shtml
>
> - snapshots http://www.openprivacy.org/nightlies
>
> - --
> Kevin A. Burton ( [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Cell: 408-910-6145 URL: http://relativity.yi.org ICQ:
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