Endre St�lsvik wrote: >| >| Easiest way to get an "historical perspective" on this subject is to >| >| browse the Jetspeed mailing-list >| >| archives from October 2000 to March 2001, you should get most of the >| >| conversations that >| >| occurred about this API. (look mainly for the Portlet API thread...) >| > >| >I can't seem to find archives for that old messages anywhere. The >covalent >| >archives are apparently down or something. The mbox archives @ >| >http://jakarta.apache.org/mail/jetspeed-dev/ start at March 2001. Google >| >doesn't give me any hints. Were the lists called something else at that >| >time? >| > >| > >| > >| Yes, it's true. At that time the maiiling-list was >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] >| You can find the archive at: >| >| http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >This archive apparently doesn't go earlier than 2000-12-31, that is, new >years 2000/2001! Do you have any idea where October 2000 to 2000-12-31 are? > >(Basically, what I'm wondering about is the IBM involvment. The german dudes >from IBM's "pervasive computing division", are they primarily involved with >Jetspeed in a professional or private setting? It seems like it at some >point definately turned professional, since IBM WebSphere Portal implements >the proposed Portlet API. But did it start out professional too? In >addition, I wonder about the Porlet API as a whole. Is basically a >contribution from IBM, or is it developed as a truly joint effort between >Apache's Jetspeed group and IBM?) > > > From my understanding of IBM position, the involvement of Thomas, Ingo, Stephan was professional. They proposed an initial Portlet API, which we discussed somewhat and modified a little mainly to add SAX support and talk about the PAR files (if I remember correctly we reached an agreement near february/march 2001 so this makes it the most interesting read in the archives).
They then contributed an implementation of the Portlet API that currently sits "portlet_api" branch of Jetspeed. I'm currently evaluating how to integrate smoothly some (most) of the work done in this branch in the current Jetspeed context. -- Rapha�l Luta - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Services Manager Vivendi Universal Networks - Paris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
