Jetspeed1.4 has introduced 'category' idea for portlet, but i feel current design,
implementation and use of portlet category seems a little ambiguous. My company is
working on jetspeed, and i redesign and implement portlet category function. There are
two main desicion i have made:
1, portlet's category info should be separeted from portlet's self definition(in the
xreg file)
2, admin is (and common user may also be) able to customize the whole category info
hierarchy by logging into jetspeed.
As a result, i has designed a simple xml schema to store category info, provided a
turbine service for read/write category info, wrote a special portlet to manage
category info, and changed the jetspeed customizer a little for adding the support of
category when selecting portlets.
The design and implementation is simple and unmature, but i think the basic idea is
helpful. if anyone (especially contributors of jetspeed) is interested in what i have
done, please refer to http://rd.sh.symbidia.com/~ocean/en/work.htm. I hope that can be
contributed to jetspeed source.
thanx a lot!
