Hi all,
Currently, the struts-portlet framework is within its own subproject. Recently, Roger Ruttiman added PHP and Perl portlet support to J2.
Other web frameworks I expect J2 to support for Portlet development in the (near) future are at least Velocity, JSF and Spring.
I propose to create a new portlet-frameworks subfolder under J2 to group these these framework wrappers/bridges, each as a separate subproject so they can be used independently.
To allow as much independence on J2 itself so portlets based on the bridges can also be deployed on other JSR-168 compliant portals, I also propose that these bridges should not contain any J2 specific code but only use J2 agnostic interfaces. The StrutsPortlet and the PHPPortlet already have such a spi. Jetspeed implementations of these interfaces should of course *not* be part of these subprojects but can go into the commons subproject.
Several common features of these bridges (like the spi of the StrutsPortlet and PHPPortlet which have the same functionality, or url parameter rewriting) should as much possibly be put in a common subproject.
The current o.a.j.portlet.ServletPortlet is also generic enough to be put there.
As a side note:
Next week I will start creating a base ServletRenderFilterPortlet which will (optional) allow SiteMesh to decorate the render result of portlets using servlet 2.3 (only from servlet 2.4 servlet filters can be used for included requests). I will then extend StrutsPortlet from the ServletRenderFilterPortlet so SiteMesh can be used to decorate Struts portlets. If it all works out well the ServletRenderFilterPortlet can also go into the framework common package.
I like also to propose a common base package for these bridges: org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.
Then you will get: org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.cocoon org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.common org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.myfaces org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.perl org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.php org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.spring org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.struts org.apache.jetspeed.portlet.framework.velocity ... (getting excited here)
As artifacts of these projects I propose: jetspeed-framework-<framework>-<version>.jar, and jetspeed-framework-<framework>-spi-<version>.jar (if needed)
Then you will get artifacts like jetspeed-framework-struts-2.0-a1-dev.jar and jetspeed-framework-common-2.0-a1-dev.jar
If we can agree on this proposal I'd like to have the struts portlet moved into this new structure early next week, so please be kind to respond asap.
Regards,
Ate
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