Hello all
Another newbie for the world of Jetspeed here. I'm evaluating using Jetspeed to build an internal portal to deliver small corporate applications (little simple use stuff like an app to track when customer maintenance contracts expire and stuff like that) as well as hopefully hooking into supplier systems to view orders and delivery tracking etc... your usual kind of enterprise portal stuff.
Others in my company are pushing for getting Websphere Portal Express, but I'd like to go the open source route. What I'd like to know is which version of Jetspeed should I be looking at? I see that my main choices are 1.5 binary war file, 1.5 from CVS and 2 from CVS. Which of these is the most usable and reliable (usable is probably the most important). At this point I am leaning toward looking at 2 as it claims to support the Sun Java Portlet API, meaning that if I developed for it and we switched to Websphere, I would have less problems porting over my portlets. How complete is the support for the SJPAPI?
Also, one of the big reasons that Websphere is being looked at, is obviously the integration between the server and their Websphere Studio applications, is Jetspeed able to integrate with any of the big Java ides, probably in particular NetBeans and / or Eclipse? Would either of these have any deployment modules available for them? I noticed mention of an Eclipse plug-in on this page: http://wiki.apache.org/portals/Jetspeed_2d2/RoadMap but nothing else.
Also I noticed a post just after I had joined the list asking when Jetspeed2 might be going beta, I too would like to know that (as obviously it would spur my decision).
Sorry about the length of this post, I hope someone on the list can take the time to answer.
Thanks very much.
Damien Byrne Technical Support Consultant
Integria Solutions Mercantile Chambers 53 Bothwell Street Glasgow G2 6TS
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