Thanks again.
I have decided to do the only sane thing and to download BOTH CVS versions and have a look at the default deploy of both and to see if the Jetspeed 2 one makes me flee in terror.
Thanks again for your input.
I won't bother asking re the problems I've been having with 1.5 till I've deployed 1.6
Cheers Damien
Scott T. Weaver wrote:
Damien Byrne wrote:
Hi Scott, Thanks for replying so quickly.
If I may then summerise what you said (just to see if it filtered into my coffee ravaged brain :-) you seem to be indicating that whichever I choose, it should be a CVS version? I have set up a test deployment of the 1.5 binary release and it seems to have problems refreshing rss feeds and now seems to be messing up the icons and graphics intermittantly (more off than on though). Also, all the feeds that were pre-cached in the war, seem to be from 2002, does that mean that the binary version is quite out of date in terms of updates and fixes? So if I want to use 1.x version, it should be CVS?
CVS would be your best bet. I haven't used J1 in a while so I can't comment on your issues. Best to post the specific problem to the list and see if anyone bites.
Next that Jetspeed 2 is pretty much feature complete (barring beta testing bugs etc) from the backend/engine point of view, but doesn't have the non-xml editing/non-techie users administration console?
Exactly.
I assume then that the 1.x CVS copy has a similar admin console to the 1.5 binary, maybe even a bit improved?
Each release 1.x has done a very good job of addressing bugs and improving the UI. So, from past experience I would have to say yes.
How lacking is 2 CVS to 1.x CVS? I assume the 1.x CVS still needs maven to deploy portlet wars?
As I said before, it is a the navs and admin portlets primarily. Other than that, the two are hard to compare due to their radically different design architectures.
Finally, if I were to go with Jetspeed2, how relevant are the portlet creation tutorials from Jetspeed1 and could you recomend any online or printed resources on developing jetspeed2 portals?
There are a lot of books coming out on JSR-168 portlet development. David Taylor is finishing one up with a couple of IBMers from the Pluto project. Someone also posted a link to a book from Wrox press a couple days ago that addresses open source portlet development using the JSR-168 standards. Hopefully, within the next couple of months, David Taylor and I will be able to finish up our book on Jetspeed 2 being published by Manning.
I believe that IBM websphere portal is based on jetspeed to some degree, would any of the IBM developer guides be of use, or is websphere too diverged from jetspeed?
Way diverged! They share nothing but the org.apache.jetspeed package prefix. I think there was schism in the Jetspeed ranks in the past and IBM "took their ball and went home", so to speak. That being said, the JSR-168 portlet standard is based very closely on IBM Websphere portlets. However, I would try to stick to 100% JSR-168 tutorials as to avoid "vendor creep" if you will.
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