When is new portlet api is due to come out? Is it gona be the same lines of IBM
webspear portal Server API ?

thanks
Vinay

David Sean Taylor wrote:

> > Take the simple example of the Stock Quote Portlet.  I would
> > like for a
>
> Im working on now that now, hopefully I can get it checked in by the end of
> the week.
> Had a minor setback, decided to use Torque + Cloudscape in my web service
> implementation to store preferences in the web service.
> Its mostly worked out, except for inserts still don't work. If anyone has
> experience writing Torque db impls I'd appreciate a little help...
>
> > Similar examples would include MyFavoriteWebLinks or
>
> I wrote a bookmark portlet a while back for a client, still need to decouple
> it from their specific code.
> Don't want to bother with it until the new portlet api comes out (its going
> to be the old portlet api at this rate ;-)
>
> > Do each of these require that a custom portlet be written?
> > Should I be
> > using the Jetspeed Persistence Service?  Would this be a
> > candidate for
> > Velocity?
>
> Usually you have to write specific portlet customizers for specific
> portlets, although you can choose to inherit the default.
>
> JetspeedPersistenceService stores back to the PSML file.
> In the case of the StockQuotePortlet, I chose to store everything back to
> the web service.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:39 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Writing Portlets that support "User Preferences"
> >
> >
> > I have been searching through the documentation and mailing
> > lists and I
> > can't seem to figure out how to do a portlet that a user can
> > customize.  I
> > apologize for the soft question but here goes....
> >
> > Take the simple example of the Stock Quote Portlet.  I would
> > like for a
> > user to click on an edit button, get a new window either inside the
> > portlet window or a new window, allow the user to type in
> > (validate) a
> > stock ticker, and return to the portal window with the updated ticker
> > list.  This customization information would be saved in a
> > file or in a
> > database and pulled the next time the user logs in.
> >
> > Similar examples would include MyFavoriteWebLinks or
> > MyCustomerOrders,
> > etc.
> >
> > Do each of these require that a custom portlet be written?
> > Should I be
> > using the Jetspeed Persistence Service?  Would this be a
> > candidate for
> > Velocity?
> >
> > We currently use ejbs, coccon, xml/xsl in our current
> > architecture.  I
> > considered the XSLPortlet but that only uses a single xml/xsl
> > combination,
> > and the CocoonPortlet is not yet ready.
> >
> > I am currently thinking that I need to write a custom portlets with a
> > small database schema to store some of this metadata.
> >
> > Any recommendations are welcome!
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Jim Hughes
>
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