Ray, Ray Martin wrote:
> I downloaded jetspeed version 1.3a2 because it was suggested that I get a > copy of a recent version to eliminate class loading problems. > > After some initial consternation with version 1.3a2, I find there are some > great things that I really like about the direction that Jetspeed has > taken. > > In the conf directory, the capability to have ones own portlet registration > is a great thing. I have no idea how Jetspeed knows about user portlet > registries. I looked to see if i could understand the principles involved > - still no idea. But, it works great and I like it. > > I want to use Velocity for simple portlets and Cocoon fof complex portlets. > > I have tried to understand how to place Velocity into a portlet. I have > examined demo-portlets.xreg I do not understand. > See the Portlet Catalog in the Jetspeed documentation, http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/site/catalog.html, for more information on configuring a portlet in the *.xreg files. > I need to place Cocoon2 into other portlets. I want the pipeline feature > of Cocoon. There was a CocoonPortlet avaiable in Jetspeed 1.3a1. I cannot > find CocoonPortlet in 1.3a2 > Their is no Cocoon portlet. I use a WebPagePortlet that displays content generated by Cocoon2. You can search the mailing list at http://www.mail-archive.com for more information about using Cocoon with Jetspeed. > I really like the CardControllerPortlet. I believe it is poorly named > because it is not relevant to portals. The CardStack in Java (Swing) > applications is very useful. To have this capability in HTML is just the > greatest. I like the version !.3a2 Tab Control. This is really great when > you want to have a card stack of card stacks. A design can manage more > information in a smaller footprint than any other method. > > I will turn off the TabControl on the main card stack - I want the > navigation from the left .vm to cause navigation of the main > CardControllerPortlet. I am still searching how to do this. The secondary > card stacks will have their TabControl visible. > Using left.vm is not required. You can create a navigation portlet and place it in you portal using the customizer. I believe this is also discussed in the mailing list. > After I have chosen my intial design using Jetspeed CardControllerPortlet, > Velocity templates and Java classes, and Cocoon pipelines with generators > and transformers - then, I will set my roles and permissions. On my site > information may be viewed without logging in. Any creations or > modifications of information will require authentication and ACLs to con > trol permissions. I am hoping that i can secure my initial design without > a total collapse. Any thoughts? In other words, I want to move through > all of my informations screens and tag them with role permissions. I am > hoping that Jetspeed does not hurt me bad by making me do a directory > re-structure just to handle the permissions of my portlets (information > views). > The security, and ACL stuff, is not fully implemented. The current implementation is described in a messages posted to the jetspeed-user mailing list, see http://www.mail-archive.com/jetspeed-user%40jakarta.apache.org/msg01868.html. > When I have this design (using Jetspeed, Turbine, Torque, Velocity, Cocoon, > and James) completed - it will be the most versatile design - one that I > will be able to reuse many many times. I currently have three sites - > hopefully more to the future. > > I hope to return the entire design to the open source community - WITH > DOCUMENTATION. > Great! > Thank you Apache Software Foundation. Thank you Jetspeed. > > Any pointers will be so greatly appreciated. > > thanx, > Ray > > Paul Spencer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
