Hi Jetspeeders,

I need to build an intranet portal for a big company (15,000 potential
users, probably more likely to be around 4,000-5,000 active users). I
haven't been following Jetspeed for the past year and I need your help
to know if it can be used on that project.

Let me give you more details on what features I would need. I would very
much appreciate if you could tell me how much I would need to work to
make that happen using a Jetspeed infrastructure ... :-)

Could you rate with the following scale :
* 0 : not possible, 
* 1 : lots of coding to do, this is not a built-in feature,
* 2 : a little coding to do, but very well in the scope of jetspeed and
a known feature
* 3 : exist as a feature, can be used as is or through some
configuration but with no coding required

Features needed :

- Ability to map the authentication and authorizations to an existing
LDAP schema.
- Ability to display portlet list based on user role or other criteria
coming from LDAP (such as the Office Branch of the employee)
- Ability to customize the content of a portlet based on user role,
language, country, and other parameters coming from LDAP (employee
branch, etc)
- Any JAAS support ?
- Page content parsing for URL rewriting : I can see there is already a
URL rewriter (actually a new implementation seem to be in progress). How
much would I need to code/debug/improve to make it a reliable and fast
solution ?
- Fine-grained Portlet caching : per user, per URL (including HTTP
parameters)

Also :

- Performance : All the jetspeed web sites I have seen were not
particularly fast. Is there any known issue WRT performance ? Do all the
performance issues come from aggregated content or is the Jetspeed
framework itself (or Turbine) a bottleneck ? Or is it Tomcat (does it
make a difference running jetspeed on Resin) ? Is there any work going
on at the current time to improve performances ?

- I think IBM is using Jetspeed as the base for WebSphere Portal Server.
If so, is IBM working on a new branch of Jetspeed or are they working on
the same Jakarta CVS version ? 

- We plan to use mostly the WebPage Portlet (with caching of course) and
the JSP portlet. Any issues with these 2 ?

- Has anyone developed any Web SSO feature for the WebPage Portlet (for
example supporting Basic and form-based authentication) ? For example,
for each Application you could configure a SSOWebPagePortlet in the
config file, passing SSO parameters and reading credentials from a
store.

Overall, would you recommend using Jetspeed for a full fledge intranet
of such a size ? Would you use it yourself for that ? Do you foresee any
issue ? 

Lots of questions ... ! 

Thanks a lot for your help
-Vincent


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