I've been playing with Jetspeed for the better part of a day and am pleased to report that I haven't encountered any real problems (yet!) - it started fine, and I was surprised how easy it is to create a rudimentary portlet.
Some initial comments and questions come to mind. 1. Finding resources is sometimes difficult. Thank goodness for Google caching the Portal Howto, and thanks to somebody on this mailing list making the .war file available :) 2. Continuing from this, am I myopic or is the populate-mysql.sql file not in the full binary .war package ? 3. According to the "Portal How To", "starting with version 2.0 of Jetspeed, ECS will be deprecated." I actually welcome this because ECS may be fine for engineers but it results in the most unappealing webpages using basic html :-) Anyway, what will replace ECS ? And how far off is Jetspeed v2.0 ? 4. Yes, Jetspeed was quite slow initially. Then I removed some of the portlets (xmlhack and some other newsfeed) and it improved. 5. Hitting "back" never works, the browser always reports "page has expired". 6. Is there any documentation for all the variables in the .vm files ? There's stuff like $clink and $l10n and I have no idea where they came from. 7. The "Customize portlet" page for all portlets shows 2 pulldowns, namely "Skin" and "Security ID". I think that these aren't really of interest to my prospective users. How do I customize the "Customize portlet" page ? Some of the above are just comments, but if anybody could help with the question marks above, any and all feedback is much appreciated. Thank you, Stephen. --------------------------------- Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs.
