Hello, I had a couple preconceived notions about how portals might work before I installed and began to play with jetspeed.
1. I thought it might be possible to resize various portlets by dragging on the border. 2. I thought that portlets might be able to update themselves independently of others. For example, consider two portlets. I'm in the middle of typing an essay into a form in one portlet. Before clicking "submit" on that portlet, I want to click "refresh" on the other to get the latest stock price, or some other value out of a database. But when I do that, the *whole* page refreshes (not just that portlet), so I lose all the info I'd just typed. I think that these features would be possible of portlets were displayed using frames rather than as elements within a table. I can imagine that there would be disadvantages of this approach (eg. needing a separate HTTP Get for each portlet, plus one for each layout controller), but maybe the advantages would outweigh them for some situations. Has anyone else thought of this? Implemented it? Do any other Portal products out there do this sort of thing? Are there serious disadvantages that I haven't thought of? My colleague is considering writing a controller class that does this, and we'd be interested in your collective wisdom. Thanks, John. -- Dr John Yesberg TCS Group, ITD, DSTO DJFHQ, Gallipoli Barracks, Ph. (07) 3332 7664 Enoggera, Qld. 4051 Fax (07) 3332 5056 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
