I can't say for Jetspeed other than the very excellent examples that are listed on the website, but about a year and a half ago I used a modified Turbine for a P2P-support file-trading service that had to deliver web pages, XML pages and XMLRPC to hundreds of clients in short bursts. I've tried lots of other app-servers, and while some may be easier to wrap your head around as a new developer, none give you as much bang for your efforts.
I'm currently building an emergency response portal with Jetspeed; this will be a mission critical system to be used by major oil and gas companies who must respond to remote-sensing alerts by escalating alarms through to site owners, emergency services and the general public. Because of an absurdly miniscule budget (for life-saving software, go figure) and twice absurdly short timelines, Jetspeed is being held to it's namesake ... and so far so good ;) In just three days I have gone from zero to the basic framework with a public/client/staff/admin authentication, with servers able to trade information across the back-channel, import of RSS feeds from news/gov't services and hopefully by the end of the week I'll also be able to tie in to a major GIS service as a portlet. true, docs are, well, um, sometimes, ah, misleading or incomplete ;) but the code is solid and well documented. As a general tip for dealing with Turbine's development style, your best sources of information are the configuration file comments, the mailing list archives, and the source files, in that order -- the docs, I found at least, make much more sense /after/ you understand how it works ;) the list archives have many very good beginner guides issued in response to newbie questions and comments, so if you want to get up to speed quickly, you might want to keep your browser open on the archive pages. If someone would like to "pay back" the Turbine/jetspeed project for the hundreds of hours it's going to save you in dev costs, you might want to mine the archives for tutorial information and summarize them in a new set of docs. I did see mention of a new 100-page tutorial, but I haven't found it yet (haven't looked all that hard). I also found an excellent primer on the Jetspeed extensions at http://www.bluesunrise.com/jetspeed-docs/PortletHowTo.htm and you should also probably read http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2/services/index.html -- Gary Lawrence Murphy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - TeleDynamics Communications - blog: http://www.teledyn.com/mt/ - biz: http://teledyn.com/ - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Picasso) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
