Dave,
We are looking at using Jetspeed as a portal to wrap around our existing
product lines, but we are in the evaluation stages only at this time.
Currently, Jetspeed version 1.4 is NOT JSR 168 compliant, but version 2.0
will be JSR compliant. My understanding from posts on this board is that
2.0 will not be available until sometime towards end of 1st quarter 2004 at
the earliest. The only other open source portals I found out there are
Liferay and Gluecode. Gluecode is built on top of Jetspeed, and interesting
enough, so is IBM's portal solution (or so I have been told). Liferay is
EJB based, is JSR 168 compliant (according to their website, I have not
verified this personally) and is a nice product, but has no documentation
and very little following, so we have eliminated it from consideration for
our uses.
I believe it you go the Jetspeed web site there are some links to companies
who are using Jetspeed as their portal solution. Keep in mind that using
Jetspeed does require some ramp up time if you are not familair with Torque,
Turbine, and Velocity.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Celeste
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From: Wietzel, Dave {PBSG} [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:06 AM
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I currently support a portal product that we developed in-house for our
international communities.
In Frito-Lay international we have 40 independent business units that want
portal technology but are on a tight budget.
The reason I might suggest Jetspeed is because of JSR 168. I need to be able
to recommend a portal solution that can integrate components that adhere to
this standard. I beleive Oracle is heading this way both with their portal
and applications. We utilize Oracle applications in our international
companies. Of course, I do have my concerns about Oracle applications having
too much proprietary requirements on top of the standard to truly make it
plug and play with other portals, but if they do then it's a win-win.
I would like to recommend looking at Jetspeed, but I cannot find any
references to any production implementations of jetspeed.
Is Jetspeed still in a use at your own risk sort of state or are companies
using it as a production tool?
Is there a version that you would recommend we could look at to replace our
in-house tool?
Can the 1.4 version utilize LDAP for authentication? Is there any
documentation to describe how to implement this?
Any ideas when version 2 will become available?
I am also going through the Jportal examples. How is this different from
normal Jetspeed deployments?
Is there anything proprietary in it?
Will version 2 allow me to do LDAP authentication?
Dave Wietzel
PepsiCo International
972-963-6573
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