----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin A. Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: JetSpeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Mail gateway ?
> Ivar Vasara wrote:
> >
> > A couple of weeks back, I emailed Kevin (and subsequently this list)
about
> > possibly working on Jetspeed for my upcoming practicum. Unfortunately
> > things didn't quite work out as I had hoped and the idea of Jetspeed as
> > a project was scrapped..
> >
> > Things have taken an interesting twist though.. instead of a particular
> > project I'm doing an internship at the Vancouver Community Net
> > (freenet) helping them improve their webspace.. after much discussion it
> > looks like I'm going to be setting up jetspeed for them. The components
> > they most want is a web/email gateway (hotmail clone) and a voting
> > booth. My 'official' project is to help get the email gateway working as
> > they were looking at commercial options before I got here..
> >
> > I am definitely still just a student and Jetspeed is new to me, so I may
> > be over my head here (allocated project time is 16 hrs/week for 10
weeks)
> > especially with learning all the subtools (cvs, turbine, ant, etc?..)
but
> > I figured I'd announce my intentions anyway..
>
> Ok. Here is the scoop about the e-mail gateway.
>
> Jetspeed actually started out a long time ago (when it wasn't called
> Jetspeed or under Apache) and I decided to Open the source. Because soo
> many things have changed and the code basically became obsolete I
> decided to scrap my web gateway and work on the Portal infrastructure
> and then come back to the old code and port it to use XSP (see Cocoon).
>
> Mail-XSP (http://24.3.47.214:8080/cocoon/mail-xsp/index.html) has been
> written since then and does a pretty good job of integrating Mail and
> Cocoon. I have got the go ahead to make it part of Jetspeed and change
> the license to APL. It does need some work but will be a decent
> starting point. As per XSP/Java/Jetspeed integration it should become a
> Portlication. This is just a portlet with application="true" as an
> attribute (see the PortletBrowserPortlet).
>
> After this we should look over the old code to see if there is something
> that we can bring over.
>
> The hardest part is to get XSP to work under Jetspeed. There is a bug
> in Cocoon that prohibits it to work. It could be that I am just
> accidentally manifesting it with our
> JetspeedServletConfig/JetspeedServletResponse/JetspeedServletRequest.
>
Kevin -
Could you give a little more info on the bug that you are seeing with
XSP/Jetspeed?
josh
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