[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Neeme Praks wrote:
> 
> >
> > This is a little bit related to the WAP issue brought up and it is also
> > related to my real-life needs.
> >
> >
> > PSML could contain information about all the services available on the
> > site. All the services are pluggable in the sense, that you can plug out
> > all the services from the portal and it would still work (you can log
> > on, but there is no content). Also, you can add services later on to the
> > portal.
> >
> 
> I like the idea of this being pluggable. We probably need more discussion
> as to how this would look before we cut any code.
> 
> It would be very easy with the current state of development to get things
> intertwined into a monolithic application where everything depends on
> everything else. This, IMHO, is a maintainence nigthmare.

yup... -1.  This is why Portlets are good.  You can dock content in and
be done.  If a portlet relies on anything it should be a Daemon.
 
<snip>
> Anyway, with the pluggable service, side projects, such as iCalendar and
> project can be easily spun off as they grow and mature. As long as
> Jetspeed has a hook for the services Jetspeed can still utilize that code.

services == applications in this example.  You get all this now.  When
we get iCalendar done this is how I want it integrated.  

Kevin

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