I'm with Luc here. And there's nothing stupid about it. It seems like
a lot of people came at this like I did: The Apache brand, good press
and a version number above 0.x make it seem like the product would come
up and be useful with a minimum of having to read long config files with
a puzzled look on your face.
The reason I picked up Jetspeed was it looked like it could be a
shortcut to fill my need to create an intranet portal where I could
offer our users a page like my.netscape.com with (mostly) local
content. I'm not prepared to write a line of java, and I'd prefer not
to have to read any either! (I'm plowing through "Just Java" in my
spare time, with an aim of being literate and informed, but I'm never
going to be a java programmer.) I _am_ prepared to create html, xml,
rss (I think) as automatic output from a variety of local systems. I
had hoped that Jetspeed could pick up this content and allow our users
to choose what they want to see, or allow me to offer predefined subsets
to various groups of users. From the posts of the last few days, I'm
not sure now that Jetspeed can do this "out of the box".
It sounds like there are others on the list with similar goals; maybe
we could work together. In the software's current state, though, I
think we'd only make real progress if we had help from the developers.
I'd also be willing to help make some kind of "Jetspeed for Dummies"
document. -- Brian
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>
> Hello,
>
> Note :
> ======
> I am NOT a "real" developer, I'm a special kind of user so what follow can probably
>seem very simplistic, and very stupid, but reading the list's messages it seem that
>I'm not, by far the only one in this situation.
>
> 1 About JetSpeed Install
> ========================
>
> Like a lot of people, I found Jetspeed install a real mess (probably mainly because
>of a lack of knowledge more than anything else)especially under NT.
>
> I just tried Jakarta Sub-project "Struts" (a Model 2 JSP framework) and I am VERY
>impressed by the install procedure.
> Its a three steps one :
>
> 1) place the war file in Tomcat "webapps" directory
> 2) Add two SUN's parsers to the Classpath (jaxp.jar and parser.jar)
> 3) fire Tomcat
> 4).. there is no number 4, the app is up and running
>
> No properties file to set up, no wondering "is this a complete path or a relative
>one that I must set up.. and relative to what ??" or "well I'm under NT do I need to
>use a slash before the disk's letter ?".. nothing, all paths included in the war file
>are relative to the directory.. a
> real dream.
>
> I'd love to have such a war pakage for Jetspeed
>
> 2 About JetSpeed usage
> =======================
>
> As it is presented, JetSpeed seems devoted to setup a public external portal that
>aggregates various external contents.
>
> It is a great thing, but I'm looking for the same kind of stuff allowing me to
>aggregate internal content, coming from various sources, text files, databases etc..
>
> In fact I'm setting up some kind of pilot for a corporate intranet stuff (in my case
>HR oriented), and what I'm looking for is some kind of "boxes holder".
>
> By "box holder" I mean a software that would ne able to display boxes, and manage
>user registration. Each box been filed with content coming from internal application.
>
> Using servlet and/or JSP I'm perfectly able to develop each box as a complete page,
>I just would like something that could allow me to put several boxes in the same page
>(I know, its exactly what a portal is,.. but..) and manage some user registration and
>preferences.
>
> So I suppose the answer to my problem is somehow : Of course, Jetspeed can do this,
>its even somehow what it is intended for , hassole !!!
>
> The answer to this answer is : OK it can do this.. but how ???
> All the doc (few in fact) I've found about JetSpeed seems to be based on the
>situation where I'd reinvent Yahoo... I don't.
>
> To be short my question could be said like that : can Jetspeed be used like a
>opensource version of software like Epicentric, and if the answer is yes, where could
>I found the required docuementation ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Luc
>
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