Brian Doherty wrote:
>
> 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.
I am sorry. There is really not a lot we can do about this. A lot of
people have mentioned it before but no one has come up with a solution.
There are just some steps you have to do... like creating the cache
directories, setting your temp dir, etc. If you come up with a better
solution let us know.
> 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 can do a lot "out of the box". It can do all of the above. Just
fiddle with it. You can get HTML integrated via the FileServerPortlet,
RSS/XML through the RSSPortlet and Cocoon. Seems to me it can work
right out of the box.. just read the docs :)
> 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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Jetspeed is at the best state it has ever been. The code is fast and
solid. It might be hard to use but I am really open to hearing
suggestions on how to fix it. I have heard a lot of people mention this
but haven't heard any decent solutions :(
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