> "Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo" wrote:
>
> [Sorry for the HTML format, this is a bug (Q222508) in our Exchange
> server machine that the sysadmins have been too lazy to fix...]
>
> Hi Kevin, and thanks for your time.
<snip>
> > Use Jetspeed portlets. You get all this for free. :) The only
> > drawback is that you are stuck with Turbine layout. It is possible
> to
> > do whatever you want with this but you have to write Java or
> > stick with the current implementations and PSML.
>
> Kevin, I know you must be awfully busy, but could you expand a little
> more on this suggestion, and its drawbacks? FWIW, I don't mind at all
> writing Java code; actually, I expect it to be necessary . Anyway,
> if I'm reading you correctly, it should be possible to:
>
> * Write a portal-like site with Jetspeed.
> * Automatically connect to "news-like" sources of information
> (Slashdot,
> NY Times, whatever) using the Jetspeed facilities.
> * Have one of these "sources of information" actually be a
> Cocoon-based
> app that links to whatever legacy system I want to integrate.
That is it. That should work fine. This is what the CocoonPortlet is
for. :)
> > I need to start the path down a CocoonPortletController. It should
> be
> > impossible but just something that everyone has been arguing
> about....
>
> I didn't understand what you said here...
>
> One more thing: do you agree with this assertion by Rapha�l Luta?
>
> > Jetspeed is not an application or publication framework. I don't see
Yes and no. The only 'application' style functionaliy is just for
demo. But yes... it is 99% a publication/portal framework.
> > *anybody* building a whole site with jetspeed. Jetspeeed is used to
> > aggregate contents and publish this in one or several screens.
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