Mike (and all):
Count me in on this as well, I think a standard Portlet API would be an
ideal thing for a number of projects I'm involved in.
Let me know how I can help!
Regards,
Mike
Jcorporate Ltd
http://www.jcorporate.com
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Rimov
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 5:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Portlet API
>
>
> > After working on a portal project for a while with my team, I'd
> > like to share some of our ideas.
> >
> > We see a big need for a standard Portlet API for Java that enables
> > application developers to implement portlets that are independent
> > of the underlying infrastructure. The Portlet API should provide
> > standard interfaces, e.g. for tasks like accessing user info,
> > storing/retrieving per-user per-portlet settings, accessing session
> > info, accessing location info, etc. It has to provide good support
> > for personalization of portlets. The Portlet API needs to be
> > flexible enough to support different technologies (e.g.
> > JSPs/servlets,
> > XML/stylesheets) to generate portlet content.
> >
> > We'd like to evolve JetSpeed's portlet API in this direction and
> > provide a portlet programmer's guide to give portlet developers a
> > quick start.
>
> I'm very much for defining a Portlet and Portlet Container API to
> standardize portlets. Everybody already is "cloning" the term
> Portlet. But what would be a huge service to the developer community at
> large would be to have a standard API to allow portlets written for one
> Portal to be easily switched to another.
>
> I think the only basic requirement for the core API that I would like to
> see is to have it independent of as many 3-rd party libraries as
> possible. So we'd want to achieve independence from ECS,
> Turbine, etc. We
> can always have classes further down the tree that use these
> libraries that
> we can derive the Jetspeed-specific portlets from.
>
> Count me in for help on this one!
> -Mike
>
>
>
>
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