Hi,
currently we are trying to bring core features of it back to open source.
That will take a few weeks, and we will bring out some "filter-portlet",
which should handle this stuff. Still parts of the functionality should
find their ways to the core engine...
Marcus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pablo Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Freitag, 10. November 2000 16:13
> To: 'JetSpeed'
> Subject: RE: Portlet API
>
>
> Hello:
> Is your AdvancedFileServer portlet free? I would like
> to use it in my personal project.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Lerenc, Vedran [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: martes 7 de noviembre de 2000 7:41
> Para: 'JetSpeed'
> Asunto: RE: Portlet API
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to add some more words to the topic of incorporating
> documents from
> the web into the portal. I am working with Marcus and
> refereing to David
> Sean Taylor's answer on Marcus' posting concerning an "advanced file
> server".
>
> > Your discussion is very relevant to some of the problems I am
> > experiencing.
> > My portal is aggregating web pages from several different
> sources, and
> > frequently from the same company's intranet where they seem to reuse
> > stylesheets and scripts, but they make minor changes to them
> > So yes, you are describing a real headache for me right now.
>
> It was and still is a headache to us, because Jetspeed is
> doing nothing
> along these lines to help incorporate arbitrary documents
> into the portal.
> So we started to write an AdvancedFileServer which forwards
> cookies from the
> portal's sources to the client's browser and vice versa,
> rewrites relative
> URLs to absolute URLs, redirects HTML hyperlinks to the
> portal which then
> gathers the originally requested document and incorporates
> this into the
> portal, redirects HTML form actions to the portal in the same ways as
> hyperlinks are redirected, includes JavaScript files into the
> page, so that,
> e.g. JavaScript variables or HTML form input variables can be
> escaped to
> avoid name clashes and to allow addressing and assigning
> escaped HTML form
> input variables inside JavaScript code.
>
> CSS could be handled in the same way as JavaScript includes:
> Load them,
> escaped them and include them into the returned page.
>
> In summary: There is still much more work to do, also due to the great
> amount of wrong but browser-accepted HTML code in the web,
> but right now we
> can e.g. include www.amazon.com into a portlet and fill our
> shopping cart
> right inside our personlized portal page or request
> finance.yahoo.com to
> list quotes whose symbols we entered inside a portlet.
>
> Beside the fact that the solution is incomplete and will stay
> incomplete for
> a long time, the actual portlet approach helps, but isn't
> enough. We need to
> access the generated portal page header and the table row and cell the
> content is stored in.
>
> I am new to the portlet API discussion, but thought that incorporating
> arbitrary documents from the web into the portal should
> somehow be taken
> into consideration when thinking about something like a
> portlet API. In any
> case this topic should be adressed by the community to avoid
> so many people
> either rewriting their content or writing something similar to the
> AdvancedFileServer we had to write.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vedran
>
>
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