Santiago Gala wrote:
El vie, 16-09-2005 a las 19:27 -0400, David H. DeWolf escribió:
Zheng had put together an initial framework for the Admin portlets. In
essence, the framework was as scaled down version of struts -
specifically designed for portlets. While it was great work, I am
personally opposed to hosting a framework (no matter how scaled down) in
pluto, simply because I could see maintenance of the framework alone
growing out of control quickly. Enhancement requests would role in
simply due to the fact that others are using the framework for different
portlets. . . .
I'm curious what others thoughts are. IMHO we have 3 choices. Please
indicate your preference:
[ ] Utilize an existing framework for the admin portlet. Why rewrite?
[ ] Roll our own framework for the admin portlet. Why not?
[ ] Utilize a simple controller portlet. Simplicity is best!
I'm -1 WRT rolling a framework for it, with basically your arguments.
I just wanted to point that, in case pluto wants to use something beyond
a controller portlet, the portals-bridges module
( http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/portals/bridges/trunk/ ) offers
several possibilities: velocity, struts, jsf, perl, php and soon python.
Part of me wants to utilize one of the the bridges frameworks just so we
have some inter-project cooperation. I guess I'd be a +1 for either the
"simple" approach or for the bridges approach.
This code is (if it isn't, it should be) completely free of dependencies
in jetspeed, just portlet-api, and is devoted to implementing frameworks
for portlet development using web technologies, such as Faces, Struts,
etc. Most bridges have little code, just enough to offer basic JSR-168
services to other technologies' developers.
I'm not that familiar with bridges so thanks for the heads up.
As the current policy in the Apache Portals project is to grant commit
rights to the whole project, any pluto committer has rights to commit
there.
Really? That's also good to know. I'm starting to like this approach
more and more. Anyone else?
David
What do you think?
Thanks,
David
Regards
Santiago
