Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise (Refinement)

2001-02-20 Thread Raphaël Luta
Santiago Gala wrote: ingo schuster wrote: At 20:04 02/16/01, Raphal Luta wrote: What would be the ideal time for an IRC chat ? Personnally I'd prefer either between 12:00 and 130:00 GMT (but I guess it's a bit early for the PST people out there) or near 19:00 - 20:00 GMT.

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-19 Thread Thomas F. Boehme
Steve, Suggestion: Add a configuration tag to the portlet definition which specifies whether or not the portlet will produce partial or full content. You probably mean the deployment descriptor, not the portlet definition... Suggestion: Create portlet wrappers for full content stripping

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-19 Thread Thomas F. Boehme
Steve, Can you give an example of how such a stub should look like? You may indeed have good ideas here... Cheers, Thomas B. - Original Message - From: "Steve Freeman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "JetSpeed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 21:32 Subject

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise (Refinement)

2001-02-19 Thread ingo schuster
At 20:04 02/16/01, Raphal Luta wrote: What would be the ideal time for an IRC chat ? Personnally I'd prefer either between 12:00 and 130:00 GMT (but I guess it's a bit early for the PST people out there) or near 19:00 - 20:00 GMT. Both times are ok with me. Did we already fix the day (Mo or

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise (Refinement)

2001-02-19 Thread Santiago Gala
ingo schuster wrote: At 20:04 02/16/01, Raphal Luta wrote: What would be the ideal time for an IRC chat ? Personnally I'd prefer either between 12:00 and 130:00 GMT (but I guess it's a bit early for the PST people out there) or near 19:00 - 20:00 GMT. Both times are ok with me.

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Freeman
Thomas, Excuse me for not being fully up to snuff... At 10:25 AM 2/19/2001 +0100, you wrote: Steve, Suggestion: Add a configuration tag to the portlet definition which specifies whether or not the portlet will produce partial or full content. You probably mean the deployment

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Freeman
, Can you give an example of how such a stub should look like? You may indeed have good ideas here... Cheers, Thomas B. - Original Message - From: "Steve Freeman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "JetSpeed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 21:32 Subject: Re: [vote] P

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Styling by portlet container ?

2001-02-18 Thread SCHAECK
Santiago Gala wrote: - we can first aggregate content, and then the container will lay it out and style it. (This is my view) This is an interesting thought, but how would the container know how to "style" content provided by a particular portlet ? There are simple special cases like

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-18 Thread SCHAECK
After the discussions we had during the last few days and before the upcoming decision, I'd like to provide a new summary of the current state of the discussion and explain IBM's position in a separate section at the end, after the dotted line. We are all in agreement about our common goal :)

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-18 Thread Sam Ruby
Thomas Schaeck wrote: Unlike the Servlet API, the Portlet API would additionaly provide explicit SAX support in the sax package and introduce a dependency on org.xml.sax, i.e. a separate package. Such a dependency of an API package to another API package that is not part of the core Java

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise (Refinement)

2001-02-18 Thread ingo schuster
At 20:04 02/16/01, Raphal Luta wrote: I updated the java docs in the proposals directory so that everybody can have a look at them. They are more detailed, but I hope that this mail did also make the idea clear. I still owe you a proposal that defines which rules document fragments will have

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-18 Thread SCHAECK
Sam Ruby wrote: Thomas Schaeck wrote: Unlike the Servlet API, the Portlet API would additionaly provide explicit SAX support in the sax package and introduce a dependency on org.xml.sax, i.e. a separate package. Such a dependency of an API package to another API package that is

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Summary and IBM Position (long)

2001-02-18 Thread Steve Freeman
At 07:36 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, you wrote: 2.Fragments and/or Full Documents (This affects portlet container performance and ease of implementation - and thus development costs) Alternatives: a) only document fragments concatenatable without post-processing - high-performance

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise (Refinement)

2001-02-16 Thread ingo schuster
I haven't had much feedback on the proposed compromise but after a private discussion with Raphal I think that some more detailed description will be helpful. Furthermore, even though my proposal allowed to use both approaches (portlets delivering output streams to the container as well as

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise (Refinement)

2001-02-16 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 14:33 16/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: I haven't had much feedback on the proposed compromise but after a private discussion with Raphal I think that some more detailed description will be helpful. Furthermore, even though my proposal allowed to use both approaches (portlets delivering output

RE: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise

2001-02-15 Thread David Sean Taylor
I'd like to applaud Ingo for stepping up and trying to find a middle ground. Impressive ascii-diagram too :) SaxPortlet has specific knowledge about the portlet container's implementation of the response. Now the portlet container's ResponseImpl can provide additional methods such as

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-15 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 23:04 14/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: Raphael Luta wrote: At 23:56 13/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: I think it is useful to provide a little summary of the current state of the discussion. I tried to give a neutral summary on each item, followed by my opinion. Thomas, I think it's a

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-15 Thread Santiago Gala
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: Do you mean that javax.servlet.* is more standard than javax.xml.* (Trax and Jaxp)? What I am trying to point out is that it is not good for a standard Java API depend on other Java APIs that are not part of the JDK classes. If you

RE: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise

2001-02-15 Thread ingo schuster
At 08:11 02/15/01, David Sean Taylor wrote: I'd like to applaud Ingo for stepping up and trying to find a middle ground. Impressive ascii-diagram too :) SaxPortlet has specific knowledge about the portlet container's implementation of the response. Now the portlet container's ResponseImpl

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-15 Thread Santiago Gala
Raphal Luta wrote: (...) I would agree to this only if you can show me workable fragment guidelines for non nestable markups like WML or SMIL. (I don't know VoiceXML but I gather it's also non nestable). What I mean by "non nestable" is that the markup does not provide a general element

RE: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise

2001-02-15 Thread David Sean Taylor
Not really. If you want to process sax events in the portal engine, then it doesn't make sense to convert it into a stream in the SaxPortlet and reparse it on the other side of the portlet in order to convert it back into sax events. I wasn't suggesting that! Guess I misunderstood the

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-14 Thread Santiago Gala
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is useful to provide a little summary of the current state of the discussion. I tried to give a neutral summary on each item, followed by my opinion. Point 1: Should JetSpeed require portlets to produce full documents ? Producing full documents

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-14 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 23:56 13/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: I think it is useful to provide a little summary of the current state of the discussion. I tried to give a neutral summary on each item, followed by my opinion. Thomas, I think it's a very good summary of the issues. I have just 2 things to add/modify to

Re: [vote] Portlet API - Compromise

2001-02-14 Thread ingo schuster
Hi, I'm meanwhile convinced, that this discussion won't lead to a consensus, if each of us keeps defending his view on a technical level. However, I really like to find a compromise that everybody can agree on. On a meta level of this discussion, I can see the point that it would hurt the

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-14 Thread SCHAECK
:45 AM Please respond to "JetSpeed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: JetSpeed [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [vote] Portlet API [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is useful to provide a little summary of the current state of the discussion. I tried to give a neutral summary on

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-14 Thread SCHAECK
Raphael Luta wrote: At 23:56 13/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: I think it is useful to provide a little summary of the current state of the discussion. I tried to give a neutral summary on each item, followed by my opinion. Thomas, I think it's a very good summary of the issues. I have

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-13 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 22:24 12/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: Raphal Luta wrote: snip templating system description Point 1: Should the Portlet API mandate that portlet only output full documents rather than document fragments ? You mean here "proper" markup? This is more radical thant point 2. And impossible to

RE: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-13 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 22:35 12/02/2001 -0800, you wrote: Ive been reading this thread with interest. I have some comments, questions and suggestions: Point #1 - Portlet API mandate that portlets only output full documents rather than document fragments: - There is some confusion WRT portlets producing document

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-13 Thread Thomas F. Boehme
don't implement, I am not going to run". Portlet portability adios! Cheers, Thomas - Original Message - From: "David Sean Taylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "JetSpeed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:35 Subject: RE: [vote] Portlet API Ive been readin

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-13 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 18:44 12/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: At 14:12 02/12/01, Raphal Luta wrote: Following the discussions on the Portlet API, there's no strong consensus on the following points of the Portlet API and so they should be voted upon. For those who did not follow the arguments, pleae read the "Secure

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-13 Thread Raphaël Luta
At 22:04 12/02/2001 +0100, you wrote: Raphael, I think we should not decide on these two points as isolated items, they need to be put into perspective to make sure that everybody fully understands the consequences and implications before voting. The larger question behind this is whether we

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-13 Thread Thomas F. Boehme
because through the SAX mechanism complete output would be injected into the otherwise correct page. Now I will shut up and not comment on this particular topic anymore. Cheers, Thomas B. - Original Message - From: "Santiago Gala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "JetSpeed"

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-12 Thread Santiago Gala
Raphal Luta wrote: Following the discussions on the Portlet API, there's no strong consensus on the following points of the Portlet API and so they should be voted upon. For those who did not follow the arguments, pleae read the "Secure Portlets" thread in the mail archive before

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-12 Thread ingo schuster
Raphael, Please let us clearify your questions a bit more (see my comments below). At 14:12 02/12/01, Raphal Luta wrote: Following the discussions on the Portlet API, there's no strong consensus on the following points of the Portlet API and so they should be voted upon. For those who did not

Re: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-12 Thread SCHAECK
Raphael, I think we should not decide on these two points as isolated items, they need to be put into perspective to make sure that everybody fully understands the consequences and implications before voting. The larger question behind this is whether we want JetSpeed to be a

RE: [vote] Portlet API

2001-02-12 Thread David Sean Taylor
Ive been reading this thread with interest. I have some comments, questions and suggestions: Point #1 - Portlet API mandate that portlets only output full documents rather than document fragments: - There is some confusion WRT portlets producing document fragments vs full documents. AFAIK,