I haven't tried it out yet but congrats to everyone for their hardwork. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:39 PM, William Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, > > I just downloaded the quickstart and gave her a whirl. Amazing! > Congratulations to you and everyone who put in time on this fantastic > release. uP3 is a polished, modern, portal framework by and for > higher ed we can all be proud of. Well done. > > A dream come true! :) > > Bill > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Eric Dalquist > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > JA-SIG is proud to announce the General Audience release of uPortal 3.0.0. > > uPortal 3.0.0 GA is the culmination of a significant effort by many people > > in the uPortal community to take a revolutionary step with the uPortal code > > base. > > > > Full release notes are available along with a uPortal 3.0 release overview. > > The release notes page includes links to the milestone and two release > > candidates that preceded this GA release. > > > > This release includes the following new features and fixes: > > > > A standard project structure and build management system using Maven 2 with > > Ant utility scripts. > > Use of the Pluto 1.1 portlet container which provides future-proofing for > > eventual JSR-286 support. > > A single Spring application context with much of the portal application > > configuration residing in this context. > > Database import and export utilities using Cernunnos scripts. Thanks to > > Andrew Wills from Unicon for this work. > > A new theme and skin along with a more understandable directory structure > > for layout and skin related files. The new skin is also using jQuery to > > provide drag and drop features which are enabled by default. Thanks to Gary > > Thompson from Unicon and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. > > Layout cache friendly dynamic title support for channels and portlets. > > Dynamic titles for channels and portlets work on every render now. Thanks > to > > Nick Bolton from Unicon for this work. > > Quickstart generation scripts. Quickstart generation is now as simple as > > running an Ant task. > > Consistent cache scheme and configuration based on Spring-Modules Caching > > API. Most existing dynamic caches have been converted to use the new API > and > > it is currently backed by EHCache though other caching frameworks can > easily > > be used. > > CAS 3.2 is bundled with uPortal and is used as the default authentication > > mechanism. Thanks to Scott Battaglia from Rutgers, Andrew Petro from Unicon > > and Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. > > CAS Proxy tickets are available to JSR-168 portlets as a user attribute. > > Thanks to Jen Bourey from Yale for this work. > > New default content that provides a better first-impression and > > demonstration of the uPortal framework. > > Over 150 bugs, improvements, new features, and tasks resolved since 2.6 > > > > Source and Quick Start downloads are available on the uPortal All Release > > page. JavaDocs and developer-centric materials are available on the > > project's Maven site > > > > This release is ready for general use. If you do find any issues please > file > > them in the JA-SIG Issue Tracker > > > > I want to thank everyone who contributed to the development both directly > > and in-directly. Having this developer community available for both code > and > > design insight has been invaluable. > > > > A more press-release centric announcement will follow tomorrow on the > > uportal-user and other lists along with the uPortal web-site and other > > locations. > > > > uPortal 3.0.0 Release Engineer, > > -Eric Dalquist > > -- > Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education > Solutions: The Community Source Way!" > April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA > > Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and > more! > Information/Registration at: > http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html > > Subscribe to the conference blog, The Community Source Way > http://jasig2008.blogspot.com, for news and updates about the event. > > Join the Conference networking site at http://ja-sigspring08.crowdvine.com/ > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev >
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