[uportal-dev] Merging Pluto 2 Development Branch

[Eric Dalquist]

Well the pluto 2 branch is finally at the point where portlets are generally functional. There are still things missing (like an error display if a portlet throws an exception) as well as most of the more complex JSR-286 features need work. With that said I think I'd like to start working on merging the pluto 2 branch into trunk next week. I would do the merge locally and get the changes moved into SVN in a single commit. I just want to make sure I'm not stepping on other developers toes when I do this though.

Here is a list of changes as well as issues I know about:

   * Pluto 2 integration, which means JSR-286 support!
   * Channels don't work anymore!
   * JSR-286 events, public parameters, URL properties and a few other
     things don't actually work yet
   * Upgraded to Spring 3.0
   * Switched to @Autowired as much as possible, the spring context
     files are MUCH smaller now
   * Consistent portal URLs have been implemented:
     https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/Consistent+Portal+URLs
   * The new URL syntax means that the portal context is the last
     folder in the path. The CSS/JS/Image URLs in the theme have all
     been fixed but all of the JavaScript callbacks have not. That
     means very little of the dynamic UI will work until we go through
     and get those URLs updated so they are always absolute.
   * No CError replacement yet. This means if an exception is thrown
     while a portlet is rendering there will be no content for that
     portlet. If an exception is thrown during an action I think you
     just get a blank page. Exceptions are logged plus hitting refresh
     actually does re-render everything on the page.
   * Lots of missing content in the default layout. A lot of our
     default content was still channel based, none of that renders
     anymore since channels don't work.





-Eric

Very little code has been removed yet. I wanted to wait until after the merge back to trunk was complete and the Pluto 2 integration was better flushed out. So while things like ChannelManager and ChannelRenderer are still in the code they are not used anymore. Once we get the Pluto 2 integration more stable we can start going through and essentially removing anything with "channel" in the class name (or at least that's the hope). So I'll be starting on this merging locally in the next few days, it will be at least a week before I have something ready to actually commit to trunk. If I hear objections before then we'll get them addressed, if not I'll post again when the merge happens!

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