Eric, Matt, et al., I just want to throw in $.02 on this topic...
I think the practice of worrying about what portlets might or might not do with JS provided by the portal is unsustainable. I think it will tie us in knots and prevent us from doing what we need to and from moving forward. I think, if we start to worry about it, it will become the same issue we used to have with IChannels: we don't know what APIs are in use "in the wild," so we become fearful to touch anything.
IMHO portlets are 100% responsible for their own JS. Every portlet should be developed such that it is prepared to load every line of JS it may need on it's own. As a means of improving performance, however, portlets _may_ provide a _configurable option_ to piggyback on one or more portal JS libs... but anyone wishing to use this strategy is obligated to test it thoroughly (1) as they develop the portlet, and (2) _any time they upgrade the portal sources_.
If the portal changes what it's using, and that's no longer compatible with what a portlet is using, it's the responsibility of the _portlet_ to disable the piggyback feature until the portlet can be enhanced to work with the new version.
I think this is a sensible approach for these issues. drew On 06/10/2013 09:26 AM, Matt Polizzotti wrote:
Eric, Sorry it took me a while to get back to you. I don't believe the core framework is using backbone, but some portlets are using it. For instance, the News Reader Portlet is using Backbone to render its views. Off the top of my head, I am not sure which version the portlet is using but it may be looking toward the portal first to see if the backbone library exists. This would be the only concern that I can think of in terms of upgrading. Thanks, Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Dalquist" <[email protected]> To: "Matt Polizzotti" <[email protected]>, "uportal-dev" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 9:17:45 AM Subject: Backbone version in uPortal 4.0 I see that uPortal 4.0 is pulling in backbone 0.9.2 but I don't see any where that we are actually using it in the core framework. Do you see any problems with my upgrading to the latest version of backbone? -Eric
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