Re: Portal Engine questions

[Nick]

Hi Eric,
First of all, the sample doesn't show how to customize a Portal. What
approach I should use? What is the recommended solution?
 

Read this:
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/developing/portal/index.html
and
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/developing/webapps/index.html
You will have to spend quite a bit of time for going through these docs, 
but they tell everything about the portal engine.

Secondly, where is the user configuration saved? In a database?
 

coplet configuration is saved in:
{your portal block directory}/profiles
User info is stored in:
{your portal block directory}/resources
Use of files is customizable and you can add any database (RDBMS, XMLDB 
of LDAP) if you need to.

Thirdly, take example of a News Coplet (like the one provide with the
samples). How a user (or administrator) can add/delete a RSS feed
dynamically (without changing the sitemap)?
 

It either reads the newsfeed that are local form the offline direcotiry 
or goes to the specified web site to get the RSS.

Finally, is there documentation on using an LDAP server for the
authentication?
 

There is an LDAP transformer - just read the docs
Hope that helps.
Sincerely,
Nick.
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