Ate, You know you have my support :) I am drooling over using wicket to replace Jetspeed 2's existing Velocity-based layout-portlets and decoration api.
Regards, -Scott (also a Jetspeed committer ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wicket-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ate Douma > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Wicket-user] JSR-168 Portlet support development started > > All, > > I finally got some time this week to start with the JSR-168 Portlet > support and I > committed my first set of changes for that to the 1_2 branch. > > Beware: this is still very much a work in progress (not "process" as I > accidentally > wrote in some commit messages :-). > > As you already can tell from my changes, this will require some big > structural > changes because currently Wicket is still very deeply entangled with the > Servlet api. > To be able to use Wicket in a Portlet context, *all* of that needs to be > abstracted > away to a generalized interface. > And, although I will do my best to keep as much of the current public api > intact, > important changes will be required. > > This is a "major operation" which will take easily several weeks or more, > and although > I'm very dedicated to get this working ASAP, I can only work on this in my > own free time. > Furthermore, although I have a rough idea what will be needed, it > certainly will take > some time before the whole picture becomes clear. So don't expect this to > be finished > or even stabilized overnight. > > Next week, I'll try to provide a global overview of the things I think are > needed. > > I think it also might be interesting to know why I'm working on the JSR- > 168 support. > I'm a core developer of the Apache Jetspeed 2 Enterprise Portal: > http://portal.apache.org/jetspeed-2. > And, I'm also the creator of the Struts Portlet Bridge which allows you to > use Struts > for JSR-168 Portlet Development. > > Since I created the Struts Bridge, other Portlet bridges were developed > too (not only by me) > and recently the Apache Portals Project Management Committee decided to > create a new > (and Jetspeed independent) home for these bridges: > http://portals.apache.org/bridges. > > And then came Wicket :-) > > We of the Jetspeed-2 team have become very interested in Wicket as > possible portlet > development framework. So, a few months ago, I got in touch with Eelco and > after some > discussions I agreed on joining the Wicket team and help providing native > portlet support. > I also like to mention that others from the Jetspeed-2 team have promised > to provide support. > > So, everyone interested in Wicket Portlets: please help out with > discussing, coding and > testing this baby. > > Regards, > > Ate Douma > > Oh, and I'm also Dutch ;-) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
