Punit Pandey's Weblog on Portlets, WSRP, OOA/D and J2EENowadays, I am working on Portlets, WSRP, OOA/D, AOP, Design Patterns, Software Methodologies, J2EE and More. I will try to post related information on this blog.Portlet Framework- October 30, 2004 Portlets, like model-I JSPs, need some framework to keep code manageable. While saying framework, initially we are more concerned with the basic structure of the portlets. There are various methodologies available like State Pattern by IBM. Here in this article authors has suggested that portlets have three major functions - 1.Validate 2.Store Data 3.Prepare Request Based on above assumption, he has tried to standardize above three major processes of portlet development. Idea is new one and,..http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/portlet_framework Most Popular Portal Server- October 27, 2004 Which is the most popular portal server in the market It is the one of the most frequently asked questions in portal world and I believe that no one has the right answer. There are various surveys and research reports but all telling different stories. One report is saying that IBM is leading the market and other-one is saying that Plumtree is the market leader. Most of the reports don't consider open source portal servers at all, I don't know why In my opinion no research can be said complete..http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/most_popular_portal_server WebSphere Portal 5.1- October 27, 2004 IBM is going to release version 5.1 of WebSphere Portal. The release is long awaited and I have still to see it. But from the available resources, following are the major additions in features - 1. Integrated workflow engine 2. Multiple Site Support 3. Improved Content Management (Lotus Workplace Web Content Management, JCR, Search) 4. Improved Document Manager (Tree View, JCR) The next major release i.e. Portal 6.0 is targeted around 2Q05.http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/websphere_portal_5_1 Enterprise Portal Content Management- October 19, 2004 Content Management is one of the major motivations behind portals. But it is really unfortunate that there is no portal solution (at least in java world) that can fulfill even the basic content publishing requirements. A basic content management solution contains at least a content repository, content creation methods, content publishing methods, workflow and an API for content manipulation. In the past I have given a look on few major portals and reached to this conclusion. First, as usual, I.http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/enterprise_portal_content_management CA to buy Netegrity for $430 m- October 8, 2004 Its biggest acquisition since 2000, marking its return to inorganic growth mode, after shelving acquisition plans due to government probes in its accounting practices. Computer Associates International Inc. will buy Netegrity Inc. for about $430 million, adding a key Web security product as it expands in the fast-growing security software sector, the company informed. Check complete story here.http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/ca_to_buy_netegrity_for WSRP FAQ- October 2, 2004 For quite long, I had not checked OASIS's website. Today somehow I got the link of WSRP FAQ and found it contains answers of many common questions (yes, I know it is FAQ). For people who don't know what is OASIS, it is the committee taking care of WSRP standard; in fact many web services related standards. WSRP is still an evolving technology and on my WSRP discussion forum, people ask very basic questions. Most of the people are not very sure what WSRP can do, what it can not, how to do that...http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/wsrp_faq Porting Struts Application to eXo Portal- October 1, 2004 Struts is already the most popular web application development framework and there are tons of applications around, built on top of it. Introduction of portlet as a new web development mechanism has created porting challenge for existing applications. Not all applications are easy to port to portlet framework. But most of the popular framework especially Struts has many bridges already developed to instantly port existing Struts applications to portlet framework. Framework bridges are portal...http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/porting_struts_application_to_exo |