Comments on: J2EE Portals ready for prime-time? http://blog.kischuk.com/2003/11/07/j2ee-portals-ready-for-prime-time/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 19 May 2010 15:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bryan Cheung http://blog.kischuk.com/2003/11/07/j2ee-portals-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-245 Bryan Cheung Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:27:58 +0000 http://rkischuk.wordpress.com/2003/11/07/j2ee-portals-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-245 If anyone comes across this old article, be aware that Liferay is now in release version 3.5. Some major changes since: 1. Hot-deployable Themes and Portlets 2. New portlets out of the box, including navigation portlet 3. Portlets can be added to CMS content 4. JSR-168 compliant 5. Supports JSF 6. "Professional" version: You can run Liferay in a servlet container now by simply switching a property. Also, community support is available at forums.liferay.com. Documentation is constantly being updated and improved. Check us out at www.liferay.com. If anyone comes across this old article, be aware that Liferay is now in release version 3.5. Some major changes since:

1. Hot-deployable Themes and Portlets
2. New portlets out of the box, including navigation portlet
3. Portlets can be added to CMS content
4. JSR-168 compliant
5. Supports JSF
6. “Professional” version: You can run Liferay in a servlet container now by simply switching a property.

Also, community support is available at forums.liferay.com. Documentation is constantly being updated and improved.

Check us out at http://www.liferay.com.

]]> By: Benjamin Mestrallet http://blog.kischuk.com/2003/11/07/j2ee-portals-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-244 Benjamin Mestrallet Mon, 22 Dec 2003 05:50:47 +0000 http://rkischuk.wordpress.com/2003/11/07/j2ee-portals-ready-for-prime-time/#comment-244 Hi I will comment your comment on the eXo platform : "Both their blessing and their curse is their dependency on JBoss" Not any more, you can have it on jetty, tomcat and jboss. A WAS is on the way. Theorically it is now possible to deploy it on every application server. Note that it is still possible to hot deploy portlets (as soon as the application server support WAR hot deployement). "Also, after playing around with it for a bit, I found the documentation rather lacking in many respects, such as LDAP integration" That is right, documentation as important as we would like it to be. But this is a time consuming task :) Anyway, we will do it for the final 1.0 release. By the way using an LDAP with the eXo platform is very simple : (1) change the Realm (2) change the OragnizationService implementation to access your LDAP. Actually most of the documentation has been published as articles on TheServerSide site. There is also the unit test set which is by far the richest place to get information... "Both admin and use of this portal could be best summarized as confusing." Have a second look :) Hi I will comment your comment on the eXo platform :

“Both their blessing and their curse is their dependency on JBoss”

Not any more, you can have it on jetty, tomcat and jboss. A WAS is on the way. Theorically it is now possible to deploy it on every application server. Note that it is still possible to hot deploy portlets (as soon as the application server support WAR hot deployement).

“Also, after playing around with it for a bit, I found the documentation rather lacking in many respects, such as LDAP integration”

That is right, documentation as important as we would like it to be. But this is a time consuming task :) Anyway, we will do it for the final 1.0 release. By the way using an LDAP with the eXo platform is very simple : (1) change the Realm (2) change the OragnizationService implementation to access your LDAP.

Actually most of the documentation has been published as articles on TheServerSide site. There is also the unit test set which is by far the richest place to get information…

“Both admin and use of this portal could be best summarized as confusing.”

Have a second look :)

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