A closer look at Jetspeed 2

Under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), many promising
open-source projects are taking shape. The ASF moved into portals with Jetspeed, the first open-source implementation of a Java-based portal. As portals took off, the broader Apache Portals Project took shape.

Building on Jetspeed and JSR 168 (the Java Portlet Standard), the project produced Jetspeed-2. Navaneeth Krishnan covered
what’s new, where Jetspeed-2 stands and more in the interview
What’s Happening with Jetspeed-2?
with David Taylor, a Jetspeed developer and JSR 168 member.

Jetspeed 2 — What’s new

• Fully compliant with the Java Portlet API standard
• Separation of portlet applications from portal
• Live deployment model for portlet applications and portal layouts
• Component-based architecture based on Spring
• Multi-threaded portlet aggregation engine
• Scalable cluster architecture
• Pipeline-based request processing
• JAAS security components
• Apache Portal bridges (Jakarta Struts, Java Server Faces, PHP, Perl integration, Jakarta Velocity)
• CMS-based site navigation
• SSO component
• Web content component
• Web services component

Related Dagblog articles

• (August 5, 2003) A Gateway to Portal Technology