Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002

Portlet JSR: Dominic wonders about the status of the portlet JSR. It is now numbered 168. My well-informed contacts tell me that it will go into community review next month. We will be looking at it closely for integration into the Cocoon portal as soon as anything becomes public.

Mainstream: As Nico notes, weblogging is becoming mainstream. My godchild Leonie also has a weblog! Welcome.

Cocoon insight: Dominic is looking for some insight into building Cocoon portals. Here we go. If I read his notes right he wants to build a portal that aggregates RSS feeds. Right? Ok, so here is what you will need to do: Install the current Cocoon version (with the portal) Configure a pipeline to fetch the RSS (notice I did not say "program") Use the provided tools to add the feed as a coplet (portlet) Use the provided tools to configure your portal (for say different user groups) Change the Stylesheet (XSL) that displays the portal (if you want a different look and feel - and you will). That's it. There is already a demo portal contained in Cocoon and this demo portal already fetches RSS feeds from various places - so this can be used as a template. You will not need to write any code! You may also like to take a look at this presentation. Or this article.

Adobe again: Tony Collen has added some information to yesterday's posting on Adobe offering new products.

Take the test: Introducing the web service orange juice test.