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30 December 2007 - Apache Jetspeed 2.1.3 Released

The Apache Portals Jetspeed team is pleased to announce the release of the version 2.1.3 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal.

Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard under the Apache license.

Version 2.1.3 is a minor update to the 2.1.2 release.

New Features and improvements in Version 2.1.3:

• Big Desktop Performance Improvements
• Complete Desktop Customization with same feature set and configuration as Portal
• Dynamically hide Portlets at request time
• Improved LDAP implementation and documentation for Apache DS 1.0.2
• Full PSML and XML Import / Export Admin Portlet
• Maximize on edit-defaults feature
• New 'Edit Defaults' custom portlet mode
• New 'Config' custom portlet mode
• Parallel rendering on Websphere 6.1
• Preliminary Portlet API 2.0 ResourceURL support allowing full response control
• Provide out-of-the-box Wicket Portlet support
• Support for Pocket PC

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/release-notes.html

Jetspeed 2.1.3 source and binary distributions, including a standard and a full demo installer, are available from:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html

Both Maven-1 and Maven-2 signed jars, wars, POMs and plugins are now available from Maven Central:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven/org.apache.portals.jetspeed-2/

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/portals/jetspeed-2/

We hope you enjoy using Jetspeed! If you have any questions, please consult:

• The web site: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/
• The jetspeed-user mailing list: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/mail-lists.html

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-- The Apache Portals Team

30 December 2007 - Apache Portals Bridges 1.0.4 Released

The Apache Portals Bridges team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.4 of Portals Bridges.

The Portals Bridges Project provides Portal independent integration with Web Frameworks such as JSF, Struts, and Groovy, and JSR-168 compliant Portlet components.

Bridges 1.0.4 is a bug fix release with added features:

• Auto Dispatching to custom portlet modes
• Enhancements to Groovy and Velocity Bridges
• Full support for redirects in JSF Bridge
• Support for Spring Framework 2.0.5

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/release-notes.html

Portals Bridges 1.0.4 distributions are available from:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/download.html

Both Maven-1 and Maven-2 signed jars, wars, POMs and plugins are now available from Maven Central:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven/org.apache.portals.bridges/

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/portals/bridges/

We hope you enjoy using Portals Bridges! If you have any questions, please consult:

• The web site: http://portals.apache.org/bridges/
• The bridges-user mailing list: http://portals.apache.org/bridges/mail-lists.html

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-- The Apache Portals Bridges Team

09 August 2007 - Apache Pluto 1.1.4 Released

The Apache Pluto project is proud to announce the general availability release of Pluto 1.1.4, the latest stable release of the JSR-168 (Java Portlet Specification 1.0) reference implementation.

This is the fifth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto. Pluto 1.1 is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0. Pluto 1.1 provides simpler integration of the portlet container, and simpler configuration of the Pluto portal driver (a simple portal included with Pluto).

Pluto 1.1.4 includes support for JSP 2.1, updates to the Pluto Portal, Tomcat 6 installation support, and bug fixes related to url and portlet request attribute handling.

The Apache Pluto project provides the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification.

For more information or to download the release, please visit:

Website: http://portals.apache.org/pluto

Release Notes: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v11/release-notes.html

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-- The Apache Portals PMC (Project Management Committee)

16 July 2007 - Apache Portals Jetspeed 2.1.2 released

The Apache Portals Jetspeed team is pleased to announce the Jetspeed 2 Enterprise Portal release 2.1.2.

Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Information Portal, written all in open source under the Apache license in Java and XML, and build upon an open component architecture and standards.

Version 2.1.2 is primarily a bug fix release but also adds enhancements such as:

• Virtual Portal support - Subsites by Hostname
• PSML and XML Import / Export Admin Portlet
• Audit logs for administrative actions
• Support for JSP based decorators

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

* http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/release-notes.html

Jetspeed 2.1.2 source and binary distributions, including a standard and a full demo installer, are available from:

* http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html

16 July 2007 - Apache Portals Bridges 1.0.3 released

The Apache Portals Bridges team is pleased to announce that Portals Bridges 1.0.3 has been released.

The Portals Bridges Project provides Portal independent and JSR-168 compliant Portlet components.

Bridges 1.0.3 is primarily a bug fix release but also adds a few enhancements such as a new Groovy Bridge and a generic PortletResourceURLFactory interface allowing JSR-168 portal containers to already provide Portlet ResourceURL functionality similar to what JSR-286 very likely is going to provide natively.

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

* http://portals.apache.org/bridges/release-notes.html

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-- The Apache Portals Bridges Team

19 May 2007 - Apache Pluto 1.1.3 (GA) Released

The Apache Portals project is proud to announce the General Availability release of Apache Pluto 1.1.3. Apache Pluto implements a portlet container which complies with the Java Portlet Specification.

This is the fourth GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0. Pluto 1.1 allows for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container and simpler configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a simple portal included with Pluto.

Pluto 1.1.3 is a feature and bugfix release, and represents the most stable release of Pluto.

The Apache Pluto project provides the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification.

For more information or to download the release, please visit:

Website: http://portals.apache.org/pluto

Release Notes: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v11/release-notes.html

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-- The Apache Portals Project

03 March 2007 - Apache Jetspeed 2.1 FINAL released

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the final release of the Jetspeed 2.1 Open Source Enterprise Portal.

Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Information Portal, written all in open source under the Apache license in Java and XML. Jetspeed is build upon an open component architecture based on standards. All access to the portal is managed through a robust portal security policy. Within the Jetspeed portal, individual portlets can be aggregated to create a page. Each portlet is an independent application with Jetspeed acting as the central hub making information from multiple sources available in an easy to use manner.

Version 2.1 continues the evolution of the Jetspeed portal technology, with a more stabilized codebase. This release includes many new features including Web 2.0 client-side aggregator, distributed portal and portlet caching, parallel rendering and aggregation, and many more improvements and bug fixes.

This final release is fully-compliant with the Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR-168).

The Jetspeed team will be presenting the new 2.1 release at ApacheCon Europe 2007 in Amsterdam.

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Jetspeed 2.1 Release
March 3, 2007
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New Features in Version 2.1 include:

* Jetspeed Desktop - Web 2.0 client-side JSR-168 portlet aggregation.
* Parallel Rendering - multithreaded portlet aggregator with portlet timeout tracking, removal of slow rendering portlets.
* Jetspeed Distributed Cluster - support for distributed deployments of the portal on multiple application server platforms
* JSR 168 Caching - full caching support of JSR 168 portlet specification, distributed cache invalidation
* TCK Compliant as of 2.1 (2.0 was compliant as well)
* Custom Portlet Modes and Window States - a "print" PortletMode and "solo" WindowState are now standard supported
* Improved LDAP support - full security maintenance using LDAP is now supported for many LDAP providers
* New and Improved Administrative and Security Portlets
* XML Schemas for PSML, jetspeed-portlet.xml, and Jetspeed XML (seed data)
* Installation choice of either Demo Portal or Minimal Starter Portal
* New Jetspeed Tutorial
* Maven-2 build support as well as Maven-1
* Remote Portal Application Deployer - hot deploy portlet applications from remote locations on the Web
* Improved Customizers - Portal and Desktop Customizers, drag and drop moving of portlets, nested fragment customization
* New Portlet Category Selector
* XML Import/Export of all Jetspeed database data and seed data scripts for backup and restore and data migration
* Improved Security Control - fully swappable Security Constraint or Security Permission support
* Portlet-level Security checks based on Security Constraints or Security Permissions
* Improved Jetspeed AJAX API
* Improved Delegation of Security Support
* New Site Manager
* Improved Database Page Manager
* New binary installers making it very easy to setup a basic or demo Jetspeed Portal

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The release and the new binary installers are available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors through:

* http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html

The readme, installation instructions and detailed release notes:

* http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/jetspeed-2/JETSPEED-2.1-README.txt

We hope you enjoy using Jetspeed! If you have any questions, please consult:

* The web site: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/

* The jetspeed-user mailing list: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/mail-lists.html

For news and information, see:

* http://portals.apache.org/news.html

03 March 2007 - Apache Portals Bridges 1.0.1

The Apache Portals Bridges team is pleased to announce that Portals Bridges 1.0.1 has been released.

The Portals Bridges Project provides Portal independent and JSR-168 compliant Portlet components.

Bridges 1.0.1 is primarily a bug fix release but also adds a few enhancements such as a new MapServer Bridge.

Full details of this can be found in the release notes:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/release-notes.html

For more information on Portals Bridges, please visit the Bridges website:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges

Portals Bridges 1.0.1 distributions are available from:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/download.html

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-- the Apache Portals Bridges community

28 February 2007 - Apache Pluto 1.1.0 (GA) Released

The Apache Portals PMC (project management committee) is proud to announce the General Availability release of Apache Pluto 1.1.0. Apache Pluto implements a portlet container which complies with the Java Portlet Specification.

This is the first GA release of the 1.1 line of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0. Pluto 1.1 allows for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container and simpler configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a simple portal included with Pluto.

Pluto 1.1.0 fixes a number of outstanding bugs in Pluto 1.1 as well as enhancements such as the auto registration of portlet applications.

The Apache Pluto project provides the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification.

For more information or to download the release, please visit:

Website:
http://portals.apache.org/pluto

Release Notes:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12310687&styleName=Text&projectId=10560&Create=Create

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-- The Apache Portals PMC

01 June 2006 - Apache Pluto 1.1.0 beta1 Now Available

The Apache Pluto community is proud to announce the release of Pluto 1.1.0 beta1. This is the first release of the 1.1 version of Pluto, which is a major refactoring of Pluto 1.0.1. This refactoring allows for easier integration of Pluto's portlet container into a portal and easier configuration of the Pluto portal driver, a bare-bones portal included with the distribution.

Pluto is the reference implementation of the JSR-168 (Portlet 1.0) specification for a portlet container. This version of Pluto passes all TCK tests for JSR-168. Pluto 1.1 also will be the basis for the reference implementation of the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) specification now under development by the JSR-286 Expert Group.

Pluto 1.1.0-beta1 can be downloaded at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/portals/pluto/. Documentation will be found at the Apache Pluto web side at http://portals.apache.org/pluto/index.html.

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-- The Apache Pluto Community

11 December 2005 - Apache Portals Bridges 1.0 Released

The Apache Portals Project and the Portals Bridges Team are proud to announce the first general availability release of Portals Bridges 1.0.

The Portals Bridges Project provides Portal independent and JSR-168 compliant Portlet components. The released set of components supports Portlet development using common web frameworks like Struts, JSF, PHP, Perl and Velocity.

The Bridges were initially developed by the Jetspeed-2 Team and is actively used by Jetspeed-2 itself. Several other Portals are already adopting and providing support for Bridges too like Apache Cocoon Portal, JBoss Portal, GridSphere Portal and Stringbeans Portal.

Portals Bridges 1.0 distributions can be accessed from:

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/download.html

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-- The Portals Bridges Development Team

11 December 2005 - Apache Jetspeed 2.0 FINAL Released

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the final release of the Jetspeed 2.0 Open Source Enterprise Portal. This final release is fully-compliant with the Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR-168). Jetspeed-2 has passed the TCK (Test Compatibility Kit) suite and is fully CERTIFIED to the Java Portlet Standard.

The Jetspeed team will be presenting the new 2.0 release at ApacheCon US 2005 on December 10th in San Diego.

Jetspeed is a full implementation of the Java Portlet API. Notable features include security components backed by LDAP and database implementations and some robust administration interfaces. Custom portals can be built and deployed using the Jetspeed plugin for Maven. Developers can use the Jetspeed PSML language to assemble portlets and the Apache Portals Bridges project to 'bridge' portals with existing technologies including Struts, JSF, PHP, Perl. For GUI designers, Jetspeed comes with several built-in templates used to decorate portals and portlets. Join the growing community of Jetspeed users and developers at ApacheCon. David Sean Taylor will be presenting a Jetspeed tutorial that shouldn't be missed by anyone interested in the technology.

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Jetspeed 2.0 Release Notes
December 8, 2005
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Features of the Final Release Include:

Standardized:
* Fully compliant with Java Portlet API Standard 1.0 (JSR 168)
* Passed JSR-168 TCK Compatibility Test Suite
* J2EE Security based on JAAS Standard, JAAS DB Portal Security Policy
* LDAP Support for User Authentication

Foundation Component Architecture:
* Spring-based Components and Scalable Architecture
* Configurable Pipeline Request Processor
* Auto Deployment of Portlet Applications
* Jetspeed Component Java API
* Jetspeed AJAX XML API
* PSML: Extended Portlet Site Markup Language
- Database Persistent
- Content Management Facilities
- Security Constraints

Portal Core Features:
* Declarative Security Constraints and JAAS Database Security Policy
* Runtime Portlet API Standard Role-based Security
* Portal Content Management and Navigations: Pages, Menus, Folders, Links
* Multithreaded Aggregation Engine
* PSML Folder CMS Navigations, Menus, Links
* Jetspeed SSO (Single Sign-on)
* Rules-based Profiler for page and resource location
* Integrates with most popular databases including
- Derby, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres, DB2
* Client independent capability engine (HTML, XHTML, WML, VML)
* Internationalization: Localized Portal Resources in 12 Languages
* Statistics Logging Engine
* Portlet Registry
* Full Text Search of Portlet Resources with Lucene
* User Registration
* Forgotten Password
* Rich Login and Password Configuration Management

Administrative Portlets:
* User, Role, Group, Password, and Profile Management
* JSR 168 Generic User Attributes Editor
- JSR 168 Preferences Editor
- Site Manager
- SSO Manager
- Portlet Application and Lifecycle Management
- Profiler Administration
- Statistics Reports

Web Framework Support and Sample Portlets:
* Bridges to other Web Frameworks
- JSF, Struts, PHP, Perl, Velocity
* Sample Portlets
- RSS, IFrame, Calendar XSLT, Bookmark, Database Browser
- Integration with Display Tags, Spring MVC

Customization Features:
* Administrative Site Manager
* Page Customizer

Portal Design Features:
* Deployment Jetspeed Portlet and Page Skins (Decorators) CSS Components
* Configurable CSS Page Layouts
* Easy to Use Velocity Macro Language for Skin and Layout Components

Development Tools
* Automated Maven Build
* Jetspeed-2 Maven Plugin for Custom Portal Development
* AutoDeployment of Portlet Applications, Portal Resources
* Deployment Tools
* Plugin Goals integrated with Auto Deployment Feature

Application Servers Supported:
* Tomcat 5.0.x
* Tomcat 5.5.x
* Websphere 5.1, 6.0
* JBoss

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The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html

We hope you enjoy using Jetspeed! If you have any questions, please consult:

* The web site: http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/

* The jetspeed-user mailing list:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/mail-lists.html

For news and information, see:

* http://portals.apache.org/news.html

20 October 2005 - Apache Pluto 1.0.1 Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the first general availability release of Apache Pluto - pluto 1.0.1. Pluto is the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168).

Pluto 1.0.1 contains fixes for nearly all reported bugs reported against the various release candidates. It also includes support for the hot deployment of Portlets which are deployed through the Administrative portlets provided with the Portal Driver.

Pluto 1.0.1 distributions can be accessed from:

http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi

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-- The Apache Pluto Development Team

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09 August 2005 - Apache Pluto version 1.0.1 RC4 Now Available

The Apache Portals Project and the Apache Pluto Team are proud to announce the immediate availability of Apache Pluto version 1.0.1 RC4. Pluto is the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168). This release is intended to resolve issues related to the rc3 distribution as well as many bug fixes.

Downloads are available through:

http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi

Regards,

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-- The Apache Pluto Team

28 July 2005 - Apache Portals Bridges Created

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team and the Apache Portals Project are pleased to announce the graduation of their Portals Bridges subproject to a new independent Portals Bridges project which now is available at: http://portals.apache.org/bridges

The Portals Bridges Project provides support for Portal independent and JSR-168 compliant Portlet development using common web frameworks like Struts, JSF, PHP, Perl and Velocity.

These bridges have been in development for over a year by the Jetspeed-2 Team and is actively used by Jetspeed-2 itself and some already have been adopted by other portals like the JBoss Portal and Stringbeans Portal as well.

14 July 2005 - Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc3 Now Available

The Apache Software Foundation and the The Apache Pluto Project are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pluto 1.0.1-rc3. This is the third and final release candidate of the Pluto 1.0.1.

The release may be downloaded through:
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi

Pluto is a subproject of the Apache Portals project. Pluto is the reference implementation of the Java Portlet specification (JSR-168) and serves as a portlet container. A portlet container manages the lifecycle and request processing of compliant portlets. In order to ease testing and experimentation, the Pluto container has been released with a sample portal driver and utility portlets.

For more information concerning Apache Pluto, please see:
http://portals.apache.org/pluto

Version 1.0.1-rc3 of Pluto is principally a bug fix release. In addition it does include several administrative enhancements, including administrative portlets for managing the deployment of compliant portlet applications.

Detailed bug fixes and enhancements can be viewed at:

http://portals.apache.org/pluto/changes-report.html

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-- The Apache Pluto Development Team

27 May 2005 - Apache Portals Jetspeed 1.6 Released

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the final release of Jetspeed 1.6.

Jetspeed is an Enterprise Information Portal framework aiming to provide:

• an efficient multi-device user customizable portal interface
• a full implementation of the Java Portlet API used for developing customizable components that can be integrated into any compatible portal

The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/portals/jetspeed-1/

The binaries are distributed in two packages:

1. Jetspeed 1.6 without JSR-168 support


2. Jetspeed 1.6 with JSR-168 support (Fusion)

Two binary releases of Jetspeed 1.6 Fusion come prepackaged with Tomcat:

1. Jetspeed-Fusion 1.6 + Tomcat 5.0.30 distribution.


2. Jetspeed-Fusion 1.6 + Tomcat 5.5.9 distribution.

For more information, see the Apache Portals Jetspeed Website.

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-- The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team

27 May 2005 - Apache Portals Jetspeed 2.0 M3 (Milestone Release Third) Now Available

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the third milestone release of Jetspeed-2.

Jetspeed is an Enterprise Information Portal framework aiming to provide:

• an efficient multi-device user customizable portal interface
• a full implementation of the Java Portlet API used for developing customizable components that can be integrated into any compatible portal

The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/portals/jetspeed-2/

Two binary releases are provided.

1. Jetspeed-2 + Tomcat 5.0.30 distribution.


2. Jetspeed-2 + Tomcat 5.5.9 distribution.

For more information, see the Apache Portals Jetspeed Website.

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-- The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team

05 April 2005 - Apache Jetspeed 2.0 M2 (Milestone Release Second) Released

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the second milestone release of Jetspeed-2.

The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/portals/jetspeed-2/

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-- The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team

11 January 2005 - Graffito (ex JCMS) has entered Apache Incubator

Graffito team and the Apache Portals PMC announced that Graffito, formerly known as JCMS, had completed its transition to the Apache Incubator.

The main objective of Graffito is to create a portal oriented content management system. It's currently build on top of Apache Slide and the team also plans to support access to JCR content repositories through Jackrabbit. Graffito user interface is managed with a set of JSR-168 portlets that can be deployed in compatible portal systems such as Apache Jetspeed.

If you are interested to learn more on Graffito, please consult the project website at:

http://incubator.apache.org/graffito/

To join the user and developer community, please subscribe to graffito-dev@incubator.apache.org by sending a mail to grrafito-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org

To checkout the current codebase, you can download it through our Subversion repository:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/graffito/trunk/

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Apache Portals - Enterprise Portal in Java http://portals.apache.org/

22 December 2004 - Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc2 Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release of Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc-2: the second binary release of the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.

Community feedback will decide if a further release candidate is required before a final release.

The Java Portlet Specification defines a Portlet API very similar to the Servlet API. The API provides a means for aggregating disperate content sources. The specification addresses security and personalization considerations and defines a standard with which these sources, or portlets can be deployed.

Apache Pluto is an embedable portlet container which will typically be bundled within a fully functional Portal. The Pluto community has developed a simple portal driver implementation which allows for the testing and development of portlets with the container. The Pluto testsuite is an implementation agnostic portlet application which tests several basic operations of the container in which it is deployed.

The distribution is organized into four releases:

1. A binary distribution bundled with Tomcat. This distribution is the easiest to install.


2. A source distribution.


3. A binary distribution containing the container library.


4. A binary tools distribution with the portal driver and testsuite.

Downloads:

http://portals.apache.org/pluto/mirrors.cgi

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-- The Apache Pluto Community

05 December 2004 - Apache Portals Jetspeed 2.0 Milestone release 1 Now Available

The Apache Portals community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Jetspeed 2.0 M1 (Milestone release 1).

This is our first milestone release and brings Jetspeed closer to a final 2.0 release.

Feedbacks are greatly appreciated, especially in the form of bug reports.

You can download Jetspeed 2.0 M1 from:

http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/jetspeed-2/

Release notes and installation instructions are at:

http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/jetspeed-2/JETSPEED-2.0-M1-README.txt

The Jetspeed Project Wiki and Home pages can be found here:

http://wiki.apache.org/portals/Jetspeed2

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/

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-- The Apache Portals Community (Apache Jetspeed-2 Project)

08 October 2004 - Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc1 Released

The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release of Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1: the first binary release of the reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.

Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1 is considered a release candidate. The promotion of this release candidate to general availability is expected within the few weeks, pending feedback from the community.

The Java Portlet Specification defines a Portlet API very similar to the Servlet API. The API provides means for aggregating disperate content sources. The specification addresses security and personalization considerations and defines a standard with which these sources, or portlets can be deployed.

Pluto is an embedable portlet container which will typically be bundled within a fully functional Portal. The Pluto community has developed a simple portal driver implementation which allows for the testing and development of portlets with the container. The Pluto testsuite is an implementation agnostic portlet application which tests several basic operations of the container in which it is deployed.

The distribution is organized into four releases:

1. A binary distribution bundled with Tomcat. This distribution is the easiest to install.


2. A source distribution.


3. A binary distribution containing the container library.


4. A binary tools distribution with the portal driver and testsuite.

Thanks for using Pluto.

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23 April 2004 - Apache Jetspeed 1.5 Released

The Apache Jetspeed development team has released the latest version of the Jetspeed Portal Server, version 1.5.

* New Features *

• Jetspeed becomes a part of the Apache Portals project http://portals.apache.org/
• Build converted to Maven. Ant build deprecated.
• Security refactored to allow assigning roles within groups
• Jetspeed 1.5 Tutorial moved off of Bluesunrise and converted to Maven documentation format.
• Jetspeed Maven Plugin for creating and working with Jetspeed-based projects
• Jetspeed site converted to use Maven, and moved to http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-1/
• Email Portlet
• Redirect Portlet
• Enhanced portlet filtering on the layout customizer
• New skins and updated look and feel of the default portal
• Portlets and decorators (controls) can now be completely hidden if user doesn't have secure access to the portlet.
• GenericMVC portlet now can render in parallel with other portlets on the same page
• Added filtering on portlet registry browser
• Drag and drop controller for the layout designer
• Upgrade to Torque 3.1 and Torque Plugin

Downloads:

BINARY: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
SOURCE: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sourceindex.cgi

Apache Jetspeed Team

27 March 2004 - Opened Apache Portals Website

Apache Portals now has its own Website in apache.org domain name.

http://portals.apache.org/

See Apache Portals website for more details.

01 March 2004 - The ASF established two new PMCs - Portals and Gump

The Board of the ASF (The Apache Software Foundation) established two new PMCs

• The Apache Gump Project will now oversee the development and maintenance of the Apache Jakarta Gump project. Stefan Bodewig is the new Chair of this PMC.
• The Apache Portals Project will be pulling together a number of different ASF technologies that are used to create portals (Jetspeed, Pluto, etc.). Santiago Gala is the new project Chair.