The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce version 2.2.1 of the Jetspeed-2 Open Source Enterprise Portal.

Release 2.2.1 continues Jetspeed's full compliance of the Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR-286), passing the Portlet 2.0 TCK (Test Compatibility Kit) suite and is fully CERTIFIED to the Java Portlet Standard.

This release introduces the Jetui client-side customization engine, as well as advanced page templating support and improvements.

Highlights of new features are:
* Jetui Client Side Customization Engine
* Drag and Drop Support of portlets
* Jetspeed Toolbox dockable portlet selector, layout selector, and skin selector
* Dockable Jetspeed Navigator to navigate over spaces, maintenance over pages, folders, links
* Jetspeed Spaces, secured areas of the portal site for workgroups and projects
* JAX RS Services for Portal Customization and Registry manipulations
* Open ID Support
* Preview Portlet Mode from Jetspeed Toolbox
* Improved LDAP synchronization, authentication, and maintenance of LDAP credentials
* CAS Authentication
* Dynamic PSML - dynamically overlay external site maps such as other web sites or content repositories onto the Jetspeed site map to dynamically navigate of external content within portal
* PSML Templates - templacized, secured pages that overlay over URL addressable pages to merge template-portlets such as toolbox and navigator into a single page
* Fragment References - also known as Portlet Instances - allow for referencing preconfigured portlets with preferences from a standard page
* Improved Portlet API 2.0 Support and Compliance
* Improved Installer to support two kinds of installations (min, demo)
* New User Manager supporting true paging over large user databases

For a full overview of all the features, online documentation and tutorial or to download the release including a binary installer which comes with a bundled Tomcat 6, please visit:

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

Features:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/features.html

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

Installer:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/getting-started-installer.html

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

The Apache Portals team is proud to announce the major release of a suite of new Portal projects, all aligned to the new Portlet API 2.0 specification (JSR-286):

• Version 2.2.0 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal
• Version 2.0.0 of the Pluto Container
• Version 1.0 of several new Portals Applications

More information about the Apache Portals Project itself and its projects can be found here:

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

Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in open source to the Java Portlet API standard under the Apache license. Version 2.2.0 is a major update from the 2.1.3 release.
New Features and improvements in Version 2.2.0:

• Portlet API 2.0 Support and Compliance
• Inter-Portlet Communication via Events
• New High Speed Preferences Database Storage
• New Extensible Security Model with LDAP Synchronization
• Improved Documentation including 5 New Guides (Users Guide, Admin Guide, Developers Guide, Build Guide, Deploy Guide)
• New Improved Administrative Portlets
• New Skins
• New Maven-2 Custom Build
• Improved integration support for popular web development frameworks like Wicket, Spring MVC, JSF, and Struts

Full details can be found in the Jetspeed 2.2.0 release notes:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/release-notes.html

A demo of Jetspeed is running live at Apache Zones. Login with username/password admin/j2:
http://portals.zones.apache.org/jetspeed/portal/
http://portals.zones.apache.org/jetspeed/desktop/

Pluto Container is the Reference Implementation of th Java Portlet Specifications 1.0 and 2.0.
Pluto 2.0.0 is fully compliant with the latest 2.0 specification, also known as JSR-286, as well as the 1.0 specification, known as JSR-168.

Full details can be found in the Pluto 2.0.0 release notes:
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v20/release-notes.html

Apache Portals Applications (APA) is a new collaborative software development project existing under the Apache Portals project. APA is dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available Portlet Applications under the Apache license developed at the Apache Software Foundation. The APA project releases 1.0 versions of the following Portlet Applications and components, all targetted at the Portlet Specification 2.0 (JR-286):

• Gems - A collection of reusable portlets including Flash, Google Maps, File, Event and Browser portlets.
• Database Browser - A portlet application dedicated to the development and database portlet development including scrollable lists and data entry forms
• Demo - A portlet application dedicated to learning Java and Groovy portlet programming and tutorials, as well as some helpful weather and bookmark portlets
• RSS - A portlet application dedicated to the development of RSS portlet features
• Web Content - A portlet application dedicated to the development of Web Content rewriting and IFrame based web content.
• Logging - Apache Portals Applications Logging, (APA Logging), is a utility library used to setup and deploy logging to portlet applications

Source and binary distributions, including standard and full demo installers for Jetspeed-2 Portal, are available from:

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

Validating the release

The release has been signed by Vivek Kumar, Carsten Ziegeler, and David Taylor, the release managers for this release. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the download
area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.

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

Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity

Reporting Issues

In case you encounter an issue, we would appreciate if you can report it through our issue tracking system:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PLUTO
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APA

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

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

David Sean Taylor
On behalf of the Apache Portals Team