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:
David Sean Taylor
On behalf of the Apache Portals Team
The Apache Software Foundation
