Should I use jetspeed?

[Anat Rozenzon <an...@telrad.co.il>]

hi all,
 
I'm supposed to create a web application which will be used as web-services
portal.
It should include some kind of portal for users where they see their
available web services as well as personal administration screen for each
user and some higher administration screens for admins of groups. So, it
should also include quite a complicated groups management where the
application admin can define a group and a group admin and the group admin
should be able to manage the users in his group.
Also, at least some of the portlets should be quite complicated, really a
whole application that should access databases, network, transactions,
messaging and more. I thought of using ejb for the logic/db stuff.
 
So what I really am asking is whether jetspeed is able to be used as a
portal of applications, using ejb/jdbc/? 
Should I treat portlet as a small servlet meaning I can use it to access ejb
or is it too complicated for such things?
I know that jetspeed is in alpha status but I want to know in terms of 2-3
months ahead.
 
Thanks for any response
Anat
 
Anat Rozenzon
Telrad Networks
Anat.rozenzon@telrad.co.il <ma...@telrad.co.il> 
 

RE: Should I use jetspeed?

[David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>]

There are commercial products available, included IBM Websphere which is
based on Jetspeed.
If you would like to become more involved in open source, and would like to
have more control over the features and direction of your portal, then
Jetspeed is a good choice for you.

> as web-services
> portal.

web services + jetspeed -- there is an example at the JavaWorld site
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2001/jw-0727-jetspeed.html

> So what I really am asking is whether jetspeed is able to be used as a
> portal of applications, using ejb/jdbc/?

Of course you can use EJB or JDBC from a portlet. Why not? Portlets are just
Java code.

> Should I treat portlet as a small servlet meaning I can use
> it to access ejb
> or is it too complicated for such things?

Its not a servlet. You can use portlets to access EJB or beans or other web
services via XML, really its up to you.
A Portlet is a way to interface with other applications in a common
interface. The key is they can be easily customized and personalized to meet
the end-user and business requirements in addition to being centrally
administered.  Portlets should support displaying themselves in multiple
formats, such as WML, HTML, and adapt to other runtime parameters such as
browser types and languages, country codes, location. We have also defined a
portlet API. So a portlet is class that implements the Portlet interface.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anat Rozenzon [mailto:anat.rozenzon@telrad.co.il]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:10 AM
> To: Jetspeed User (E-mail)
> Subject: Should I use jetspeed?
>
>
> hi all,
>
> I'm supposed to create a web application which will be used
> as web-services
> portal.
> It should include some kind of portal for users where they see their
> available web services as well as personal administration
> screen for each
> user and some higher administration screens for admins of
> groups. So, it
> should also include quite a complicated groups management where the
> application admin can define a group and a group admin and
> the group admin
> should be able to manage the users in his group.
> Also, at least some of the portlets should be quite
> complicated, really a
> whole application that should access databases, network, transactions,
> messaging and more. I thought of using ejb for the logic/db stuff.
>
> So what I really am asking is whether jetspeed is able to be used as a
> portal of applications, using ejb/jdbc/?
> Should I treat portlet as a small servlet meaning I can use
> it to access ejb
> or is it too complicated for such things?
> I know that jetspeed is in alpha status but I want to know in
> terms of 2-3
> months ahead.
>
> Thanks for any response
> Anat
>
> Anat Rozenzon
> Telrad Networks
> Anat.rozenzon@telrad.co.il <ma...@telrad.co.il>
>
>



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