absence

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

Team,

Im sorry for my unexcused absence.
Been finishing off a book for Manning (Portlets in Action) and the last 
10 days have been basically write, eat, write, write, sleep, write ...
Also had a project deadline mixed in there

In the book, I wrote about Graffito
I had limited time, and I followed a pattern I used on my project:

* override the Graffito interfaces that I needed
* don't use the pluggable persistence architecture
   (i found this too complicated for my time alloted)

Not perfect, but at least we are now going to be in print soon

So I overrode:

ContentModel - store content on file system + relational DB for metadata
ContentSearch - integrated with Lucene, worked great
ContentServer - provide Graffito normalized URI

I *know* this didn't follow our architecture completely, but at least I 
got back to using Graffito again.

 From it, I developed 3 portlets:

1. CMS Tree Browser
2. CMS Document Viewer
3. CMS Search Portlet

I need to decouple these from my specific implementation
The coupling is very very low, they look for specific properties from 
document.getProperty such as hitrate on a search.
Hope to contribute soon

Also, saw that Christophe is writing similar portlets with Velocity
I really prefer Velocity, so thats great
My portlets used JSP because the tree view browser was integral, and I 
was working with Jeremy and he wrote the Jetspeed-2 tree browser so we 
went with that. Actuallly it looks very nice, and now supports lazy 
loading which i think is essential for browsing over large CMSs

So thats my status
Hope to start contributing by next week and can't wait to try out 
Christophe's new portlets


-- 
David Sean Taylor
Bluesunrise Software
david@bluesunrise.com
[office] +01 707 773-4646
[mobile] +01 707 529 9194

Demo site ?

[Raphaël Luta <ra...@apache.org>]

Guys,

Can any of you set up a public test/demo site of J2 + Graffito somewhere
on the Web ?
I guess it would help for potential users / developers that simply want
to seee what's possible right now without the hassle of setting up a whole
Tomcat + J2 + Graffito system.

If none of you can do it, I'll see if I can set up a server but it's likely
not to be possible before a few weeks.

-- 
Raphael Luta - raphael@apache.org
Apache Jetspeed - Enterprise Portal in Java
http://portals.apache.org/