new jetspeed user

[Amir Nashat <an...@cj.com>]

Hello all,
 
I just downloaded the jetspeed portal, installed and started playing. All is going well.
 
A couple questions come to mind
 
1)       Is Jetspeed a portlet container? Granted not a reference implementation but I'm curious as to the .war extension. Are containers nothing more then war files  and thus a web app? I've read the spec front to back and still are not sure about this one. If someone can point to the section I'd be very much obliged.
2)       So I haven't tied Jetspeed into any backend database. I then create a new user. I then create another new user with the same user name and it chokes on me saying that this user already exists. 
      How is this user data persisted in the first place if I have no data store to save it in? I'm curious about this one. Doing a little search I noticed that data is saved into the jetspeed.script file. So when jetspeed
      starts is this file read and a in-memory object created that stores all the users? Is this assumption correct? Anyone?
 
 
 
Thanks for your help everyone.
 
Regards,
 
Amir
 
 
 
 
Amir N. Nashat
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