svn commit: rev 54114 - portals/site/xdocs

[dd...@apache.org]

Author: ddewolf
Date: Fri Oct  8 13:38:33 2004
New Revision: 54114

Modified:
   portals/site/xdocs/news.xml
Log:
Adding the announcement of the pluto release.

Modified: portals/site/xdocs/news.xml
==============================================================================
--- portals/site/xdocs/news.xml	(original)
+++ portals/site/xdocs/news.xml	Fri Oct  8 13:38:33 2004
@@ -10,6 +10,64 @@
 
 <section name="News">
 
+<h4>8 October 2004 - Portals Pluto 1.0.1-rc1 Released</h4>
+<p>
+  The Apache Pluto Community is proud to announce the release
+  of Apache Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1: the first binary release of the
+  reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  Pluto 1.0.1-rc-1 is considered a release candidate.  The
+  promotion of this release candidate to general availability
+  is expected within the few weeks, pending feedback from 
+  the community.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  The Java Portlet Specification defines a Portlet API
+  very similar to the Servlet API. The API provides a means
+  for aggregating disperate content sources.  The specification
+  addresses security and personalization considerations and 
+  defines a standard with which these sources, or portlets 
+  can be deployed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  Pluto is an embedable portlet container which will typically
+  be bundled within a fully functional Portal.  The Pluto 
+  community has developed a simple portal driver implementation
+  which allows for the testing and development of portlets with
+  the container.  The Pluto testsuite is an implementation 
+  agnostic portlet application which tests several basic
+  operations of the container in which it is deployed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+  The distribution is organized into four releases:
+<ul>
+<li>
+ 1. A binary distribution bundled with Tomcat. This distribution is the easiest to install.
+</li>
+  
+<li>
+  2. A source distribution.
+</li>
+  
+<li>
+  3. A binary distribution containing the container library.
+</li>
+  
+<li>
+  4. A binary tools distribution with the portal driver and 
+     testsuite.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+
+
+
 <h4>22 April 2004 - Jakarta Jetspeed 1.5 Released</h4>
 <p>
 * New Features *