[JBoss Portal] - Re: JBoss Portal vs its competitors
by jimisola
I found the following information about Alfresco and its JSR-168 support:
http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/04/15/alfresco-architecture:
anonymous wrote :
| 7. JSR-168 Portal Components
|
| Alfresco supports JSR-168 portals that can be used in JBoss Portal, eXo Portal, any other JSR-168 compatible portal. It includes many different pre-packaged portlets including: browsing, space creation, uploading, versions, properties, collaboration, in-line editing, etc.
|
and in a very old blog post
anonymous wrote :
| Alfresco developed the system using the latest Java technologies, including JBoss Application Server 4.0, JBoss Portal 2.0, Spring 1.2, Hibernate 3.0, MyFaces 1.0, Lucene 1.4 and Java 1.5.
|
Alfresco obviously has good support JSR-168 (different portlets available).
However, another blog posts says that is uses "JBoss AS and JBoss Portal" which confuses everything.
As I understood it Alfresco can either run stand-alone using e.g. JBoss AS or integrate with JBoss Portal using JSR-168 portlets. Is there more to the integration with JBoss Portal than portlets, e.g. to act as a replacement JCR repository for JBoss Portal?
Regards,
Jimisola
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[JBoss Portal] - JBoss Portal vs its competitors
by jimisola
Hi,
I hope this topic will be accepted here as I believe many potential users are in the same situation as myself - what Portal should I use?
My question is simple: why I should pick JBoss Portal and not one of its competitors such as Liferay, uPortal, Unify etc?
Things we plan to use are:
(important)
Content Management - CMS
User Management
Discussion Forums
Calendar / Event Schedule
Article / News Management
Links / Directory
Download / Document Manager (DMS)
Image / Photo Gallery
Knowledgebase / FAQ
Contacts / Staff Directory
Mail (web-based)
(less important)
Newsletter Management
Messaging and Chat
Business Directory / Listings
Projects / Task Manager
Surveys / Polls
I've focused on JBoss Portal and Liferay and they both have their pros and cons. Liferay's UI seems a bit more intuitive with its drag-n-drop support etc, it does not require a specific Application Server (JBoss Portal does) and it seem to have better Alfresco support.
I found this comparison of the two:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/05/77788_19TCportals_1.html
To what extend is it still valid? There have been released after this was made.
I'm also interested in finding out more about the Alfresco support as it seems to differ between the two ("Liferay came up with Alfresco portlets and JBoss came up with the tie-up with Alfresco", see http://portlets.blogspot.com/2006/05/content-management-portals.html).
I read another blog post on JBoss Portal and Alfresco:
http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2006/05/24/684
and made special notice to
anonymous wrote : What I was hoping for was that Alfresco would be configured as the replacement JCR repository for JBoss Portal and that there would be a set of useful portlets that exposed the Alfresco repository to portal users. At a bare minimum I would have expected an Alfresco search portlet and a trimmed down ?spaces? portlet.
What is your opinion on this matter (replacement of JCR repository)?
Regards,
Jimisola
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[JBoss Portal] - Re: Needed functionality (requirements)
by jimisola
"thomas.heute(a)jboss.com" wrote :
| You should look at:
| - The portal features detailed in the doc
| - The portletswap.com website
| - Google for specific portlets (JSR-168)
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I'm going to go through the documentation for 2.6 again now that I know a bit more - didn't crasp everything first time around obviously. As for portletswap.com and googling, those options have been used.
"thomas.heute(a)jboss.com" wrote :
| That said:
| - There is no webdav support yet, anyone willing to look into that area ? I think Jackrabbit does support Webdav and we are using Jackrabbit already
| - News/blog: it is being implemented by a team of students, no release yet. If you are willing to help them let me know, i can put you in contact.
| - Picture gallery, i've seen a portlet to display pictures from flicker, i can't find the link right now
| - Adress book/contact list, we have (had?) something very basic, probably not something very useful
| - Forum: yes, it looks like this forum, it's a portlet though: http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbossforums/
| - CMS portlet, that's what we have. It comes with the portal
| - Web mail, i don't have anything (it doesn't mean it doesn't exist)
| - User management, yes, embedded.
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news/blog: I currently don't have time get actively involved in a/another open source project, but I'd would definitely like to have a look at what they got. Where can I find it? Is it the jboss_newsportlet available at portletswap or a different one?
address book: there are two address book / contacts portlets at portlet swap, but neither one of them have had any updates for almost twelve (12) months so I'll continue to look around.
forum: JBoss Forums is a nice phpBB clone. Does it have anything in common with JForum (which also is a Javabased phpBB clone)? It's feature list looks quite complete. Since I know phpBB it would be interesting to know if you know about any major differences between the two. I am especially interested in 1) PM (private messages) (not mentioned in the feature list, but there is an icon in the forum which, however, links to jboss.com) and 2) "Fine grained security" and whether it means that non-privileged users won't even be able to see topics and "Last Post" information. Looks as the same requirements that a user mentioned is this thread:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=98930
CMS Portlet: I felt that the CMS portlet was not intuitive enough to just start with and I also managed to cause it throw an exception :)
My goal is to migrate an existing JSP site to a CMS solution.
User Management: though there was support for hierarchical role/group management, but I got to know that J2EE does not specify hierarchical support and it was not a hard requirement anyway.
Regards,
Jimisola
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