Portal goal?

[lnuxguy]

I'm researching deploying a portal for several hundred users to log into and access various content. I would LOVE to use Jboss Portal, since it's a EJB-based solution, but I'm having trouble understanding what it is supposed to provide.

I understand the concept of a framework, and have used several in the past (i.e. Zope). Zope is an Application Server only. There's "portal" addons (i.e. Plone) that provide portal functionality and quick site creation. Other portal products (Sharepoint Portal Server) basically give you the same thing (quick site creation).

JBoss Portal has it's (distant) roots based on PHPNuke, so you'd think that getting a site running with basic content would be pretty painless? What I see when I get it running is a bare-bones site, with no apparent way to add more content, etc... Lots of docs on installing it, but very little on actually how to use it?

Am I missing something here? If this is supposed to be a portal, then why provide just a framework? If it's a framework, then why call it a portal?

[dn]

excellent observation lnuxguy!

I wonder why anyone haven't posted yet?

[roy.russo]

Chapter 6 of the user guide describes how to manage content in Portal 2.0. Read: http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.0Final/user-guide/en/html/index.html

Read the Feature List to see what is provided in the distro. Read:
http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.0Final/user-guide/en/html/features.html

[lnuxguy]

In the 2.2 release, will more portlets be included with the portal? What is the release date for 2.2?

Are there any examples of people using this as a full-fledged portal? The few examples I see are people serving up a few static pages...

[roy.russo]

We will probably not bundle any additional portlets aside from those used to manage the portal and its components.

Release date for 2.2RC is Dec 7. Final is Late Dec to early Jan... due to Holidays.

The marketing team is working on case studies of live portals and enterprise clients.