some general and entry level questions about Jboss portal

[legolas.w]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post.
I have some general and entry level questions about Jboss Portal which i hope you help me to know the answers

1-Does this portal works on tomcat ?
2-can we deploy a jsr-168 standard portlet which works inside pluto on Jboss portal ?
3-how is localization in jboss portal ?
-is there RTL and LRT support in portal system ? it means that for example :
I localize it to Hebrew which is RTL , and then will it show texts from right to left and also will it decorate portlets right to left?
is there any key in its resource bundle to determine the language direction?
-is it possible to change the locale on-demand ? in jetspeed we have drop down box to select language
in StringBeans there is language bar with each locale flag.. , what is jboss portal facility in this issue ?
4-can the portal be configured to:
1-show an specefic home page fot not logged in users
2-show specefic home page to users which are logged in based on thier role ?
5-what portlets are shipped with jboss portal ?
6-is it completely them able ?
7-is it jsr-168 TCK passed ?


Thank you

[davinchi]

Hi ,
Following things I have tried out :

2- yes of course
4 -1 yes
2 - yes
5 - a no of them In fact if you open http://localhost:8080/portal all views on the page are portlets
from portletswap.com also you can download a no of portlets

6. ?what does the question mean?

Hope this helps
Dvinci

[legolas.w]

"davinchi" wrote:
Hi ,



6. ?what does the question mean?

Hope this helps
Dvinci

I mean does it support plug able look and feel like Liferay portal ?

another question : does it support Captcha (image authentication) ?
how about ajax ?

[roy.russo]

1. It only works on JBoss AS... for now.
3. Use resource bundles. CMS localization is covered in the user guide: http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.2/user-guide/en/html/cmsPortlet.html#d0e1358
7. Yes.

6. Themes: Novell developed the Theme/Layout API and it is thoroughly documented: http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.2/reference-guide/en/html/themeandlayouts.html

You can hotdeploy themes/layouts, and assign them to individual pages or even portal instances. Creating a new theme is simpler than in any other portal. Have a look for yourself at a sample here: http://labs.jboss.com/portal/index.html?ctrl:id=page.default.downloads&project=portletswap&category=.layouts.2_2

All it is, is a .war with css/images and a very small descriptor to tell the portal that its a theme.

Thanks to Davinichi for the answers. ;-)