Why is JB Portal gone? Is GateIn Portal really the replacement?

[dgodbey]

Not too long ago my group evaluated a number of open source portal products for a customer. We evaluated JBP, Liferay, and Exo. We didn't like Exo much, and we spent most of our time with Liferay and JBP.

While Liferay was slick looking and did many of the things our customer wanted, it did not do EVERYTHING our customer wanted. Since the customer wanted everything that they wanted, we chose JBP for ease of customization and integration with other products.

No sooner did we get out of the gate (pun intended) customizing JBP for the customer, we learned that 2.7.2 was the end of the road for JBoss Portal, and that GateIn products were the future for JBoss portal products.

Unfortunately, in our view, GateIn Portal comes up short compared to Liferay (it is the same kind of product, shiny and self-contained). But then there is the Portlet Container.

Our interest is in the portal toolkit, as JBP appears to be. Perhaps the GateIn Portlet Container product will fit the bill, but it is not nearly as functional as JBP was, and it looks as though the activity is with GateIn Portal right now.

What happened? Are there discussions or threads where I might catch up with the JBP history and its giving way to GateIn?

Dave

PS I also posted on the testimonial/discussion board, but the activity there seems to be negligible, so I posted here

[tnguyen_75]

I'm trying to use GateIn Portal for my project. Do you know of a link that shows how1e to develop JBoss portlet and deploy it to GateIn?

Thanks,

Tuan

[claprun]

Saw this again just now… Sorry for the late reply!

What exactly are you missing that was present in JBoss Portal but is not anymore in GateIn? Maybe there are alternative solutions to the issues you're facing?

[dgodbey]

Thanks for replying, but you are way too late to make a difference. Wrt to the content of your reply: are you kidding? The differences in developing around JBoss portal compared to GateIn are huge. The JBP as a portal framework worked well for us. The process of integrating external components, such as external login systems, was well thought out in JBP. Exo as a portal product we rejected very early in the selection process. Ultimately it got down to a choice between JBP and Liferay. Once we learned that JBP was dead, well, that pushed us right into the Liferay camp. Liferay is ok, but I do miss JBP.

[dgodbey]

No, not GateIn, but we could possibly help you going from JBP to Liferay.

[claprun]

Sorry to hear about that. However, it'd be interesting to learn in greater details what you'd change/improve in GateIn to make up for the things you miss from JBP.

[monsieursanta]

@Tuan were you able to develop a JBoss portlet and deploy the same in GateIn

[tnguyen_75]

Santhosh - No. I was not able to develop a JBoss portlet and deploy the same in GateIn. I stopped working on that project.