Rendering vector graphics would definitely be an interesting feature for me concerning the portal.

From my knowlegde of laszlo, is that they are currently targetting the flash format - streaming out binary content from a servlet. I'm not sure, but wouldn't it be possible to wrap the stream with PortletContext.getNamedDispatcher and set the portlet's response type to swf?

"mkural" wrote:
I think so. Well, it must be possible so that IBM and Liferay are able to make portlets that use Laszlo, hence Flash in them. Here is the screenshot of a HelloWorld Laszlo portlet running in Liferay Portal:
http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/community/forums/attachment.php?s=cb9d97125b67b3fe848700de22c1f720&postid=5607

I implement a simple IFrame portlet in my own site which is based on jbp2.0 branch.


http://www.mobmeee.com/index.html?ctrl:id=window.default.IFramePortletWindow&ctrl:type=render&iframemessage=http://www.roamingsms.com

You can modify the value of iframemessage value to other URL to display other website.

e.g.
http://www.mobmeee.com/index.html?ctrl:id=window.default.IFramePortletWindow&ctrl:type=render&iframemessage=http://www.jboss.com

regards
yang

Hello mkural,

the faces + laszlo integration seems powerfull.

we will migrate our portlets to JSF (except the forum which has a specific interface non based on widgets) so if the faces + JSF integration works I think it is a good idea to use it to provide a richer UI.

beside that for now, I don't see what JBoss Portal must implement specifically in order to enable laszlo portlets to run with it.

"mkural" wrote:
Hello Roy,

<<They're using an IFrame portlet to insert the content. This is possible *now* with JBoss Portal. You just need the IFrame portlet and you can call any cgi, laszlo widget, flash movie, coldfusion application, etc...>>

Yeah I noticed that later. Well, that is just that screenshot though, which was posted by some Liferay user on the forum. Since it is IFrame it's not a significant screenshot. But Liferay's lead developer Brian Chan has been building real Laszlo-based portlets for Liferay Portal for half a year. Please check here:
http://forums.liferay.com/index.php?showtopic=840&st=0&#entry2640

Also IBM built Faces for Laszlo which enables you to put JSF components that emit Laszlo GUI components. You can read more about Faces for Laszlo here:
http://dl.alphaworks.ibm.com/technologies/faces4laszlo/faces4laszlo_whitepaper.pdf

Does JBoss Portal have any roadmap in terms of Laszlo?

Thanks,
Mete