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Sun's Open-Sourcing of Java System Portal Server : Game On!

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posted Saturday, 28 October 2006
At JavaOne 2006 Sun announced that it would initiate the open- sourcing of the Sun Java System Portal Server.  Sun's Portal Server has been very successful and is used in a number of settings - Athens Internation Airport, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Raytheon, Telekom Malasyia and Telus Mobility to name just a few reference sites. You can see what Sun is doing toward open-sourcing the Portal Server by reading the articles, Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 1: Overview and Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 2 : Portlet Repository.  Sun has launched a Portal Open Source Project on java.net.  Incidentally, the open-source portlet repository can also be found at java.net.  The idea of the portlet repository is to stimulate the development of freee portlets and  facilitate the open exchange Portal Server
of portlets.  There are already four portlets available : a bookmark portlet for managing bookmarks online, a notepad portlet, an RSS portlet that displays syndicated content feeds and a showtime portlet comparing time in different time zones.  In work are four others - AJAX portlet, Blog portlet, mashup portlet and JWchat portlet.  There are other commercial portlets which you can find at the Portal Solutions Showcase. You can use NetBeans in conjunction with Maven to build portlets. There is a tutorial, Building Mashup Portlets,   You can also use the free Sun Java Studio Creator 2 for building portlets.  To learn how to build portlets in Creator you can read three articles :
- Developing a Portlet Application
- Building a GoogleSearch Web Service Portlet
- Deploying a Portlet to Sun Java Portal Server
Also in conjunction with the Portal Server there is a nice article on Exporting Database or Enterprise JavaBeans Applications from Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE to Sun Portal Server 6.3.1 and 7.0.  If you want a nice online demo of how to create portlets in Creator - check this flash demo of Quick and Easy Portlets Using Sun Java Studio Creator 2. You can find more information at the author's home page and find more information at the Portal Servers Developer Forums.

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