JSR-286: Portlet Specification 2.0 for Portal and Portlet Developers

The presentation starts out with a short summary of the current JSR-168 Portlet Specification and gives an overview of what Portals and Portlets are all about.
The most important shortcomings and limitations of JSR-168 are discussed next and how you can work around or overcome some of these today.
Then an overview of the new JSR-286 Portlet Specification 2.0 is presented in its latest (and possibly already final) state.
Thereafter, the most important new features and improvements are discussed in detail, with specific focus on how these can be used to solve the problems presented earlier in a standard, non-proprietary way.

Specifically, the following features will be addressed:
- Portlet coordination using Public Render Parameters and Portlet Events
- Resource Serving
- basic AJAX support
- a preview of a possible additional Portlet AJAX extensions project
- Portlet Filter
- Extended Cache Support
- Improved web framework support
- and possibly even more ...

Ate Douma  Hippo Ate Douma is Software Architect and Portal and Portlet specialist at open-source ECM and Portal software vendor Hippo, Amsterdam. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and PMC member and committer for Apache Portals (Pluto, Jetspeed, Bridges, WSRP4J) as well as Apache Wicket.Within the Apache Portals community he is one of the leading Jetspeed-2 Enterprise Portal developer. He also initiated the Portals Bridges project to support portlet development using common web development frameworks, like the Struts Bridge which he initially created, and which now also provides portlet support for JSF, Groovy, Velocity, PHP, Perl, and AndroMDA. Ate Douma is also Expert Group member for the Java Community Process (JCP) JSR-286: Portlet Specification 2.0 as well as the JSR-301: Portlet Bridge Specification for JavaServer Faces. Within the JSR-286 Expert Group Ate works together with the leading architects of all major commercial and open-source Portal providers (IBM, BEA, Oracle, SUN, Apache, Red Hat, Liferay, eXo, etc.) to design the new Portlet Specification 2.0. The JSR-301 Expert Group is working on the specification for the semantics of JSR-168 (Portlet Specification 1.0) and JSR-286 based JavaServer Faces portlets. Ate Douma has already given several presentations about the upcoming JSR-286 specification as well as on Portal and Portlet development in general at international congresses like the ApacheCon and web technology and enterprise content management related seminars.