Today mission: JBoss Portal. My first impression: negative. I've tryed its live demo and, after two minutes, I render it useless. How? Follow the steps:
- Login as admin/admin
- Go to the admin page
- Remove the administration portlet
What you got? A portal with a layout that can't be changed... That's typical from JBoss community: they create a simple kernel and everything is extension. JBoss Application Server is a microkernel that manages JMX beans. Everything else is JMX. Likewise, JBoss Portal is just a portlet container. You need that ugly and unintuitive manager (as ugly and unintuitive as AS managers) to manage everything.
BTW, that management portlet does a lot of roundtrips to the server (yep, no AJAX). If you plan to use it on your server, create a page that contains only the manager portlet.
JBoss Portal 2.4 is off my list. I will try 2.6alpha2.
2 comments:
You might want to wait a few days for Beta 1. I've had more luck with that branch.
Nice... I'm trying alpha 2, but with no luck... I hope most of the "impressive" changes are in beta 1. I'll try the nightly build today.
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