Red Hat's JBoss Releases Portal 2.6
07/02/2007
JBoss.org, the open source middleware community sponsored by Red Hat, today released JBoss Portal 2.6, which brings significant improvements in personalization, identity, and workflow. In addition, this release enhances user productivity through integration with Google Gadgets. JBoss Portal 2.6 will be the foundation for the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, which will be backed by support subscription and services from Red Hat.
ebizQ received the following:
“JBoss Portal is rapidly gaining momentum with an increasing number of
downloads and more enterprise-wide deployments,” said Ram Venkataraman,
director of product management, JBoss, a division of Red Hat. “This
milestone release adds a rich set of enterprise-class features that
dramatically improve the user experience, providing a productive and
affordable base for collaboration, user interaction, and participation
in a services-oriented architecture."
New features of JBoss Portal 2.6 focus on:
- Advanced Personalization: Now users can personalize individual
portlets, including themes, layouts, and portlet content, to increase
the productivity of specific roles and people within a business process
or collaboration effort. Further enhancements include user created user
interfaces, drag-and-drop portlets, personalized dashboards and more
granular controlled access at the portlet level.
- Usability Improvements: These include portal and user administration
as well as content management. Portlets may be managed overall or for
individual instances including default definition. User administration
simplifies user creation, provides a list-based view, and includes user
search. Basic content management provided out-of-the-box now includes
action-based management within a familiar directory view.
- Content Management System (CMS) Workflow: JBoss jBPM provides content
management approval workflow in a configurable process that enables or
disables this role-based approval capability.
- Additional Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Support: WSRP
support offers expanded functionality beyond the basic producer and
consumer profiles. Version 2.6 adds implicit cloning capability to both
the producer and consumer and supports advanced WSRP profiles.
- Identity: With JBoss 2.6, developers have pre-built LDAP integration
with LDAP server. Supported servers include Red Hat Directory Server,
OpenDS, and OpenLDAP.
- Google Gadget Integration: Now, developers have a simplified way to
drop any Google Gadget as portlets. Google Gadgets are mini-applications
that work with the Google homepage, Google Desktop, or any page on the
web and can range from simple HTML to complex applications. Examples
include a calendar, a weather globe, or a media player.
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