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October 10, 2005
Jetspeed 2 is using Cocoon for JSR 168?
Very funny (well, actually it's not): I was just reading a german studie about open source portals and found this interesting paragraph (translated into english):
"jetspeed is often referred to within the portal area. This may be because of the fact that it is an Apache project. Jetspeed-2 is the next generation of the portal framework jetspeed and implements the Java Portlet standard JSR 168: using Cocoon Apache Pluto is integrated, the reference implementation for the JSR 168 specification."
Now, this is a "professional studie" done by a well paid company (I guess) and I'm really wondering how they are doing such studies! Jetspeed 2 is nowhere using Cocoon and if you know a little bit about Cocoon, you immediately would question this statement, right? This could probably mean that the person doing the study had to technical background? Or is this a copy/paste mistake? But where did they copy it from...and are you doing studies by copying? Lot's of questions come to my mind...
Anyways, the real sad thing behind this is that other companies or institutions are using such studies to select the right open source product for their own projects - and if the studie is wrong or weak, this leads to failing projects. And of course, in the end, open source in general is blamed. Noone questions such studies :(
Update: And I forgot to mention, that the studie comes to the conclusion that neither Jetspeed 2 (testing M1!) nor JBoss Portal (some beta) are ready for production. But I guess it's much better to make your own analysis if you're interested in using one of these portal solutions.
And if you're interested in an Apache solution, there is always the Apache Cocoon Portal :)
Posted by cziegeler at October 10, 2005 10:00 AM