Blogging Roller

I had no idea. I've read a number of presentations and internals docs about our portal product, but somehow I completely missed the fact that Sun portal 7 (or for the lawyers in the audience Sun Java™ System Portal Server 7) will include my favorite wiki software JSPWiki.

Rich Shaples: this means you can deploy and manage the wiki infrastructure centrally yet allow communities to maintain their own sites - so you get the benefits of centralized management without the inflexibility. As well as support for Wiki Portlets (and Portlets within wikis), Portal Server 7 introduces the new concept of communities - to reflect the informal. non hierarchical nature of many workgroups (ie. virtual teams). There is also great support for AJAX in Portlets to enable you to develop apps. with a much richer user interface.

Cool beans. And that got me thinking. Sun's open source java projects (e.g. Glassfish and eventually Portal) will have an advantage of sorts over Apache's open source Java projects (e.g. Geronimo and Pluto) because Sun can include LGPL components. Apache policy forbids ASF products from having dependencies on components with licenses more restrictive than the ASL. Sun has no such policy. So for example, Sun can bundle JSPWiki, use Hibernate and have bundelicious relationships with other LGPL goodies. Very interesting...

Tags: topic:[wiki], topic:[JSPWiki], topic:[Sun], topic:[LGPL], topic:[Apache]