New Features for 2.2.2

Overview of new features in version 2.2.2:

• Many JetUI improvements, see also Intoduction to JetUI
• Portlet Cloning: allow site editors to quickly create new portlet variants based on modified preference and other descriptor settings: JS2-1232
• Support for bulk migration of DBPSML based installations from 2.1.X to 2.2.X: JS2-1127
• Admin roles security restriction on admin roles maintenance: JS2-915
• Enforced portlet level security constraints checking at render time through custom jetspeed-portlet.xml metadata: JS2-1262
• Apache Solr based portlet search engine: JS2-1246

New Features for 2.2.1

Overview of new features in version 2.2.1:

• Jetui Client Side Customization Engine
• Drag and Drop Support of portlets
• Jetspeed Toolbox dockable portlet selector, layout selector, and skin selector
• Dockable Jetspeed Navigator to navigate over spaces, maintenance over pages, folders, links
• Jetspeed Spaces, secured areas of the portal site for workgroups and projects
• JAX RS Services for Portal Customization and Registry manipulations
• Open ID Support
• Preview Portlet Mode from Jetspeed Toolbox
• Improved LDAP synchronization, authentication, and maintenance of LDAP credentials
• CAS Authentication
• Dynamic PSML - dynamically overlay external site maps such as other web sites or content repositories onto the Jetspeed site map to dynamically navigate of external content within portal
• PSML Templates - templacized, secured pages that overlay over URL addressable pages to merge template-portlets such as toolbox and navigator into a single page
• Fragment References - also known as Portlet Instances - allow for referencing preconfigured portlets with preferences from a standard page
• Improved Portlet API 2.0 Support and Compliance
• Improved Installer to support two kinds of installations (min, demo)
• New User Manager supporting true paging over large user databases

New Features for 2.2.0

Overview of new features in version 2.2.0:

• Portlet API 2.0 Support and Compliance
• Inter-Portlet Communication via Events
• New High Speed Preferences Database Storage
• New Extensible Security Model with LDAP Synchronization
• Improved Documentation including 5 New Guides (Users Guide, Admin Guide, Developers Guide, Build Guide, Deploy Guide)
• New Improved Administrative Portlets
• New Skins
• New Maven-2 Custom Build
• Improved integration support for popular web development frameworks like Wicket, Spring MVC, and JSF
• EAR deployment on Websphere 6.1

Standardized

• Fully compliant with Java Portlet API Standard 2.0 (JSR 286)
• Fully compliant with Java Portlet API Standard 1.0 (JSR 168)
• Passed JSR-168 TCK Compatibility Test Suite
• Passed JSR-286 TCK Compatibility Test Suite
• J2EE Security based on JAAS Standard, JAAS DB Portal Security Policy
• LDAP Support for User Authentication
• Implements and fully Supports Portlet Events and other standardized inter-portlet communication features of the Portlet API 2.0

Portal Engine Features

• The Jetspeed Portal - Server-Side Parallel JSR-168/286 Portlet Rendering Engine
• The Jetspeed Desktop - Web 2.0 Client-Side JSR-168/286 Portlet Rendering Engine
• Full Support for JSR-168/286 Portlet Caching and per portlet cache configuration
• Portlet Timeout Tracking with mimimal render time limits
• Portlet Service Manager for automated removal of slow or dead portlets.
• Parallel rendering on Websphere 6.1
• New Fast Preferences Engine with version 2.2.0

Customization Features

• Portal Page Customizer
• Desktop Page Customizer
• Nested Fragment Customization
• Drag and drop moving of portlets
• Resizing of desktop portlet windows
• Portlet Selector with Portlet Categorizations, Full-Text Search of Portlets
• Customizable Themes (Skins)

Security

• New Extensible Security Model with version 2.2.0
• Portlet-level Security checks based on Security Constraints or Security Permissions
• Declarative Security Constraints and JAAS Database Security Policy
• Fully swappable Security Constraint or Security Permission support
• Jetspeed SSO (Single Sign-on)
• Delegation of Security
• Administrative actions logged to Audit Activity database
• LDAP Synchronization

Distributed Cluster Support

• Jetspeed Distributed Cluster - support for distributed deployments of the portal on multiple application server platforms
• Distributed Cache for portal components including preferences, registry and portlet entities.
• Distributed invalidation of portlet cache

Foundation Component Architecture

• Spring-based Components and Scalable Architecture
• Configurable Pipeline Request Processor
• Auto Deployment of Portlet Applications
• Jetspeed Component Java API
• Jetspeed AJAX XML API
• PSML: Extended Portlet Site Markup Language
  • Database Persistent
  • Content Management Facilities
  • Security Constraints
• Full security maintenance using LDAP is now supported for many LDAP providers

Portal Core Features

• Runtime Portlet API Standard Role-based Security
• Portal Content Management and Navigations: Pages, Menus, Folders, Links
• PSML Folder CMS Navigations, Menus, Links
• Rules-based Profiler for page and resource location
• Role-based Aggregation of Visible Pages
• Integrates with most popular databases including Derby, MySQL, MS SQL, Postgres, Oracle, DB2
• Client independent capability engine (html, xhtml, wml,vml)
• Support for Pocket PC
• Internationalization: Localized Portal Resources in 12 Languages
• Statistics Logging Engine
• Portlet Registry
• Full Text Search of Portlet Resources with Lucene
• User Registration
• Forgotten Password
• Rich Login and Password Configuration Management

Administrative Portlets

• User, Role, Group, Password, and Profile Management
• Portal Site Manager
• Remote Portal Application Deployer (RPAD) - hot deploy portlet applications from remote locations on the Web
• JSR 168 Generic User Attributes Editor
• JSR 168 Preferences Editor
• SSO Manager
• Permission Management (JAAS Security)
• Security Constraints Management
• Portlet Application and Lifecycle Management
• Profiler Administration
• Statistics Reports
• Portlet Out of Service Manager
• PSML and XML Import / Export Admin Portlet
• Cache Manager

Web Framework Support and Sample Portlets

• Bridges to other Web Frameworks: Wicket, JSF, Groovy, Struts, PHP, Perl, Velocity
• Sample Portlets:
  • RSS, IFrame, Calendar XSLT, Struts Petstore, Bookmark, Database Browser
  • Integration with Display Tags, Spring MVC

Data Migration Features

• XML Import/Export Utility for all Jetspeed database data to support data migration over versions
• All initial portal data seeded with XML
• XML Schemas for all XML content

Portal Design Features

• Deployment Jetspeed Portlet and Page Skins (Decorators) CSS Components
• Configurable CSS Page Layouts
• Easy to Use Velocity Macro Language for Skin and Layout Components

Development Tools

• Ant-based Installer
• Tutorial
• Automated Maven-2 Build
• Jetspeed-2 Maven Plugin for Custom Portal Development
• Maven-2 Profiles and Archetypes
• AutoDeployment of Portlet Applications, Portal Resources
• Deployment Tools
• Plugin Goals integrated with Auto Deployment Feature
• XML Schemas for PSML, jetspeed-portlet.xml, and Jetspeed XML (seed data)
• Fully compatible and tested with Wicket, JSF and Spring MVC

Extended JSR-168/286 Features

• Custom Portlet Modes and Window States: Edit Defaults, Configure, Print, About
• Custom Window States: Solo
• Dynamically hide Portlets at request time
• Maximize on Edit Defaults or Edit modes option
• Preliminary Portlet API 2.0 ResourceURL support providing full response control for JSR-168 based portlets

Other Features

• Installation choice of either Demo Portal or Minimal Starter Portal
• In-depth Jetspeed 2 Tutorial
• Documentation Guides: Users Guide, Admin Guide, Developers Guide, Build Guide, Deploy Guide

Application Servers Supported

• Tomcat 6
• Jetty
• Websphere 6.0
• Geronimo
• JBoss
• Weblogic