Most of the well known Portal products in market comes with some form or shape of web content management systems. The supplied WCM tools are very basic while other are funcionality rich. For example: IBM’s Web content Manager (previously called Lotus WWCM) is very tightly integrated with WebSphere Portal. The product was originally was acquired …
Nov
14
Non–Latin Character Domain Names
Recently ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the introduction of the complete Internet domain names in non-latin specific languages (Non-latin characters in domain names) Extract from one of the Press release: “Up to now, domain names had to use the 26 Latin letters in the English alphabet as well as 10 numerals …
Jul
04
JBoss Portal 2.6
JBoss releases much awaited Portal 2.6 version. The new release bring in significant improvements in personalization, security, workflow, usability aspects along with integration with Google Gadgets. The new features of JBoss 2.6 portal includes (from Red Hat’s JBoss Releases Portal 2.6): “Usability Improvements: These include portal and user administration as well as content management. Portlets …
Jun
01
JAX India 2007: Day 4: SOA and ESB for Enterprise Architecture
The day 4 was a surprise for me, as the number of attendees reduced many folds. Well I went to attend the session “Leveraging SOA and ESB for an Enterprisse Architecture – Bryan Cheung“. Looks like Bryan is a big fan of coffee specially from Startbucks and he all the way of his presentation used …
Apr
21
What each Product Name Means?
Just wondering how much a name of a product make sense? This strike me when I was reading about Search Engine Optimization and came across how domain name plays a vital role in optimization (will cover SEO in my next posts). Lets have a look at few products from each space and try to understand …
May
17
Sun Portal is now Open Source
As mentioned by Navneeth in his post, Sun Portal has been open sourced. The news came in after Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz promised to make Java open-source code at JavaOne. Check out the press release Sun Advances Open Source Strategy at JavaOne. Sun has launched Portal Open Source Project under which it will be …
Feb
19
Ajax – Looking back at year’s old journey
Ajax has come a long way in a year’s time. Last year around this time, we first heard about it. Ajax had brought about the a big difference in web applications which largely changed usability arena. Web Applications started looking like rich desktop applications. Let’s look at its journey from rebirth.
Jan
24
Portal ‘Themes’ Contest
There have been quite a few inititatives like POST, portletswap etc. to encourage people to submit their work in Portlets/Portal world but none really took off. More recently Liferay, a leading opensource Portal, started with “portal themes” contest which ended last month end. The idea was to build the graphic user interface “skins” which helps …
Jan
05
Welcome 2006
Year 2005 had been a happening year in Portals and Content Management domain. Google emerging and standing out from rest of the world growing many folds and exploring in different domains. We saw products like Google Talk, Google Desktop and side bar, Google earth etc. It has really picked up itself from now just being …
Oct
26
WebSphere Application Server: Community Edition
IBM announced new open source version of its Websphere Application Server, the WebSphere application Server Community Edition (WAS CE). WAS CE is based on the Apache Software Foundation’s Geronimo open source application server and is the outcome of the IBM’s acquisition of Gluecode Software last May. WAS CE is a lightweight Java Enterprise Edition-certified application …
