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Progress towards a near-term, evolutionary uPortal 3 release continues, with Maven2ization (the first major architectural change identified in the roadmap) completed in an exploratory branch and ready for merge into the trunk, thanks primarily to the efforts of Eric Dalquist and Elliot Metsger. The planned next major effort towards this near-term evolutionary uPortal 3 release is using Spring more extensively and in a more principled way, possibly via adoption of Spring WebMVC as the top web tier of the software, and possibly including adoption of Acegi (Spring Security).
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