Speakers:
See also the Winter 2004 uPortal Roadmap presentation.
Introduction
Major, Minor, and Patches releases
Major releases accomodate revolutionary change, such as moving from being IChannel-centric to being JSR-168 portlet-centric. Minor releases accomodate evolutionary change, such as moving to Commons Logging, adopting a new Layout Manager implementation. Patches releases accomodate conservative, backwards-compatible changes, such as most bugfixes.
Feel-good slides showing the many uPortal deployers
Patch releases provide backwards-compatible improvements, fixes for these current deployers. Minor releases provide incrementally enhanced versions of uPortal that aren't so very much different to which deployers might upgrade, new deployers might start out with. Introduce new features in response to deployer contributions, feedback. Major releases provide revolutionarily new platform upon which to build enterprise portal instances.
uPortal 2.x
uPortal 2.4.3
Important progress in 2-4-patches towards uPortal 2.4.3. Bugfixes. Memory leak fixes.
uPortal 2.5.0
What's in this release, what didn't make it, and what this means
SunGard SCT DLM Layout Management
- Layout management from the commercial product Luminis
Improved JSR-168 support
- Portlet caching
- Redirects
Chaining Throwables throughout
Adoption of JDK 1.4, enhancement of our APIs, and actually chaining at the throws lead to pervasively chaining exceptions, making it easier to debug a running uPotal.
Release QA
Incrementally improved. All the unit tests pass.
Spring
Incremental adoption of Spring as the way we wire together a uPortal instance. (Transition to uP 3.0 portion of talk...)
uPortal 2.6
Predictions of another uPortal 2.x release