[10:10:24 CST(-0600)] <athena> morning EricDalquist
[10:10:31 CST(-0600)] <athena> how goes the stats work?
[10:10:46 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> good morning
[10:10:54 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> heh I haven't done anything on it since before the conf
[10:10:59 CST(-0600)] <athena> 
[10:11:09 CST(-0600)] <athena> so the other thing i wanted to mention
[10:11:13 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> with the travel issues last week
[10:11:18 CST(-0600)] <athena> yeah, totally get it
[10:11:42 CST(-0600)] <athena> been playing with creating a reusable library like what we use to generate forms from CPD files
[10:11:59 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> brb in ~ 5 minutes
[10:12:02 CST(-0600)] <athena> not sure we want to keep the JPA aspect of it - figure mostly we'll want to spring-configure the fields
[10:12:03 CST(-0600)] <athena> oh, sure
[10:49:16 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> ok sorry
[10:49:17 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> back
[10:49:27 CST(-0600)] <athena> no worries
[10:49:36 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so what is the use case here?
[10:49:43 CST(-0600)] <athena> so specifically the calendar and news portlets
[10:49:49 CST(-0600)] <athena> right now the administrative interface is pretty lame
[10:50:01 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> ah ok
[10:50:06 CST(-0600)] <athena> you have to know the bean name of the type of calendar/news item you'd liek to create
[10:50:10 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so a generic library for putting together config mode UIs
[10:50:12 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> right?
[10:50:13 CST(-0600)] <athena> then know the expected parameters and add each one
[10:50:14 CST(-0600)] <athena> yeah
[10:50:35 CST(-0600)] <athena> my thought is the calendar/news item types are already configured in spring
[10:50:39 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> I wish we had time to just make it possible to include CPDs in META-INF
[10:50:44 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> and have uPortal just find them
[10:51:05 CST(-0600)] <athena> well, CPDs wouldn't actually be enough for this use case - we need something more dynamic
[10:51:12 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> like extend the PPD format enough to also include the info that is in portlet-definition.xml