BEA WLP 10.2 - A quick overview on Flatirons

BEA officially announced to release WLP 10.2, codename Flatirons, by end of February 2008.
Josh Lannin (Lead Product Manager WebLogic Portal) has just posted a new video (9 min) about the features.






Have a look at it or read my super quick summary:

• WSRP via REST (not only WS) for Portlet Instances, not only Portlet Definitions
• Web Clipping Portlet (high quality screen scraping)
• Portlet Publishing URL: any portlet can be consumed by any other presentation platform (static website, other web app, other portal).
  Question on my side to be clarified: What about security?
• Content Management: Bulk Actions for content editors (process multiple items)
  
• Content Presenter Portlet: Easily display list of items of specific content types
• RSS Feeds for content items in VCR out of the box
• Sharepoint 2007 Integration via SPI VCR (still not JSR-170 !)
• DVT (Dynamic Visitor Tools): Most of user customizations are "in-page" by drag'n'drop actions. DVT is based on the newly introduced DISC technology (see below)
  
• DVT also features browsing the portlet catalog including preview.
• DVT also allows users to reset the default configuration of the customized portlets.
  
• DISC (Dynamic Interface Scripting):
  Provides public java script based API for interaction with WLP rendering framework.
  Technology behind it is BEA's Ajax Framework Bundle called "Adrenaline" which itself is based on the Dojo Toolkit and JSON.
  
• Developers have a very convenient way of
  
• WebLogic Workshop 10.2: Workshop Studio has gone! All tools are now for free!
• REST on top of API: BEA started by exposing some portal framework APIs as REST services. As far as I know, the full APIs of PageView, BookView and DesktopView is available via REST out of the box!
  
• Google Gadgets can directly be consumed via PAT (Portal Admin Tool)

Supported Standards:

• JSF 1.1 and 1.2
• Struts 1.1 and 1.2
• Beehive 1.0.1
• JSR-170 Level 1 and 2 excluding optional features
• JSP 2.0
• JSTL 1.1 and 1.2
  

An outlook on the non-confirmed features of the next portal release (codename Sunshine):

• Portal CMS API exposed as REST services (content, search)
• More Sharepoint Integration Features
• WSRP 2.0 Runtime Functions
• JSR 286 Support (Portlet 2.0): Inter Portlet Communication (IPC)
• Java SE 6 Support