[Zope-CMF] How to manage and deploy portal boxes?

[Tres Seaver]

Ausum wrote:

> What programming strategies would you follow to provide  portal boxes
> (portlets in the Oracle's terminology), like in commercial portal
> applications?
> Surfing the web I've arrived to the testdrive of the portal application from
> Computer Associates, Jasmine. For all the interested on its features, who
> haven't seen it already, I've created a test account in this address:
> http://portaltestdrive.ca.com:8081
>     userid:   testuser123
> pasword:   usertest
> 
> Is there something equivalent in the works at ZC, wich it isn't already in
> the CVS? Is this was to be a CMF product, which of its current
> tools/products would you use, arrange, or rely on for that?


Hmm, couldn't log in with those credentials.  Can you describe

"portlet" better?  Is this like a "slasbox", an embeddable, dynamic
content list, like the news box, but packaged for reuse?


Tres.
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