[Zope] Zope as Portal Server

[Brad Clements]

On 5 May 2001, at 11:03, dave@kovach.com wrote:

> thats very cool Brad.
> 
> You could transform it via XSLT prior to browser though... so, end to end
> it works for anyone...

Sorry, that's what I meant. The portal server selects a stylesheet (provided with the 
gadget) to customize the output for IE, netscape or WAP.


> What are YOUR thoughts using a Zope backed architecture in place of
> something like NPS or iPlanet portal server etc.???

Don't know anything about iPlanet, but I think this would be pretty straightforward with 
Zope. 

NPS does a lot more however, it allows the administrator to customize what the user 
can see/select. There's a hierarchy of settings/authority/views etc that is tightly 
integrated with NDS (eDirectory). You could model this on LDAP.

> what does your gadget for NPS interface with? or is it a generic interface
> to anything?

It's a daily fortune, like the Unix fortune program. I wrote it as a sample Jython servlet to 
see if I can get it published in Novell's AppNotes "Creating NPS gadgets using Jython"

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Brad Clements,                bkc@murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
http://www.murkworks.com                          (315)268-9812 Fax
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