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 Jetspeed 2.0 Release
   December 8, 2005
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The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the final release of 
the Jetspeed-2 Open Source Enterprise Portal. This final release is 
fully-compliant with the Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR-168).
Jetspeed-2 has passed the TCK (Test Compatibility Kit) suite and is fully 
CERTIFIED to the Java Portlet Standard.


Features of the Final Release Include:

Standardized:
* Fully compliant with Java Portlet API Standard 1.0 (JSR 168)
* Passed JSR-168 TCK Compatibility Test Suite
* J2EE Security based on JAAS Standard, JAAS DB Portal Security Policy
* LDAP Support for User Authentication

Foundation Component Architecture:
* Spring-based Components and Scalable Architecture
* Configurable Pipeline Request Processor
* Auto Deployment of Portlet Applications
* Jetspeed Component Java API
* Jetspeed AJAX XML API
* PSML: Extended Portlet Site Markup Language
    - Database Persistent
    - Content Management Facilities
    - Security Constraints

Portal Core Features:
* Declarative Security Constraints and JAAS Database Security Policy
* Runtime Portlet API Standard Role-based Security
* Portal Content Management and Navigations: Pages, Menus, Folders, Links
* Multithreaded Aggregation Engine
* PSML Folder CMS Navigations, Menus, Links
* Jetspeed SSO (Single Sign-on)
* Rules-based Profiler for page and resource location
* Integrates with most popular databases including
   - Derby, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres, DB2
* Client independent capability engine (HTML, XHTML, WML, VML)
* Internationalization: Localized Portal Resources in 12 Languages
* Statistics Logging Engine
* Portlet Registry
* Full Text Search of Portlet Resources with Lucene
* User Registration
* Forgotten Password
* Rich Login and Password Configuration Management

Administrative Portlets:
* User, Role, Group, Password, and Profile Management
* JSR 168 Generic User Attributes Editor
    - JSR 168 Preferences Editor 
    -  Site Manager
    -  SSO Manager
    -  Portlet Application and Lifecycle Management
    -  Profiler Administration
    -  Statistics Reports

Web Framework Support and Sample Portlets:
* Bridges to other Web Frameworks
   - JSF, Struts, PHP, Perl, Velocity
* Sample Portlets
   - RSS, IFrame, Calendar XSLT, Bookmark, Database Browser
   - Integration with Display Tags, Spring MVC

Customization Features:
* Administrative Site Manager
* Page Customizer

Portal Design Features:
* Deployment Jetspeed Portlet and Page Skins (Decorators) CSS Components
* Configurable CSS Page Layouts
* Easy to Use Velocity Macro Language for Skin and Layout Components

Development Tools
* Automated Maven Build
* Jetspeed-2 Maven Plugin for Custom Portal Development
* AutoDeployment of Portlet Applications, Portal Resources
* Deployment Tools
* Plugin Goals integrated with Auto Deployment Feature

Application Servers Supported:
* Tomcat 5.0.x
* Tomcat 5.5.x
* Websphere 5.1, 6.0
* JBoss 

The release is available for download from the Apache Download Mirrors:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi 

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 Installation Requirements
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1. JVM 1.4.2_04 or greater
2. 256 MB of Disk Space
3. 512 MB of Memory

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 Installation Instructions
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1. For an installation with a built-ready-to-run-Derby database, download:
  
   Jetspeed2.0-derby-install.jar
   
   For an installation allowing you to choose your database, download:

   Jetspeed2.0-MultiDb-install.jar
   
2. Run the installer 
   
	java -jar Jetspeed2.0-derby-install.jar	
	-- or --
	java -jar Jetspeed2.0-MultiDb-install.jar
	
	The installer will operate in both graphical and headless-commandline mode.
	You may choose the location of the install.
	
3. startup Tomcat 

   execute /usr/local/ApacheJetspeed2.0/bin/startup.sh
   
   For Windows:
   
   execute c:\Program Files\Apache Jetspeed 2.0\bin\startup.bat
   

4. The very first invocation of the portal requires approximately one minute for initial 
   startup and final installation. Please wait one minute, and then start up a web browser 
   and navigate to http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal

5. Login 

 Sample accounts to login as:
    
 admin/admin
 manager/manager
 user/user

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Release Notes
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1. RSS Portlet requires xalan-2.4.1.jar in common/lib of Tomcat
   If you are running Java 1.5, you will need to copy the xalan-2.3.jar there
   from your jetspeed/WEB-INF/lib directory.

2. The User Registration and Forgotten Password Portlets require an SMTP server 
   to function. The default settings are configured to a mail server on localhost
   with no username or password. To change these settings, edit the Spring configuration
   for the mailSender component, located in the jetspeed/WEB-INF/assembly/administration.xml file.
   

