The Kickstart

Hi all

I hope this is not considered spam... (shameless self-promotion)


I've been working on a student research project since last October.
The larger topic were Portlets and Spring in a Portlet Environment.
That's how I got to pluto and this mailing-list in the first place...
One of the primary results of that project is a kickstart document.
The document is a introduction to portlets and spring-portlet. It
describes:
- how portlets work
- lots of my personal experiences from working with portlets
- how spring-portlet works
- some best practices
- ...

The document is, however, in *german only*... I also currently don't
have the time to translate it on my own - but if someone is willing to
do this, I'd be happy to put the translation onto my website too.


There is also a source distribution of the demo-portlets I wrote
during that project. The portlets also include a few spring
utility-classes I contributed to SpringPortlet but weren't included so
far. So it's not "vanilla" SpringPortlet everywhere. It's all
Pluto-1.1 and Spring-2.0-M2.


Feel free to have a look at it or contact me if you have any questions.
http://www.swisstech.net/portlet


Thanks for all the help I've received during the last months and good
luck for the 1.1 release :-)

- Patrick

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