Re: Developing simple Pluto based portal - need some pointers

check out this for some pointers:
http://portletwork.blogspot.com/2007/08/testing-portlets-with-jetty-pluto-and.html

2007/10/19, David Carew <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Pluto and I'm charged with developing a simple portal based on
> Pluto 1.0.x.
>
> 1) For the Look and Feel I need to have tabbed pages and to be able to
> customize things like the header graphic of each portal page, fonts, colors
> etc. Basically the same overall layout with different colors graphics, fonts
> etc.
>
> Is there a systematic way to do this or do I have to come up with my own
> scheme ? I am hoping to contain most of the customization  in a set of
> stylesheets along with some kind of changeable template.
>
>
> 2) My2nd major requirement is security. I want to be able to show users
> pages based on their roles. I'll have n pages with a fixed set of portlets.
> I'll have m roles, each of which will be authorized for a subset of the n
> pages. Basically page level security instead of individual portlet security.
> When a user logs in they'll be only able to see the tabbed portlet pages
> that they are authorized to see. Again I'm hoping for a "standard" way of
> doing this rather than having to roll my own solution.
>
> Any hints, tips and/or pointers to additional info are welcome. Thanks
>
>
>


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