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About the Bridge

The JBoss Portlet Bridge is a non-final draft implementation of the JSR-301 and JSR-329 specifications to support JSF within a portlet and with added enhancements to support other web frameworks. Currently the bridge supports any combination of JSF, Seam, and RichFaces to run inside a portlet.

After many long days (and nights) both from our developers and you, we are able to give you the CR for a final version of the JBoss Portlet Bridge. Please download an upgrade to this latest version and let us know if you experience any issues.

Check out the video here:

www.vimeo.com/8752541

A big thanks goes out to all who contributed, including community members Stefan Tausendpfund and Waldemar Klaczynski!

by portletbridge at Fri Jan 15 09:27:52 EST 2010

Which Bridge Version Should I Use?

This project covers 2 specifications. The 1.0 branch covers JSR-301 and trunk covers JSR-329. For a little under 2 years, the 1.0 bridge has been undergoing active development, but right after we released 1.0.0.CR2, we also released an alpha implementation of the newer and better 2.0 bridge.

We were not able to get to a 1.0.GA implementation because we wanted to be aligned with the 301 specification, and even though it's pretty much complete, it is still awaiting final approval.

So, in an effort to keep things new and innovative we started on the 2.0 bridge which gives JSF apps a lot more power in a portlet environment. And since it solves many difficult problems that 1.0 had, we will drop development of the 1.0 codebase in favor of 2.0.

At this time the JBoss Portlet Bridge is only supported to run on GateIn and or JBoss Portal.