Rob Brooks-Bilson
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ColdFusion MX, Portals, Portlets and JSR 168 Revisited.
September 15, 2005
It's been almost two years now since I blogged about CFMX, Portlets and JSR 168. Since then, I haven't seen anything published on the subject, outside of a few conversations I've had with various other developers and a handful of Macromedia people.
What I find myself wondering today is,if anyone out there is building JSR 168 compliant portlets using ColdFusion, and if so, how are you doing it and what portal platforms are you deploying on? With Macromedia soliciting feature requests for ColdFusion 8, this is one area I'd really like to see formally addressed by Macromedia.
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9/15/05 2:52 PM
I haven't, but I will be playing with WSRP + CF over the next few months (mostly consuming, but maybe some producing as well).
9/16/05 12:51 PM
Cool Dave. This is one of the way's I mentioned CF might be used with portals in my previous post. Are you going to blog about your experiences?
9/16/05 2:35 PM
I definitely plan on it!!
10/30/05 11:40 AM
I 've actually deployed CFMX 7 onto WebSphere 5.01 portal and we develop all are portlets in CF. As CFMX is JAVA you can call portlet.request, etc. We were able to deploy our portal in a fraction of the time if we just used J2EE to devlop our portlets
10/30/05 11:53 AM
That's great to know. With the impending release of FlexBuilder 2, I think the combination of portals, CF, and Flex is going to be a really sweet offering.
7/3/06 5:30 PM
I was google coldfusion and portals and ran across this blog...
We have deployed our "E-Services" system on a WebSphere Portal 5.1 box using CFMX 7 as the source. Currently using a custome built portlet which simply has an IFrame container pointing at at cfmx page. (Did this in our first cut at putting cfmx 6 on a WebSphere box and because of time and manpower constraints never got around to improving on that). Would really like to find resources or other people (like CMLCPT above) where the cfmx code runs in the portlet as opposed to an IFrame.
We were one of the first to beta test cf on WebSphere and at the time there was some Macromedia developers tinkering around with something they were calling CFPORTLET, but I never heard much on that again.