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Plumtree Software, Documentum, BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems Join Forces to
Create Open-Source Site for JSR 168 and WSRP Portlets
Independent Enterprise Software Vendors Align to Support Standards; Industry
Analysts and Standards Bodies Applaud Effort
Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise software vendors Plumtree
Software , Documentum , BEA Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced the industry's first open-source site for organizations to share
portlets developed according to the new JCP JSR 168 and WSRP OASIS standards.
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/portlet-opensrc/ , the site is
hosted by SourceForge, an independent organization that hosts a variety of
Java(TM) technology and Linux open-source initiatives. Plumtree, Documentum, BEA
and Sun will provide an initial library of standards-based portlets, and will
provide ongoing feedback, suggestions and best practices for successful JSR 168
and WSRP portlet development. The site is open to all organizations, including
customers and partners of competing portal software providers such as IBM,
Vignette and SAP. Both the JCP and OASIS, the standard bodies that developed JSR
168 and WSRP respectively, today expressed support for the open-source site,
known as the Portlet Open-Source Trading site, or POST. The site will help
companies learn from their industry peers and share best practices for
developing standards-based portlets.
"Plumtree conceived of this site as part of its Radical Openness strategy, which
is our long-term commitment to ensure that every major component of our solution
is interoperable with customers' existing technologies, even technologies that
compete with our own," said Glenn Kelman, vice president of product marketing
and management for Plumtree. "Today, Plumtree, BEA, Documentum and Sun are
working together to support the freedom to build application components on any
application server and assemble them into applications within any portal. The
POST site provides a forum for portlet development that is unprecedented in the
industry."
"Documentum was one of the first vendors to support an open environment in which
portals, collaboration, content management and search could work together to
support every Web application in the enterprise," said Whitney Tidmarsh, vice
president and general manager of Web Content and Document Management for
Documentum. "Now as standards have emerged to allow components of those
technologies to become interoperable, Documentum is working with Plumtree, BEA
and Sun to ensure that customers have a forum for sharing these components,
regardless of the platform for which they were originally developed."
"The SourceForge initiative represents a tremendous opportunity for developers
to work with leading vendors to create an extensive, open ecosystem of
'pluggable' portlets," said Byron Sebastian, vice president and general manager
for WebLogic Workshop(TM) and WebLogic Portal(TM) at BEA Systems. "Open-source
portlets can also help customers kick-start their portal deployments, bringing
faster time to value to all users of portal technologies. BEA's support for this
initiative demonstrates our continued focus on making it easier for partners and
developers to extend and expand the value of the standards-based WebLogic
platform."
"As co-leader of the JSR 168 specification, Sun continues to promote the growth
of open-source portal standards through its efforts on java.net and its support
for POST," said Mike Bellissimo, senior director, Software Developer Marketing
and Management for Sun Microsystems. "Open-source collaboration is a significant
step towards establishing widespread adoption of portlets based on JSR 168."
"Gartner has long envisioned the portal, plus its surrounding ecosystem, as an
environment in which components for building applications can be created by
different parties and, through standards, re-assembled into new user
experiences," said Gartner Research Director, Ray Valdes. "The emergence of
portlet standards combined with a means for sharing standards-based portlets
will potentially provide great benefit to portal customers by increasing choice
and reducing cost."
Separate areas within POST exist for sharing JSR 168 and WSRP components. As
with any open-source site on SourceForge.net, any registered organization can
contribute portlets to POST, which become available to all other members of the
open-source community. Thus, organizations that submit portlets to the site
benefit from enhancements to their portlets developed by other POST members.
Using POST, participants can:
-- see lists of newly available portlets;
-- post requests to the community for the development of new portlets;
-- search for portlets;
-- upload new portlets;
-- download available portlets;
-- submit modified or enhanced versions of downloaded portlets; and
-- discuss portlet development best practices, issues and solutions.
"The OASIS WSRP Technical Committee worked from the outset to ensure our Web
services interface would provide efficient access to portlets developed using
the emerging JSR 168 standard, as well as other platforms, such as .NET. With
open-source efforts for hosting portlets underway (Apache Foundation pluto and
wsrp4j projects), clearly the next step is sites focused on developing
portlets," said Rich Thompson of IBM, chair of the OASIS WSRP Technical
Committee. "POST is such a site. Its launching so soon after WSRP was approved
as an OASIS standard is another clear indication of the marketplace's readiness
to adopt WSRP." The official work of the OASIS WSRP TC can be reviewed at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp.
"JCP is delighted to see the success its standards initiatives are having in the
industry," said Onno Kluyt, director, JCP, Project Management Office. "This Web
site underscores the importance developers attach to compatible implementations
of JSRs and is an opportunity to share the results of the community work with an
ever growing constituency of developers."
To register as a member of POST, developers can visit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/portlet-opensrc/ . Companies interested in
joining the coalition of companies supporting the site can e-mail for more
information.
About Plumtree Software
Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create
a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the
enterprise to interact with a wide range of Web applications. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and an application management framework for delivering these Web applications to
broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow
this solution to span rival application servers, helping maximize customers'
return on their existing technology investments. With offices in more than a
dozen countries, Plumtree has licensed over 550 customers, including Boeing,
Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information,
visit Plumtree on the Web at http://www.plumtree.com/.
About Documentum
Documentum provides enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that enable
organizations to unite teams, content and associated business processes.
Documentum's integrated set of content, compliance and collaboration solutions
support the way people work, from initial discussion and planning through
design, production, marketing, sales, service and corporate administration. With
a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage,
deliver and archive the content that drives business operations, from documents
and discussions to e-mail, Web pages, records and rich media. The Documentum
platform makes it possible for companies to distribute all of this content in
multiple languages, across internal and external systems, applications and user
communities. As a result, Documentum's customers, which include thousands of the
world's most successful organizations, harness corporate knowledge, accelerate
time to market, increase customer satisfaction, enhance supply chain
efficiencies and reduce operating costs, improving their overall competitive
advantage. For more information, visit Documentum on the Web at
http://www.documentum.com/.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software
company, providing the enterprise software foundation for more than 15,000
customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500.
BEA, Tuxedo, and its WebLogic(R) brand are among the most trusted names in
business.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 77 offices in 31 countries and is on
the Web at http://www.bea.com/.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer"
-- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of
industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun
can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at
http://www.sun.com/ .
About the Java Community Process
Since its introduction in 1998 as the open, inclusive process to develop and
revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology
compatibility kits, the Java Community Process program has fostered the
evolution of the Java platform in cooperation with the international Java
developer community. The JCP has over 650 company and individual participants;
more than 190 Java technology specifications are in development in the JCP
program out of which 46% are in final stages. For more information on the JCP
program, please visit http://jcp.org/ .
DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software
CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or
; or Greg Dierickse of Documentum,
+1-925-600-5603, or ; or Karesha McGee of BEA
Systems, Inc., +1-408-570-8288, or ; or Doron Aronson of
Sun Microsystems, Inc., +1-408-276-6021, or
Web site: http://jcp.org/
Web site: http://www.sun.com/
Web site: http://www.bea.com/
Web site: http://www.documentum.com/
Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/