Portal Technology Predictions for 2009

1. Portlets will lose ground. Opensocial gadgets / widgets will catch up.
I blogged about this sometime back. With announcements like Sun's SocialSite and eXo Social, this seems to be already happening.

2. WSRP will die.
WSRP is a web services standard which allows a web portal to aggregate content from externally hosted applications into it's own. To me this is the Facebook platform gone wrong. It will die.

3. Goodbye Sun, IBM - Welcome Google, Yahoo
We will witness the shift of power from large IT vendors like Sun and IBM to large consumer facing Internet companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, with respect to defining Web technology.

4. Federated Identity via Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect
Expect these technologies to take off, in a big way.

Happy New Year !

My Javaworld Article - Portlet 2.0 Quickstart Guide

I just published a new article in Javaworld titled: A quickstart guide to Portlet 2.0. It talks about how get up and running your first portlet on the JBoss Portlet Container.

Makes a good addition to the Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286) Tutorial series.

Make any website a social network ...

... is the theme of the day. Be it Google Friend Connect, Facebook Connect or Myspace Data Availability- everyone wants you to use *their* social data.

What does it mean for developers ? Not sure. None of these platforms are public yet. And it will be interesting to see how open they will be.