Portlets are dead. Long live Enterprise OpenSocial !

Early last year, I blogged about why I thought JSR 286 was irrelevant. I also speculated that what makes sense was an enterprise version of OpenSocial, which I called OpenEnterprise.

Today, I am pretty surprised to see that OpenSocial is indeed moving in that direction. Opensocial.org has published a whitepaper titled "Enterprise OpenSocial". I am yet to read the whitepaper, but this seems to be very similar to what I had in mind when I wrote my previous post.

Does this means that we'll finally get to see a decent component platform for enterprise portals ? Of course, OpenSocial is far from being perfect. They still have a lot of technical as well as non-technical issues to fix (I'll take that up in a future blog post). But it's probably better then JSRs that take years to materialize. What I find most interesting is that this spec will extend way beyond the Java world, much like what the Facebook and OpenSocial platforms are today.

Have you read the whitepaper ? What's your take on Enterprise OpenSocial ? What next - Enterprise Facebook :-) ?

Happy 2010

I am back to blogging after a huge break ! Will try to do more justice to this blog this year :-) That said my 2009 predictions have turned out to be fairly accurate, I guess.


Wish you a Happy 2010 !

Portal Zone will now focus on social app development

Portal Zone was launched in 2006 when I was a part of the Sun's Web Portal team (this was the initial blog: The Old Portal Zone). The intent was to share what I learnt as a part of my day job (Portlets, WSRP, Ajax and such) and also, to be honest, provide a little bit for marketing for Sun's Portal product.

In 2007, I moved to another group in Sun and later quit Sun. However, I still continued blogging on the subject (albeit sparingly) on this blog. This was primarily driven by two factors - My interest in the subject + the large readership the blog had attained.

Of late, not only has my interest in this subject been waning, I am no longer actively involved in portlet development. However, there are other related areas that have piqued my interest.

Hence, I have decided to shift the focus of this blog. Portal Zone will no longer be actively covering the Java Portlets/WSRP space. Instead this blog will be focus on the subject of social web app development - viz OpenSocial , Facebook Platform and related topics.

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