RL054 Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin on JSR 362 - Portlet 3.0

In this episode, recorded at Liferay's Devcon 2015 in Darmstadt/Germany, I'm talking to Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin. Scott is the specification lead for JSR-362 - otherwise known as the Portlet Specification 3.0 - and Neil serves as Liferay's representative on the expert group.

(More notes and links available in HTML version of this paragraph and in the blogpost linked to the episode)

In this episode, recorded at Liferay's Devcon 2015 in Darmstadt/Germany, I'm talking to Scott Nicklous and Neil Griffin. Scott is the specification lead for JSR-362 - otherwise known as the Portlet Specification 3.0 - and Neil serves as Liferay's representative on the expert group.

Here are some of the topics that we talked about:

JSR 362 page with all the latest and current information (spec, prototype implementation and javadoc)

The expert group

JSR 286 portlets will run unchanged on JSR 362 (runtime and compiletime compatibility)

My repeat favourite statement about frameworks in the web world.

JSR 362 and its impact on UI, there's a Client-Side standard (on ECMA script) for the first time in the portlet spec

The big question: When will it be done? (Some time 2016)

Early Draft Review Spec available, ~80-90% of content is expected to be there (That's the statement from Devcon, in October 2015)

Reference Implementation (to prove that the spec can be implemented) and TCK still missing (again, October 2015)

Reference Implementation and TCK will be implemented under the Apache Pluto project, help required

New Features include Bean-Portlet-Approach (portlet methods specified through Annotations in any Managed Bean), portlet.xml file no longer required if Annotations used

specifies a JS API despite being a JSR, which covers traditionally only Java

Dependency to JavaEE: Minimum is JavaEE 7, e.g. Servlet 3.1 etc.

Portlet Spec is not part of the JavaEE, but extends some of its elements.

CDI

JSR 378: Portlet 3.0 bridge for JSF (where Neil is the spec lead), being built in parallel with JSR-362

Multiplatform Support, Websocket, Devices

The E-Mail Archive of the specification process is public - contribution and comments are very welcome