About the Jetspeed 2.1 Release

The Jetspeed 2.1 release is the second major release of the Jetspeed-2 portal.

New Features in Version 2.1

• Jetspeed Desktop - Web 2.0 client-side JSR-168 portlet aggregation.
• Multithreaded Aggregator - multithreaded portlet aggregator with portlet timeout tracking, removal of slow rendering portlets.
• Jetspeed Distributed Cluster - support for distributed deployments of the portal on multiple application server platforms
• JSR 168 Caching - full caching support of JSR 168 portlet specification, distributed cache invalidation
• TCK Compliant as of 2.1 (2.0 was compliant as well)
• New and Improved Administrative and Security Portlets
• XML Schemas for PSML, jetspeed-portlet.xml, and Jetspeed XML (seed data)
• Installation choice of either Demo Portal or Minimal Starter Portal
• New Jetspeed Tutorial
• Maven-2 Build as well as Maven-1
• Remote Portal Application Deployer - deploy portlet applications from remote locations on the Web
• Improved Customizers, Portal and Desktop Customizers, drag and drop moving of portlets, nested fragment customization
• New Portlet Category Selector
• XML Import/Export of all Jetspeed database data and seed data scripts for backup and restore and data migration
• Improved Security Control - fully swappable Security Constraint or Security Permission support
• Portlet-level Security checks based on Security Constraints or Security Permissions
• Improved Jetspeed AJAX API
• Improved Delegation of Security Support
• New Site Manager