Gee... David

I know that there is a reason, somewhere, for the pace of things with standards bodies. We used to refer to such a lack of alacrity as 'glacial'. Ah, well, climate change has affected more than the date at which I can expect to put my pool into service.

In any case, I continue to long for a richer standards based portlet specification. I missed this note:

7 January 2008 - JSR-286 RI work moves to the Subversion trunk

The work on the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) reference implementation that began in January 2007 in the 1.1-286-COMPATIBILITY branch of the Pluto Subversion repository has now been merged back into the current Pluto 1.1 code and moved into the SVN trunk. This code is the basis for a future Pluto 2.0 release. It has been given a version number of 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT in the root Maven 2 pom.xml.

You can follow this at: http://portals.apache.org/pluto/news.html

At least the thing has FINALLY been ratified.