New Features & Functionality

JBoss Portal 2.2 offers new enhancements in the areas of standards support, ease of development and deployment and enterprise functionality. These include:

*Content Management - The JBoss Portal 2.2 content management system (CMS) object model is based on the Java Content Repository (JSR-170). The enhanced CMS architecture enables portal developers to easily swap the CMS with other Java Content Repository compatible content management systems. JBoss Portal 2.2 also supports multiple languages within the CMS.

*Security - New features include authorization based on Java security framework and the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) specification. Integration points are included for identity providers using interfaces defined by the Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) specification.

*Advanced Interportlet Communication - The portlet API has been enhanced to provide a navigable graph of portal objects at run time that portlets can use and link to. JBoss Portal portlets can create links to other objects such as a page, portal or window. A portlet can utilize interportlet communication to adapt its content to specific contexts within the portal environment. 

* Failover/Clustering - JBoss Portal 2.2 introduces portlet clustering, which provides greater availability of portlet sessions through portlet session replication. This differentiates JBoss Portal from other open source portals that utilize web containers for their high availability platform.