* Themes - Support now includes content-specific themes, internationalized themes and pluggable themes. JBoss Portal 2.2 adds layout and theme wizards for administrators and more robust layout rendering capabilities, which will be extended to allow for exotic layouts. 

* Personal Dashboard Enhancements - JBoss Portal 2.2 enables portlets to be created or destroyed by administrators or users at runtime. In addition, the advanced personalization features allow users to change themes, layouts and portlet behavior at runtime giving users and administrators greater flexibility, higher portal availability, and easier portal operations. 

* Admin GUI Interface - An improved graphical user interface ensures that users no longer need to manually edit portal XML descriptors. 

* Search Engine-friendly URLs - User and search engine friendly URLs are generated by a new command mapper. This feature ensures that JBoss Portal deployments are more easily referenced by search engines.

In addition, JBoss Portal 2.2 users now have a growing library of portlets developed by the JBoss community to choose from. The launch of PortletSwap (www.portletswap.com) in October has fueled a growing number of contributed portlets, themes and layouts for use with JBoss Portal. These Java Portlet specification (JSR-168) portlets will make it easier than ever for developers to build and deploy on JBoss Portal.

The JBoss Portal community web pages and more information may be found at http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossportal.