Postscript on the POST

garym — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:48:51 -0400

Alas, the operative words may have been learning to share or maybe this is just an idea way ahead of it's time, but sadly, nearly one year later and there is still nothing posted to the POST list outside of a few a tiny handful of portlets and while one or two look interesting, most of the others are trivial search-forms, something far easier to cobble in-house than to learn to adapt.

I don't know why POST failed. Maybe it's politics. Maybe portals have had their day in the digital sunshine and have become pass&#233, quaint anachronisms of the days of the megalithic all-in-one website. Or maybe it's because, even after all this time, JSR-168 is still pretty obscure -- I had a request come in just this week from somebody claiming to offer me "the most advanced business portal" and they hadn't even heard of JSR-168, or Pluto, nor had they even really considered the portal paradigm as a platform for multi-vendor applications...

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Postscript on the POST