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> We've built a number of proto-portals using Zope. We haven't > grappled with the CMF - it is clearly a candidate for a portal > framework. > > We have Chris Withers from NIP coming on Thursday to give us > the low down on the CMF as a portal framework. If anyone would > like to join us 11 am - 2 pm in Bristol then let me know. You can find the presentation Chris gave via http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/portal/ In a nutshell his answers to the following questions were: Is Zope +/- CMF a candidate portal framework? Not as they stand - but you could build one if you wanted Can Zope +/- CMF drive channels in another portal framework? Yes Can another portal framework exploit Zope +/- CMF as an institutional CMS? Yes In terms of uPortal or Oracle Portal or <name your Java Portal framework> integration, Chris suggested two lines of useful inquiry: * XML Skins "Skins" control the look-and-feel of the CMF. One could write an XML Skin specifically for the purpose of driving a uPortal channel (for example). *JPE Java-Python Extension is a seamless, complete, and efficient integration of Java and standard Python (C Python). JPE provides Java access to Python's native extension, and Java's Swing to Python developers. Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/