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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:00:17 -0400
From: Joe Bohn <joe.bohn@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: How about a Certification Authority (CA) portlet in Geronimo
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Well ... sorta and sorta not ...

Aaron did some work in the Quartz plugin that included a brute force 
method to add new items to the admin console via a GBean included with 
the Quartz plugin that modifies the Pluto portal config.  It's really 
creative stuff within the limits of the current Pluto implementation 
.... but it has its limits.  It is only additive at the moment and isn't 
really integrated with core Geronimo (as it's a super-intelligent GBean 
that just knows the Pluto structure and this Gbean is currently bundled 
with the plugin).   Aaron, please correct anything that I didn't get 
right ... I think what you've done is really cool.

I'd like to see if the newer Pluto includes some more dynamic update 
capabilities (as I've heard that it does) but I haven't had a chance to 
look yet.

So, back to your question ... yes it's possible but IMO, we really don't 
have a complete solution for console plugability yet.

Joe


Jason Dillon wrote:
> Can plugins add new portlets?
> 
> --jason
> 
> 
> On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Hernan Cunico wrote:
> 
>> I would love to see that functionality included in Geronimo.
>>
>> Do you think it could eventually become available as a geronimo- plugin?
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Hernan
>>
>> Vamsavardhana Reddy wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> How about having a Certificate Authority portlet in Geronimo  
>>> Console?  A full fledged CA may be a long way to go.  But what  ever 
>>> minimum function is required to process CSR's etc. is not  hard and 
>>> the users can issue their own digital certificates  instead of 
>>> getting trial certificates from some CA.  I have  already given it a 
>>> try and the minimum required function can be  derived from what ever 
>>> is available in geronimo-util module.
>>> I will wait for comments from community before proceeding further.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vamsi
> 
> 
>