Nullcraft Portal Development Kit is a tool for Web developers to quickly and easily
integrate several heterogeneous applications and news sources together into a
multi-page portal layout. It takes advantage of a J2EE environment, yet still allows web
developers to develop and maintain CGI and other applications. The main display format
is
via a JSP page that uses JSP custom tag libraries to generate the dynamic layout. This
layout mechanism uses features from JSP 1.2 spec. The "native" development
environment
for backend modules will be Java 2 Servlet/JSP. J2EE security components will be made
available to all applications accessed via the Portal. News channels can be managed using
RDF (RSS) files. Configuration via XML files or JDBC connection will both be available
options. Each backend component type has it's own Plugin for configuration and
execution.