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GridSphere Portal Framework

GridSphere is a Java Portlet 1.0 API ( http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 ) compliant Web portal hosting environment for use with Java Servlet based web application servers. GridSphere enables developers to quickly develop and package third-party portlet web applications that can be run and administered within the GridSphere portlet container.

Maintained By

Gridsphere is developed at the Albert Einstein Institute ( http://www.aei.mpg.de ) in Golm, Germany and Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center ( http://www.man.poznan.pl ) in Poznan, Poland and receives funding from the D-Grid Initiative ( http://www.d-grid.de ), OMII-Europe Project ( http://www.omii-europe.org ), BEINGRID ( http://www.beingrid.eu ) and other European Union and national funded projects around the world.

License

GridSphere is released under the Apache 2.0 License ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/ ) and may be used by anyone for any purpose, without restriction.

Status

GridSphere source distributions are available at http://www.gridsphere.org while source code is available at http://svn.gridsphere.org . GridSphere has wide-spread adoption in the open-source Grid community.

Core Features

GridSphere offers all the necessary core features for building and managing a website.

• Portlet API 1.0 JSR 168 compliant.
• Built-in persistence support for a wide-variety of relational databases with Hibernate 3.0 ( http://www.hibernate.org/ ).
• Full suite of administrative portlets for managing user accounts, groups, portlet applications, website themes, content layout and more.
• Built-in JCR 1.0 ( http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170 ) compliant content management support with Apache Jackrabbit ( http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ ).
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to portlets and web-content.
• Localized in over 13 different languages.