This basically talks about the new features and enhancements. I am also looking more towards finding if there are any changes to the Architecture/Runtime components with this new version, sort of a new architecture diagram??
I couldn't find anything which points to a major changes in the "BASE" architecture. Correct me if I am wrong.
There are tons of new features and functionality I know, but when it comes to the J2EE/Portal architecture - I didn't seem to find much differences expect Java6/no SDM/no Java dispatcher.
You are considering Java 6 (with JVM from SAP), JEE 5, SAML, AJAX / New Singature Design, new way of deploying and transporting content and so on not a major change?
What do you consider a major change? What new kind of architecture were you expecting? Do you have anything special in mind?
As I told, I was more looking at if there any changes made to the underlying framework/j2ee architecture which I doubt is the case.
The things you have mentioned, 'I' would like to call them a +Functional Overhauling + except support Java6/JEE5 which is definitely a big change. Most of the other things are new features, but again this is just my way of looking at things.
Looking just at the underlying Java/JEE framework, the switch from Java 1.4 to Java 6 is a considerable large change with a huge impact. That the portal is now supporting JSR168 and JSR286 and that portal applications are now using WAR and not anymore PAR is also what I consider a huge change. The support for SAML1.1 and SAML2.0 will also change the security architecture. Another big change is the Ajax Framework Page: instead of using the navigation tag library you can now use Javascript w/ AJAX.
The other features are functional changes (ex: transports, WPC, Wiki), but the above are changes to the underlying framework.
So, what do you consider an architectural change? What did you expect?
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