This presentation will provide an overview of the Pluto reference implementation of the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168). The discussion will include examples of the use of Java Portals that are open source, including Jetspeed and Liferay. There are portal servers available that leverage technologies other than Java. This presentation will characterize the advantages that Java technology brings to portal development and deployment and address the primary technology, software and information architecture tradeoffs that should be considered in the selection of a portal technology. Finally, we will go into detail on the areas that developers are directly responsible for in the creation and deployment of portal solutions. A brief discussion of the differences between portal technologies and web services will be included.

Sean Goggins is a journeyman software professional with 15 years of diverse experience, and is currently working at Nestlé Purina Petcare in St. Louis. Mr. Goggins has done Java development, served as an architect on a large J2EE software team, and defined metadata management and data integration strategies for product development and manufacturing system integration in the medical device and consumer products industries. He has also worked with computational biologists on the definition of software systems and analysis models to support the mapping of the Bovine and Porcine genomes. Mr. Goggins is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, is an IEEE Certified Software Development Professional and holds an M.S. degree in Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota.