First Groovy Portlet implemented in Liferay Portal Server
Groovy is finding its way in more and more Java-based Open Source software products / projects. Now the first implementation of a Groovy portlet was announced for the Liferay Portal Server in a blog entry from Alberto Montero, one of Liferays developers. Ruby and PHP portlets went first (in their java-based incarnation), so it was about time Groovy would be implemented too. The example portlet needs to be checked out from their subversion repository at sourceforge by yourself, since no ready-to-use plugin is available yet. Since it is a rather new enhancement it'll only work with the 5.0.x version of Liferay Portal Server.
On 05/07/08 Liferay announced that Sun Microsystems joined the Liferay Open Source Community and will use core Liferay Portal Server components for their own web development and collaboration platform. For Groovy this is a good message, since there is a high probability that the Groovy portlet bridge will work too in the successor of Sun OpenPortal.
