Nabh is pleased to announce the release of Stringbeans Portal Version 2.4. Significant features included in this release are:

• Portlet application deployer tool
• Two-level menu layout
• Mechanism to create semi-protected portal applications
• Tracking of visited portal applications

About Stringbeans Portal

StringbeansTM Portal is composed of a portlet container, and a framework for effectively administering portal applications. Significant features provided in the current release are:

• Deployment of portlets compatible with JSR 168 standard.
• Portlet and user login logging to file as well as a database.
• Per-portlet access control based on user ID, roles, and arbitrary database relations.
• Portal views based on user ID, roles, and relationships.
• Themes mechanism for personalized look and feel
• Multi-column, menu, and full page layouts
• Portlets capable of displaying RSS headlines, multi-page tabular data from database tables, reports, charts, XML documents via XSL tranformations.

Stringbeans is deployed as a J2EE Web application in a container that supports at least Servlets 2.3 and Java Server Pages (JSP) 1.2 specification. EJB support is not required.
Current Stringbeans distribution, the framework and portlets, have been tested with Tomcat 4.1.24 and Tomcat 5.5.4, but it should work with other major open source Web servers.