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 Jetspeed 2.0-M2 Release
   April 2, 2005
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* PALM - Portlet Application Lifecycle Manager 
    A new administrative portlet for managing the lifecycle of portlet applications
    Supports start, stop, undeploy and delete operations

* JBoss Support 
   Jetspeed tested and running on JBoss versions 3.2.7 and 4.0.1sp1
    
* New Improved Deployment
   Deployment overhauled to support application server controlled deployment.
   Class loader and cross-context session control issues resolved.

* Struts Bridge Enhancements

* Navigations Refactoring 

* Enhanced credential security and validation, Login/Password Enhancements 

* LDAP Authentication support added.

* Secure Access to Site Resources (Pages, Folders)

* Profiler, Layout, PSML Security Documentation 

* SSO Enhancements

* Improved JSF Support

* Finer grain Spring configuration

* Main Jetspeed context no longer requires /jetspeed
 
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Bug fixes
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see M2-bugfixes.html

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 Tested App Servers:
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 * Tomcat 5.0.30
 * Tomcat 5.5.8
 * JBoss 3.2.7
 * JBoss 4.0.1sp1
 
 (Tomcat 5.5 requires a different jetspeed.xml found in the source tree under src/resources/jetspeed-tomcat-5.5.xml)

 Check out our wiki page for details: http://wiki.apache.org/portals/Jetspeed2


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 NO Longer Supported:
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 * Tomcat 4.1.x

Support for Tomcat 4.1.x has been dropped.

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 Installation Instructions
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1. Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.0.30.tar.gz, or
   Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.0.30.zip (windows), or
   Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.5.8.tar.gz, or 
   Download jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-5.5.8.zip (windows)
2. Expand jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-<version>.tar.gz into a clean directory (as example we will use 'jetspeed')
   
   cd /jetspeed
   tar xfz jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-<version>.tar.gz

   For Windows:
   
   cd c:\jetspeed
   unzip jetspeed-2.0-M2-Tomcat-<version>.zip 

3. start the database

   cd /jetspeed/jetspeed-database
   start-database.sh
   
   For Windows:
   
   cd c:\jetspeed\jetspeed-database
   start-database.bat

4. startup Tomcat 

   execute /jetspeed/jakarta-tomcat-<version>/bin/startup.sh
   
   For Windows:
   
   execute c:\jetspeed\jakarta-tomcat-<version>\bin\startup.bat
   

5. start up a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal


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 Configuring Another Database
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1. cd $TOMCAT_HOME/jetspeed-database/scripts
2. edit the build.properties, set the properties for your database connection, save.
3. create a database schema/catalog to hold your database tables 
4. type 'ant' to run the database population scripts
5. edit the jetspeed.xml properties 
    - $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/jetspeed.xml
   
    and set your database connection

6. copy your database driver into Tomcat's common/endorsed directory

7. start up a web browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/jetspeed/portal

 Sample accounts to login as:
    
 admin/admin
 manager/manager
 user/user
 