Release Notes for the BEA AL .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1

Release Notes for BEA AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1

Contents

Version History

Release Notes Overview

Version 1.1 MP1

New Features

Supported BEA Products

Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, and Browsers

Version 1.1

Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, and Browsers

Supported BEA Products

AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1 MP1 - released June 2008

AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1 - released March 2008

Release Notes Overview

The AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1 packages components required to develop ASP.NET portlets. The product packages existing functionality for ALI portlet development and adds new components and features for WSRP portlet development.

AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1 includes the following:

Web Control Consumer 3.1: Supports authoring portlets using ASP.NET 2.0. This component is the same version as included in .NET Application Accelerator 1.0.
AquaLogic .NET Portlet API 1.1: Provides ease-of-use APIs for the IDK and WSRP portlets.

The AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit (IDK) 6.0 is installed with AL .NET Portlet API 1.1.

Note: ASP.NET 1.1 is unsupported. The Web Control Consumer does not support SSL or Web Parts.

These release notes cover the AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1.

Release notes are occasionally updated after the release date. For the most up-to-date release notes, go to edocs.bea.com or the Product Center at one.bea.com/support.

Version 1.1 MP1

New Features

The BEA licensing framework has been removed from this product entirely. There is no need to obtain or use a license key to enable any functionality in this version.

Supported BEA Products

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at one.bea.com/support for the latest information on supported BEA products.

Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, and Browsers

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at one.bea.com/support for the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers.

Version 1.1

Supported Operating Systems, Application Servers, and Browsers

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers.

Supported BEA Products

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on supported BEA products.

Documentation

The product distribution includes the following documents in the Documentation folder.

Document Title and File Name	Document Description
Attributions ALDotNetPortletToolkit_Attributions.txt	Provides a list of third-party technologies used in the product, along with licensing information.
Documentation index documentation.html	Provides links to current documentation on edocs.bea.com.

Document Title and File Name

Document Description

Attributions

ALDotNetPortletToolkit_Attributions.txt

Provides a list of third-party technologies used in the product, along with licensing information.

Documentation index

documentation.html

Provides links to current documentation on edocs.bea.com.

New Features

The AquaLogic .NET Portlet Toolkit 1.1 provides the following new features:

AquaLogic .NET Portlet API 1.1
- Updated Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 web site project template for WSRP portlets
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 web application project template for WSRP portlets
- Updated Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 file templates for WSRP portlet pages
- Improved WSRP portlet API that no longer requires a special base page and provides simplified access to WSRP portlet properties, registration information, portlet mode, and window state
- WebLogic Portal (WLP) SAML token authentication to WSRP portlets

Known Issues

.NET Portlet Toolkit

.NET Portlet Toolkit creates a redundant add/remove program entry: BEA .Net Portlet API Help. (Issue #66916)