JBoss started its JavaOne Conference party a week early with the second iteration of its portal application. Launched ahead of the conference next week, the JBoss Portal 2.0 is in many ways a full-fledged portal offering. It features a unified user interface for different applications and content, using Java industry standards.

The previous version was was based on PHP, an HTML scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.

Version 2, however, has been been built from the ground up using the industry standard Java Specification Request 168 (JSR-168), the Java portlet API specification. Shaun Connolly, JBoss vice president of product management, expects the new portal offering to take off well beyond the 27,000 downloads that version 1 gets on a monthly basis. In addition to the features found in the application, he said, the free download will fare well against competing products by IBMand BEA Systems, which can cost anywhere from $30,000 to $50,000.

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