Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There?
Scott Ambler talks about actual data resulting from surveys made during 2006-2008, showing how Agile is perceived and implemented within organizations.
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
Posted by Scott Delap on Oct 13, 2006 03:20 PM
This week Roy Russo announced the creation of the Portlet Repository Protocol (PRP) which seeks to create a common web service API that can be used to communicate with portlet repositories. This would allow any portal vendor to browser repositories and download/update portlets like developers currently do when browsing/installing/updating plugins for their IDE of choice.Current participants include:

The protocol will work as follows:
For more on portlets see InfoQ's past coverage of the business case for Portlets.
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