<blockquote>Now that I've got the rewritten portal system working >within OpenACS, my next two goals will be:
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When looking in the cvs repository i found two different portal packages. Is the rewritten portal system the "portal" package in the /contrib directory? I currently use the new-portal package from the dotlrn repository. Is this the current solution?
<blockquote>2. Maximum caching of portal information. In particular >parameters to portlets very, very rarely change and all >the database operations to set the render call up can be >cached more-or-less permanently
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what i found difficult to deal with are portlets that use ns_query... to directly get some kind of user input (like the calendar list view). Do you have ideas how to get caching to work with those portlets?