This is a copy of a message to the Sakai Partners.

We have made significant progress along Sakai’s roadmap for portal integration.
(1) We delivered the ability to integrate Sakai into portals using iFrames in release 1.5 and updated the capability in Sakai 2.0 using Charon.
(2) The Sakai work to include WSRP Producer is complete and available in the head of SVN and will be included with Sakai 2.1.
(3) A simple JSR-168 portlet has been written that allows the inclusion of Sakai in any JAR-168 compliant portal – this portlet is at a demonstration level.
Efforts (2) and (3) will need further work which will need to be done in the context of Sakai sites interested in actually integrating Sakai into their portals. That work should start now. If you are interested in working toward production deployments of either WSRP or the JSR-168 portlet, please indicate interest in the Portal group on collab.sakaiproject.org.
Beyond these Sakai directed efforts efforts, a nascent effort led by Andrew Petro and Yale to do a close integration of Sakai into uPortal 3. This effort is described in the following web pages maintained by Andrew:
http://jasigch.princeton.edu:9000/display/UPC/Sakai+Integration+Chicago
http://jasigch.princeton.edu:9000/display/UPC/uPortal+Sakai+Integration
This work will continue and be described both on the uPortal Confluence site and in the Sakai Portal group on collab.sakaiproject.org. The first step of the integration has been accomplished (Sakai and uPortal in the same Tomcat) and a nightly build of uPortal with Sakai available under the “Chuck’s Nightly Builds” – on www.dr-chuck.com (please be patient as this is a small server).
Anyone who is interested in helping and/or collaborating on any of this work is encouraged to join the Portal group on collab.sakaiproject.org.