JA-SIG uPortal Effort

JA-SIG Java in Administration Special

Interest Group CAUSE Meetings Princeton, UBC, Delaware SUN

JA-SIG Higher Education Not-for-profit Java “Administration” Share Experience and Code Develop Common Direction Promote Java in Higher Education

JA-SIG Princeton UBC Delaware Florida State Cornell UCSD Boston Georgetown

Brown Yale Hawaii Columbia U Washington Minnesota UT Austin …more

JA-SIG Activities Conferences – Twice Annually Clearinghouse – Code Sharing uPortal – Collaborative Development

Conferences December 1999, Orlando, FL July 2000, Monterey, CA December 2000, Orlando, FL East/West SUN Sponsorship

Clearinghouse Members Only Announcement of Code to Share Conditions for Sharing Matchmaker, not Repository

uPortal 1. Collaborative Effort 2. Free Higher-Ed Portal Channel Framework Channel Content Tools for Web Community

uPortal Yale, Princeton, Delaware, UBC,

Georgetown, Holy Cross, IBS Boston, Brown, Cornell, Washington Version 1.0 – Monterey July Version 2.0 – Orlando December

uPortal v1.0 Basic Authentication Channel Publish and Subscribe Personalization of Layout and Colors RSS, HTML, Applets Custom Channels Installed in Frame

uPortal v2.0 Role-based Authentication & Access More Robust Security Higher Levels of Pub/Sub Control Descriptors Move from XML to DB EJB Channel Development: PS,

WebCT, BSR… PDA and Cell Phone Portal Access

Strengths Cost No Advertising By Higher Ed for Higher Ed Institutional Control of Web Layer Design Patterns Collaborative Effort

Challenges Funding Resources Community Source Process Content Interfaces Unproven Cost Effectiveness Not Turnkey

Support and Partnerships SUN IBS Mellon Foundation CampusFirst StudentOnline UBC, Holy Cross,… Dept of Ed Meteor, DOD JVLE,…

More Information JA-SIG

http://www.ja-sig.org Conference

http://www.ja-sig.org Clearinghouse

http://www.udel.edu/ja-sig uPortal:

http://www.udel.edu/ja-sig