Tues, Dec 10, 2002 JA-SIG Conference, Orlando, FL Ken Weiner, Interactive Business Solutions...

Tues, Dec 10, 2002JA-SIG Conference, Orlando, FL

Ken Weiner, Interactive Business Solutions

Introducing uPortal 2.1


Overview

• Release timeline

• New features in uPortal 2.1

• Beyond uPortal 2.1


2001 20032000 2002

1.0Jul 2000

1.5Feb 2001

1.6Jun 2001

2.0Feb 2002

2.0.1Apr 2002

2.0.2Jul 2002

2.0.3Dec 2002

2.1Dec 2002

1st Release

Roles

Performance

Architecture

New features

uPortal Release Timeline


New features

• Applet publishing • CWebProxy enhancements• Channel rendering groups• Remote channels• Groups and permissions managers• Composite group service + LDAP impl.• Usage statistics gathering• CAR file support• JNDI data sources


Applet Publishing


Applet Channel Type


Applet Configuration


Applet Dimensions


Applet Parameters


CWebProxy Enhancements

• Multithreaded and cacheable • URL re-writing now in SAX filter, not XSLT• Local Connection Context supported• IPerson attributes passed automatically• Multi-valued HTTP request params

supported • Keyword-style HTTP query strings

supported • GET and POST methods supported


• Allows channels to tailor backend connections to reflect local policy and implementation.

• Connections are provided as Objects such as URL, LDAP, database connections, etc.

org.jasig.portal.security.LocalConnectionContext

public void init(ChannelStaticData sd)public String getDescriptor(String descriptor, ChannelRuntimeData rd)public void sendLocalData(Object connection, ChannelRuntimeData rd)

Local Connection Context


Web Proxy Channel Type


Web Proxy Parameters


ICC Registry

• Inter-channel communication registryorg.jasig.portal.ICCRegistry

• Available in channel static datastaticData.getICCRegistry()

• Registering– Add/remove channel pairs


Channel Rendering GroupsChan A

Chan F

Chan D

Chan B Chan E

Chan C Chan J

Chan G

Chan H

setRuntimeData()renderXML()

Chan A, D, G

Chan B

Chan C, E, F, H

Chan J

1st2nd


ICC Demonstration


uPortal

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uPortal

Chann

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Swing client

SOAP

WSDL

Remote Channel Web Service


Remote Channel Proxy Channel Type


Remote Channel Proxy Parameters


Remote Channel


Personal Learning Assistant


• Uniquely identifies a published channel within an instance of uPortal

• UP_CHANNEL

Channel Functional Name (fname)


Web

Se r

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WebServiceClient

Authenticate

WSDL

Instantiate channel

Render channel

Free channel

Logout

credentials

fnameinstance identifier

instance identifier, runtime datachannel markup

instance identifier

Receive eventinstance identifier, portal event

Remote Channel Web Service


• org.jasig.portal.webservices• IRemoteChannel• RemoteChannel

• org.jasig.portal.webservices.ser• ChannelRuntimeDataSerializerFactory• ChannelRuntimeDataSerializer• ChannelRuntimeDataDeserializerFactory• ChannelRuntimeDataDeserializer• PortalEventSerializerFactory• PortalEventSerializer• PortalEventDeserializerFactory• PortalEventDeserializer… etc.

Remote Channel Service Java Classes


• org.apache.axis.handlers.SimpleSessionHandler

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope …> <SOAP-ENV:Header> <sessionID xsi:type="xsd:long“>12345</sessionID> </SOAP-ENV:Header> <SOAP-ENV:Body> . . . </SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Sessions


<service name="RemoteChannel" provider="java:RPC">

<requestFlow><handler type="SessionHandler"/></requestFlow> <responseFlow><handler type="SessionHandler"/></responseFlow>

<parameter name="scope" value="session"/> <parameter name="className“ value="org.jasig.portal.webservices.RemoteChannel"/>

<parameter name="methodName" value="*"/>

[type mappings for portal objects]

</service>

WEB-INF/server-config.wsdd

Web Service Deployment Descriptor


org.jasig.portal.utils…AbsoluteURLFilterXHTMLURLFilterWMLURLFilter

Add

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<img src=“picture.gif”/>

<img src=“http://remoteportal.edu/picture.gif”/>

URL Rewriting


• org.jasig.portal.channels.remotechannel• CRemoteChannel

– Extends BaseChannel, – Implements IPrivileged, ICacheable

• RemoteChannel• RemoteChannelSoapBindingStub

– Extends Stub– Implements RemoteChannel

• RemoteChannelService• RemoteChannelServiceLocator

– Extends Service– Implements RemoteChannelService

• Exception

Remote Channel Proxy Java Classes


Source: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wsrp/presentations/wsrp_overview.ppt

Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP)

• Developed by OASIS• WSRP will define:

– A WSDL interface description for invocation of WSRP services– How to Publish, Find, Bind WSRP services and metadata– Markup Fragment Rules for markup emitted by WSRP services

• Companies involved in WSRP:– Bea, Bowstreet, Divine, Epicentric, Factiva, France Telecom,

Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Interwoven, Lexis-Nexis, Lotus, Moravia IT, Netegrity, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Plumtree, Silverstream, Stellent, SUN, Sybase, Tibco, WebCollage, SAP Portals, SeeBeyond


WSRP Interface

• bindClient()

• createSession()

• createPortletInstance()

• getPortletMarkup()

• invokePortletAction()

• destroyInstance()


Groups Manager


Composite Groups

<servicelist defaultService="local" compositeFactory=“…">

<service>

<name>local</name>

(Factories for groups service, groups store, and entity store)

</service>

<service>

<name>ldap</name>

(Factories for groups service, groups store, and entity store)

</service>

</servicelist>


LDAP-Based Groups<LDAPGroupStore>

<config> <url>ldap://ldap.columbia.edu:389/o=Columbia,c=US</url><logonid></logonid><logonpassword></logonpassword><keyfield>uni</keyfield><namefield>cn</namefield><usercontext></usercontext><refresh-minutes>120</refresh-minutes>

</config> <group name="All LDAP Groups" key = "all"> <description>LDAP-derived groups</description> <group name=“Vigdors" key="1"> <description>All Vigdors</description> <entity-set><filter string=“cn=*vigdor"/></entity-set> </group>


Object Locking and Caching

• Object locking– Service:

org.jasig.portal.services.EntityLockService– Package:

org.jasig.portal.concurrency.locking

• Object caching– Service:

org.jasig.portal.services.EntityCacheService– Package:

org.jasig.portal.concurrency.caching


Usage Statistics

• Stats Recorder– Means to handle portal events– Service:

org.jasig.portal.services.StatsRecorder– Package:

org.jasig.portal.services.stats– Property:

Stats Recorder Factory Implementation• DoNothingStatsRecorderFactory (default)• PrintingStatsRecorderFactory• LoggingStatsRecorderFactory


Usage Statistics

• Recorded events– User login or logout– Session created or destroyed– Channel definition

published, modified, or removed– Channel added, updated, moved,

or removed from layout– Folder added, updated, moved,

or removed from layout– Channel instantiated, rendered, targeted


Usage Statistics

PrintingStatsRecorder


Channel ARchives (CAR)

• Packaging and deployment of channel code and resources

• WEB-INF/cars directory .car files

• Car resource worker– org.jasig.portal.car.CarResourceWorker


CAR Viewer (Car Lot )

Images areloaded

from car file

CAR file is a zip containingchannel sources, stylesheets, and resources such as images


jpegPhoto Support


JNDI Data Sources

• Can now configure database in web container rather than portal’s rdbm.properties

• Database connection pooling• PortalDb

– Configured in portal.properties

• PersonDb– Configured in PersonDirs.xml


uPortal Web Sitehttp://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/download.html

–uPortal-Only (2.1)»Needs configuration

–Quick-start (2.1)»Contains web container, db

Getting uPortal - Distributions


CVS Repository at Univ of Delawaremis105.mis.udel.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portal

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/home/cvs/jasig logincvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/home/cvs/jasig export –r

rel-2-1 portal

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/home/cvs/jasig export –D now portal

Getting uPortal - CVS


In the works…

• Aggregated layouts

• Internationalization

• Composite permissions

• Channel previews

• Publishing and subscribing servants

• WSRP implementation

• Channel deployment automation


Aggregated Layouts

• Experience constructed for the end user by the implementers/administrators of the portal combined with the end user's customized content

• System for constructing, managing, and administering grouped content, such that the presence and level of visibility of this content is guaranteed to appear in a users layout

• System allowing users to subscribe to grouped content


Aggregated Layouts

A user layout constructed from pre-defined layout fragments

Fragment aggregation


Aggregated Layouts

Health & Legal Services Column

Tab by Faculty and course

Departmental Calendar and Events Column

User adding content that has been grouped by content administrators

Subscribing to fragments


Internationalization

• Support for multiple locales

• Locale = Language + Country

• Levels of personalization– Site– Layout or profile– Channel

I18N


Speaker: Ken WeinerPresentation Title: Introducing uPortal 2.1Date: 12/10/2002Time: 1:45 PM – 2:45 PMRoom: Salon I

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