OpenPortal

WSRP 1.0 beta and Portlet Container 2.0 beta is now available as part of the Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Beta release. You can download the same from here.  Here are some links to related resourcesRelease Notes Installation Instructions ... [More]  The Portal Pack 2.0 Beta (NetBeans Portlet Plug-in) is available as a separate download that helps developers to develop, deploy and test portlets onto the Portlet Container 2.0 Beta.   [Less]

 Building a successful open source community requires having access to a capable set of individuals/organizations that have a passion for the technology the community represents. Thanks to the success Sun Java Portal Server has had over the ... [More] years, the OpenPortal project inherited thousands of customers and partners interested in Sun's portal technology. One recent example - ICSynergy, a long time Sun system integration partner, found having access to the Sun Java Portal Server source helped them to resolve a major issue for their customer in a fraction of the time it would have taken in the "old days". Read the ICSynergy story [Less]

Check out these portlets that were recently added to the Portlet Repository!The Tour IPC Portlets showcase an example of using JSR 268 Eventing for interportlet communication.  There is a tour list portlet that contains a listing of tour ... [More] locations and the date of the next tour.  When the user selects a tour from the list the tour detail, tour map, and tour weather portlets are updated with information about that tour.The XML Portlet is a simple portlet that performs an XSL translation on an XML file. The XML and XSL files are specified in the portlet preferencesYou'll find the binary, source code, and documentation for all of these portlets and several others at the Portlet Repository Downloads page.  If you didn't find the portlet you were looking for or you'd like to contribute a portlet, then drop us a line and let us know. [Less]

Currently, the web designers design the portal's look and feel via a web based UI -  which they may not be entirely comfortable with.Wouldn't it be nice if portals provide a method by which the designer is able to use professional web design tools ... [More] that he is already familiar with to create a beautiful looking portal.Well, now its possible. For more details on how, click here.For screencasts on how it can be done, click here.This feature is available as part of Portal Server 7.2. [Less]

Documentum portlets are now available for Sun Java System Portal Server. These portlets from Documentum provide Documentum Content Management functionality, including tasks like creating, locating, viewing and managing all types of content. ... [More] Documentum eRoom, Web Publisher and ECI Services portlets can now be integrated and deployed in Sun Java System Portal Server.The following screencast demonstrates integration and deployment of these portlets in Sun Java System Portal Server -- Documentum Portlets Screencast . [Less]

OpenPortal WSRP Project has released the first set of install instructions for the JAX-WS branch, the install instructions are available on the project wiki. This is the first drop from the jaxws_branch, the branch was created a while back to ... [More] facilitate the migration of the WSRP implementation from the older webservice stack (JAX-RPC) to new webservice stack (JAX-WS).  For feedback, please report issues to [email protected] or using issue trackerThe trunk of the Open Portal WSRP Project is still on JAX-RPC. [Less]

The componentization strategy, or as some call it, the consumables strategy (read an earlier blog entry and/or this SDN article for background) being executed by the OpenPortal community has hit another important milestone. As reported earlier ... [More] , along the lines of the Portlet Container component having been integrated into the  Enterprise-class Portal Server implementation in the OpenPortal community; next the WSRP implementation has followed suit. Rajesh describes the new development here. [Less]

Those exploring the OpenPortal community will be interested in reading this articulation (by Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open-source officer) of the diverse perspectives that must be grasped in order to understand the dynamics that drive open source -- The Meanings and Motivations of Open-Source Communities

With Portal Server 7.2, the steps to install portal on an AS cluster is straight forward. It is just like creating multiple portal instances the only difference being the instances belong to a cluster. The only additional attribute to be set for ... [More] the cluster specific instance is the ClusterID attribute.All it requires is to create an AS cluster with the required number of instances and create a portal instance for each of the clustered application server instances.The cluster setup instructions page specifies how to create a simple cluster setup with 2 instances managed by a load balancer.Adding a new instance to the cluster is also straightforward. Create an application server instance (e.g. newinstance) belonging to the cluster (e.g pscluster). Then create a portal instance pointing to the created appserver instance and the appserver cluster i.e, set WebContainerInstanceName=newinstance and ClusterID=pscluster in the WebContainer.properties.SJSAS91 file and run psadmin create-instance. [Less]

In "JSR 286 explained" series, see the commentary on  Portlet Filter, one of the new feature in portlet 2.0 (PLT.20)Filters are Java components that allow on the fly transformations of information in both the request to and the response from a ... [More] portlet. The other features previously covered in "JSR 286 explained" series are Resource Serving, Eventing, caching and Public Render Parameters. [Less]