OpenPortal

Information is now available on BigAdmin on post-installation configuration issues and solutions for the Secure Remote Access (SRA). This documentation has a list of common issues that occur after installation of the SRA and tips to solve them. Click here to read the troubleshooting guide.

Click to join portletsIf you are a portlet developer and/or user (or for that matter, in the business of building and/or using the infrastructure that serves as the runtime environment for portlets and more, i.e. portal servers) and are not aware ... [More] of the Portlets Group at Yahoo!, you should consider checking it out.The description on the group site states "This group is created with the objective of discussing portlets and related technology, their usability and problems associated with them. Portlets related technologies, standardizations and specifications like JSR 168, Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), and JSR 170 (JCR) are some of the discussion issues. Though there is no restrictions, you can discuss anything related to portlet..", as well as "..Popular open source and commercial portal servers can also be discussed here..". The group was founded in November 2003 and today has an impressive membership roster of 5800 individuals. [Less]

Here's a new screencast that demonstrates the syndication of Google gadgets from iGoogle to the Sun Portal Server, and also syndication of portlets/channels from the Sun Portal Server to iGoogle. The gadgets are syndicated with the help of the open ... [More] source Google gadgets wrapper portlet from PALAB. The content from Sun Portal Server is syndicated to iGoogle using a Javascript/AJAX script as discussed in a previous post.  [Less]

I added a new section for Portal Documentation in the blog's right sidebar. This section has links to documentation for some of the past releases of the Portal Server. You can use this section to directly access documentation for a particular release ... [More] instead of having to search through the maze at docs.sun.com. I also added a few more links under the Useful Resources section. Let us know if there are any other links that will be useful to share from the blog. [Less]

Sun Java System Portal Server has been recognized in the "Best Portal Platform" category in the recently announced SYS-CON SOA World Reader's Choice Awards for 2007. Read the full announcement here. Overall, Sun has won several top awards, including for the Best Application Server (read more commentary on The Aquarium).

To get started, request the observer or contributor role in the OpenPortal project. This gives the details ... https://portal.dev.java.net/public/GetInvolved.html You can grab the source from the project's subversion repo: ... [More] https://portal.dev.java.net/source/browse/portal The build instructions are here: http://wiki.portal.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=PortalBuildInstructions And the install instructions: http://wiki.portal.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=PortalInstallInstructions Windows is still flaky it is best to start with Linux or Solaris at this point. And finally, subscribe to the users and dev aliases: https://portal.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList The OpenPortal developers are happy to start answering your questions and help you get involved in the project. [Less]

 For those who want to take a closer look at the building blocks of Portal Server and the technology that powers this wonderful product, there is a very handy document in the Portal Server 7.1 document collection.This will give a fair idea to ... [More] someone who wants to evaluate Portal Server prior to installing and testing the product. The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Overview explains quickly the major features Portal Server. [Less]

A new version of Eclipse Portal Pack is uploaded on the Eclipse Portalpack site. To learn how to use this new version to easily add portlet action support to your portlet visit my blog.

Back in January 07, we started a project to support EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management Portlets in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1. The portlets in Content Management and Web Publisher categories are pre-packaged Web Development Kit ... [More] (WDK) components that include Java server pages,  Java classes, and XML files. These portlets  provide core content management and content services for creating, viewing, submitting and publishing various types of content. eRoom portlets provide a dashboard view into EMC Documentum eRoom and offer the ability to manage multiple project eRooms.  ECI Services portlet is built using ECI Services framework with adapters to search various repositories, databases and and web sites. All these portlets are  JSR 168 standard based and customizable. For further details, please visit this link Sun Java System Portal Server Documentum Portlets  [Less]

A new version of Eclipse Portal Pack is uploaded on the Eclipse Portalpack site. I have tried to add support in this version for handling actions in portlets easier. The plugin can be downloaded from the Documents and Files sections of the Eclipse ... [More] Portalpack site. View the announcement here and try it out. You can also read more about it and how to use this new version on my personal blog. [Less]