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   This blog describes the steps to create a community in WebSynergy. Login as [email protected]/admin into WebSynergyMove your mouse over the "Welcome Admin User" message and click on Add ApplicationIn the Add Application window that shows up ... [More] , select the Communities under Community Section. You can also type "communities" in the search content text box. Click on "Add" or drag and drop the portlet into one of your tabs. The communitiy portlet is now added to your tab. Click on Add Community button. Enter name (say Synergy) and click on Save. The community is created with the name that you specified. Click on "Available Communities" sub-tab.For the community that you just created, click on the "Actions" button and select "Manage Pages". Enter name for the community page (say MySynergyPage ) and click on "Add Page".Click on View Pages. To this community page, you can add the any  portlets. For eg.     Blog Portlet     Blogs Aggregator Portlet     Wiki Portlet     Message Boards Portlet All these portlets are available under the Colloboration section in Add Application windowThe "MySynergyPage"that you have created, allows user to add / view blogs, wiki and message boards.  [Less]

     The community feature of Project WebSynergy has been semantically enabled. This is a preview version of that. This is taking the first step towards Web3.0 enablement. So whats the Semantic Web ?? The semantic web is an evolving ... [More] extension of the world wide web, in which web content can be expressed not only in a natural language but also in a format that can be read and used by machines for processing the information. It is w3c recommendation.As a human when we write and read a blob of text, we know what it means but a machine reading a bunch of characters has no idea as to what it means.  For the machine to be as intelligent as humans to decipher similar information from the text, there has to be some kind of information that the machine has to be provided with. This "extra" information is traditionally provided as meta-data in the form of tags, microformats or some other means. A much more structured and scientific way of applying metadata to a blurb of text is via what is called an ontology. The community feature of Project WebSynergy allows you to add blog entries, wiki pages and message boards.Refer to my blog on how to create a community in Project WebSynergy. For an idea of what a Semantic Community Portal is, see here. In a Project WebSynergy community, when the user creates a blog entry or a wiki page, he/she can optionally associate it with an ontology element (which acts as the metadata). When the user views the blog entry, the other semantically related blog entries and wiki pages are displayed. The search for the related entires is not a key word search, but a semantic search done by the reasoner. The semantic reasoner infers the related ontology elements and we can see the blog entries and wiki pages for which  the related ontology elements have been applied to. An example of the Semantic Community Portal is shown in the screen-casts. [Less]

The expense-report widget, that is delivered as a part of the Project WebSynergy bundle, models a typical workflow scenario  where SAW (Simple API for Workflow) could be used. In an organization, employees raise expense reports and submit them to ... [More] the managers to be approved or rejected. Once submitted, the report triggers a workflow process(in a workflow engine like JavaCAPS), and becomes a pending task for the associated manager. When the manager approves/rejects the report, the report goes to the next step in the workflow process.This widget has been integrated with a simple JavaCAPS workflow process. If a workflow engine is unavailable, the SAW calls to the  Workflow engine can be disabled using the preferences. If the call to the workflow engine is enabled without configuring the engine, it results in a system error. In addition to Workflow, this widget has the following features:  JMaki - Uses JMaki Yahoo Datatable Usage of ServeResource feature of JSR286 portlets for Ajax requests (For Displaying Report Details)Click here to know more about this widget.... Here is a step-by-step screencast showcasing the widget. [Less]

The expense-report widget, that is delivered as a part of the Project WebSynergy bundle, models a typical workflow scenario  where SAW (Simple API for Workflow) could be used. In an organization, employees raise expense reports and submit them to ... [More] the managers to be approved or rejected. Once submitted, the report triggers a workflow process(in a workflow engine like JavaCAPS), and becomes a pending task for the associated manager. When the manager approves/rejects the report, the report goes to the next step in the workflow process.This widget has been integrated with a simple JavaCAPS workflow process. If a workflow engine is unavailable, the SAW calls to the  Workflow engine can be disabled using the preferences. If the call to the workflow engine is enabled without configuring the engine, it results in a system error. In addition to Workflow, this widget has the following features:  JMaki - Uses JMaki Yahoo Datatable Usage of ServeResource feature of JSR286 portlets for Ajax requests (For Displaying Report Details)Click here to know more about this widget.... Here is a step-by-step screencast showcasing the widget. [Less]

     With the announcement of Project WebSynergy, the aggregation and presentation solution for most internet and enterprise applications looks to be heading in the right direction. A significant requirement for any such application is a good Content ... [More] Management System (CMS). Check out this entry as to how Project Mirage is leveraged and used in WebSynergy.  [Less]

     With the announcement of Project WebSynergy, the aggregation and presentation solution for most internet and enterprise applications looks to be heading in the right direction. A significant requirement for any such application is a good Content ... [More] Management System (CMS). Check out this entry as to how Project Mirage is leveraged and used in WebSynergy.  [Less]

   This blog describes the steps to create a community in Project WebSynergy. Login as [email protected]/admin into Project WebSynergyMove your mouse over the "Welcome Admin User" message and click on Add ApplicationIn the Add Application window that ... [More] shows up, select the Communities under Community Section. You can also type "communities" in the search content text box. Click on "Add" or drag and drop the portlet into one of your tabs. The communitiy portlet is now added to your tab. Click on Add Community button. Enter name (say Synergy) and click on Save. The community is created with the name that you specified. Click on "Available Communities" sub-tab.For the community that you just created, click on the "Actions" button and select "Manage Pages". Enter name for the community page (say MySynergyPage ) and click on "Add Page".Click on View Pages. To this community page, you can add the any  portlets. For eg.     Blog Portlet     Blogs Aggregator Portlet     Wiki Portlet     Message Boards Portlet All these portlets are available under the Colloboration section in Add Application windowThe "MySynergyPage"that you have created, allows user to add / view blogs, wiki and message boards.  [Less]

The expense-report widget, that is delivered as a part of the Project WebSynergy bundle, models a typical workflow scenario  where SAW (Simple API for Workflow) could be used. In an organization, employees raise expense reports and submit them to ... [More] the managers to be approved or rejected. Once submitted, the report triggers a workflow process(in a workflow engine like JavaCAPS), and becomes a pending task for the associated manager. When the manager approves/rejects the report, the report goes to the next step in the workflow process.This widget has been integrated with a simple JavaCAPS workflow process. If a workflow engine is unavailable, the SAW calls to the  Workflow engine can be disabled using the preferences. If the call to the workflow engine is enabled without configuring the engine, it results in a system error. In addition to Workflow, this widget has the following features:  JMaki - Uses JMaki Yahoo Datatable Usage of ServeResource feature of JSR286 portlets for Ajax requests (For Displaying Report Details)Click here to know more about this widget.... Here is a step-by-step screencast showcasing the widget. [Less]

     With the announcement of Project WebSynergy, the aggregation and presentation solution for most internet and enterprise applications looks to be heading in the right direction. A significant requirement for any such application is a good Content ... [More] Management System (CMS). Check out this entry as to how Project Mirage is leveraged and used in WebSynergy.  [Less]

There is a preview version of the WebSynergy plug-in available at Portal Pack project site. This NetBeans plug-in supports portlet development and deployment on the new WebSynergy and also works with Liferay. For more details read here...