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Introduction to Portal

Kunta Hutabarat

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What ? Portal ? Portlet ?

Anotherbuzzword ?

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What is Portal ?

My Yahoo is an example– Aggregation of

information and news

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More Technical .. Please ?

JSR 168 defined: – Portlet– Portlet container– Portal

Example

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Portlet Definition

Web component Process request Generate dynamic

content Presentation layer Can be placed

anywhere A “window”

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Portlet Container

Runs portlets Provides the runtime

environment Manages portlets

lifecycle Persistent storage for

preferences

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Portal Definition

Web based application Personalization Single sign on Content aggregation Hosts the presentation

layer of Information Systems

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Future Direction

First step is content aggregation Future step is collaboration between portlets

– Inter-portlet communication– JSR 268– Vendor proprietary infrastructure today

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Take away

Be prepared. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

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References

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/portalserver/refere

nce/techart/jsr168/pb_whitepaper.pdf http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/li

brary/ws-wsrp/ http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Portlet/JSR168FAQ https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks

/education/websphere/0509_saddal/0509_saddal-JSR168-p2pcom.pdf