Deep Dive: Sun GlassFish Web Space Server, An Interview With James Falkner

At the 2008 JavaOne Conference, Sun made an exciting announcement regarding a collaboration agreement it reached with the Liferay open portal community. Both companies agreed to share code and release products from a common codebase. Sun GlassFish Web Space Server is an outgrowth of that common codebase, bringing together features and technologies from Liferay as well as Sun's OpenPortal communities.

In this Deep Dive, James Falkner, Sun's Product Architect for portal technologies, demonstrates many of the features that Sun GlassFish Web Space Server offers for administrators, developers, and end users. Along the way, he demonstrates some cool features such as hooking portlet events together graphically, and changing the theme for a portal page in Adobe Dreamweaver using Web Space Server's View Designer plugin.

Here's a screen shot of hooking portlet events together:

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And here's a screen shot of updating a portal page theme in Adobe Dreamweaver using the View Designer plugin:

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There's so much functionality in the Web Space Server that it was difficult to fit James's demonstrations into one short video. So instead we offer multiple videos -- or a video in multiple parts. Watch it. I think you'll see that Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 is a fun and highly functional product.

Host: Ed Ort, Senior Staff Information Engineer, Sun Microsystem
Guest: James Falkner, Product Architect for Portal Technologies, Sun Microsystems

• Part 1: Learn about the key features in Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0.

• Part 2: See a demonstration of Web Space Server administration features.
• Part 3: See how easy it is to create portlets using the NetBeans Portal Pack with Web Space Server.
• Part 4: See how easy it is to manage a portal theme using the View Designer. Also see some of the important Web Space Server features for end users.