May 2008

12

Creating communities in Project WebSynergy

 

 This blog describes the steps to create a community in Project WebSynergy.

  1. Login as admin@example.com/admin into Project WebSynergy
    Move your mouse over the "Welcome Admin User" message and click on Add Application
  2. In the Add Application window that 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.
  3. Click on Add Community button.
  4. Enter name (say Synergy) and click on Save. The community is created with the name that you specified.
    Click on "Available Communities" sub-tab.
  5. 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".
  6. 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
  7. All these portlets are available under the Colloboration section in Add Application window
The "MySynergyPage"that you have created, allows user to add / view blogs, wiki and message boards. 



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Posted by Ganesh Ram in OpenPortal
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Jul 2007

23

How about a Semantic Community Portal?

A lot of research currently is going on in the space of the currently evolving Semantic Web. Also a good deal of work has gone in the recent past in building social networking web portals. There seemingly is a synergy between the social networking community portals and the semantic web. For a more detailed view on these thoughts view my blog entry here.
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Jul 2007

19

Command-Line Utilities to Administer Communities

Portal Server community administration can be done from either the Portal Server Management Console or through command-line interface (CLI). 

For the Portal Server 7.1u1 release, the command-line utilities for community administration was consolidated into a technical note.

 Each entry has the command (long and short formats), description, syntax, and options.

Instructions to administer communities from the Portal Server Management Console is available in the online help.

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Posted by Ram Venkatraman in OpenPortal
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Jul 2007

02

New Contributor to JSF Portlet Bridge Project

The JSF Portlet Bridge Project is making steady progress. Late last year the project released JSF Portlet Bridge 1.2 which enables running JSF 1.2 applications as portlets in the OpenPortal Portlet Container. The project team is currently improving on that implementation.

   I would also like to welcome a new member to the project -- A. Alonso Dominguez, from Social Labs NetSolutions.  He is actively contributing to the implementation of JSR 301 in the project. JSR 301 is the Portlet Bridge Specification for JavaServer Faces Technology. It standardizes the behaviour of bridge implementations to ensure true interoperability for JSF artifacts. See the JSF Portlet Bridge Project for more details.

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Posted by Deepak Gothe in OpenPortal
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Jun 2007

29

Portal Server 7.1 Update1 Documents Published

Portal Server 7.1 Update1 documents were recently published. Click the image to go to the document collection.

 

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Jun 2007

29

New Look, Same Great Content

You've probably noticed we gave this blog a fresh, new look today.  The motivation was to inspire our great content writers, as well as our readers, to touch it.

We'd love to hear what you think.  Please feel free to comment on what improvements you'd like to see. As always, we're open to them.

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Jun 2007

25

Portal Server 7 Samples Screencast

There are 4 portal samples available with Portal Server 7.  Here's a quick overview of each sample and pointers to the screencasts available for the samples.

Portal Welcome page

  • The Enterprise Sample is a business portal based on a fictitious company named Adventure Sports Café and showcases key features of the Sun Java™ System Portal Server.  Checkout the screencast
  • The Developer Sample highlights content that would be helpful to a developer trying to understand the inner workings of the Sun Java™ System Portal Server. Checkout the screencast

The fourth sample is the Welcome Sample which is a welcome page that provides a single point of access to the portal samples and pointers to the product documentation and support.

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Jun 2007

07

OpenPortal Community Wiki has Moved!

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The OpenPortal Community Wiki has moved. Please make sure you update your bookmarks.  You'll find the new OpenPortal Community Wiki page here.

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May 2007

04

What's new on the OpenPortal project site

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Check out two cool enhancements to the OpenPortal community landing page:

  1. Roadmap – now that the complete production portal server source code is available to the community, we wanted to ensure the community also has visibility to features expected in future source and binary versions e.g. upcoming features like the new Visual Desktop Design Tool, Delegated Administration, etc. We will update the roadmap as new features are added or removed from a specific future release.

  2. Centralized and Categorized Downloads – since the OpenPortal community site is intended to be the main landing page for all related subprojects, we centralized the navigation to all the downloads that are available on sun.com, java.net, netbeans.org, etc. Additionally, we have structured the page to make it easy to find relevant information for the download you are interested in.

We hope you like the changes.

 

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May 2007

01

Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Source Available in the OpenPortal Community

OpenPortal  Sun announces the creation of the OpenPortal community which will focus on the development of standards-based enterprise-class portal technologies. You can access the OpenPortal community on java.net.

Sun recently contributed the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 source into the OpenPortal community.  The source code is a read-only, non-buildable version that you can download from the OpenPortal Downloads page.  A buildable version of the source code will be available later this month, the Roadmap page has more details.

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 includes features such as

  • identity-based content delivery,
  • community framework (including wiki and blog),
  • plugins for portlet development in Eclipse and NetBeans,
  • and much more. 
Developers can now use, reproduce, modify, sublicense and redistribute the portal source code under the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).  You will also find several Developer Resources available on the OpenPortal Downloads page.

Moving forward, all Sun Java System Portal Server development, including buildable source and binaries, will be available in the OpenPortal community.

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Aug 2006

04

Open Skies, Open Source and Open Portals..

Back at the JavaOne 2006 Conference, Sun announced that it was furthering it's commitment to Open Source by stating that the Sun Java System Portal Server will be among the next set of products that will transition from Closed Source to Open Source. This is part of the overall plan to do so for all of Sun's Software products portfolio, including middleware.

So today is a big step that shows commitment to delivering on that promise; the first core infrastructure component of the Sun Portal is now out there on java.net --
The Enterprise-class Portlet Container Open Source Project

Check out Deepak's blog articulating exactly what is available today, what are the future plans for the project, and how folks can join and participate in the community.

This is an incremental first step in opening up the entire Sun Portal Platform and moving it to a truly "open development" model. Please stay tuned as the team diligently works on getting the other components out there. We look forward to your participation. And to the sharing and learning..


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