JBoss Portal Server Development Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Portals and Portal Servers
Chapter 2: Getting Started with JBoss Portal
Chapter 3: Saying Hello with a Portlet
Chapter 4: Managing the View
Chapter 5: Personalizing Our Portal Experience
Chapter 6: Portals and AJAX
Chapter 7: Databases and Portal
Chapter 8: Managing Content in Portal
Chapter 9: Portal Security
Chapter 10: Web Services and Portlets
Chapter 11: Portlet Coordination and Filters
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Portals and Portal Servers
  • Portals
  • Why portals?
  • Types of portals
    • Function-based portals
      • Vertical portal
      • Horizontal portal
    • User-based portals
      • B2B portal
      • B2C portal
      • B2E portal
  • Portal servers
    • Portlets and portlet container
    • Constructing a view
    • Portal specification and WSRP
    • Servlets and portlets
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started with JBoss Portal
  • JBoss portal server
    • Features
  • Installing the server
    • Getting the software
    • System requirements
    • Installation
      • JBoss portal packaged with JBoss application server
      • JBoss portal binary without the server
      • Building JBoss portal from source
  • Configuration
    • Changing the context root
    • Changing the portal port
    • Setting email service
    • Configuring proxies
  • Working with the portal
    • Getting started
    • Creating our first portal page
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Saying Hello with a Portlet
  • Portal page

• JSR-168 and JSR-286—Java portlet specification
  • Portal URL
  • Portlet modes
  • Window states

• A Hello World portlet
  • Portlet development environment
  • Portlet package structure
  • Writing the code
  • Application descriptors
    • portlet.xml
    • portlet-instances.xml
    • sayhello-object.xml
    • web.xml
  • Building the application
  • Deploying the application
  • Accessing the page and portal URL

• Summary

• Chapter 4: Managing the View
  • The Presentation tier in portals
  • Using Java Server Pages
    • Archive package structure with JSP
    • Writing the code
      • Portlet class
      • JSPs and portlet tags
    • Application descriptors
    • Building the application
    • Deploying the application
  • Using Java Server Faces
    • JSR -301 Portlet Bridge
    • Package structure with JSF
    • Application descriptors
    • Building the application
    • Deploying the application
  • Using JBoss Seam
  • Building a sample application: an intranet portal
    • Introduction
    • Creating the MyCompany portal
    • A JSP portlet
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Personalizing Our Portal Experience
  • Personalization and customization
  • Personalizing the portal
    • Personalization models
      • User profile-based
      • Rules-based
      • Collaborative filtering
    • Personalized interface
      • Layouts
      • Themes
      • RenderSets
      • Custom development
    • Personalized content
      • Access-level based portlets
      • Preference-based portlets
      • Analytics-based portlets
  • Customizing the portal
    • Setting preferences
    • Drag-and-drop content
    • Usability settings
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Portals and AJAX
  • Rich user interfaces and AJAX
    • Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or AJAX
  • AJAX in JBoss portal
  • JSR-168 AJAX limitations
  • JSR-286 and AJAX
  • Developing an AJAX portlet
    • The front-end
    • The server-side portlet
    • Deployment
  • AJAX support for markup
    • Layout markup
    • Renderer markup
  • AJAX support for content
    • Drag-and-Drop
    • Partial content refresh
      • Portal object configuration
      • Portlet configuration
      • Constraints in implementing partial refresh
  • Considerations for AJAX implementations
    • Global variables
    • State management
    • Visual cues
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Databases and Portal
  • Database use in portal
  • Hibernate
  • JBoss portal server using Hibernate
    • Hibernate configuration for portal features
    • Content management system database storage
  • Building portlets using Hibernate
    • A persistent portlet
      • Configuring and using Hibernate
      • Creating the persistent class
      • Setting up database
      • Creating the mappings
      • Configuring Hibernate
      • Creating the Data Access Object class
    • The Portlet class and configuration
      • Building and deployment
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Managing Content in Portal
  • Content management systems
    • Adding content to portal
    • Adding content to portal pages
    • Editing content
    • CMS service configuration
    • Content storage configuration
      • 100% database storage
      • 100% filesystem storage
      • Mixed Storage
    • CMS Interceptors
    • Localization
    • CMS workflow service
      • Activation and configuration
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Portal Security
  • Portal security
  • Portal objects security
    • Using the management console
    • Using configuration files
  • User security and access control
    • Authentication
    • Authorization
      • User and role management
      • The portal permission
      • The authorization provider
      • Making a programmatic security check
      • Configuring an authorization domain
    • LDAP configuration
    • Single sign-on
  • Identity management
    • Managing users using admin console
    • Identity portlets
      • Captcha support
      • Lost and reset passwords
      • jBPM-based user registration
      • Configuration
    • Identity management API
  • Content management system security
    • CMS security configuration

• Summary

• Chapter 10: Web Services and Portlets
  • Remoting in portal servers
  • Web Service for Remote Portlets
    • WSRP actors
      • Portlet
      • Producer
      • Consumer
      • End user
    • Process flow
  • WSRP Use Profiles
    • Producer levels
      • Base
      • Simple
      • Complex
    • Consumer levels
      • Base
      • Simple
      • Medium
      • Complex
  • WSRP in JBoss portal
    • WSRP implementation support
  • Enabling remoting in portlets
  • Configuring WSRP producer
    • Producer configuration
      • Customization
  • Configuring WSRP consumer
    • Remote producer configuration using Admin portlet
    • Remote producer configuration using the WSRP producer descriptor
    • Managing consumer configuration
  • Instantiation of a remote portlet
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Portlet Coordination and Filters
  • Going from JSR-168 to JSR-286
  • Portlet coordination and inter-portlet communication
    • Portlet events
    • Public render parameters

• Portlet coordination in JBoss portal
  • JSR-168 inter-portlet communication
    • Coding listener and portlets
    • Configuring the listener and portlets
    • Deploying portlets
  • Portlet events-based coordination
    • Creating and retrieving events
    • Configuring events
    • Deploying portlets
  • Public render parameter-based coordination
    • Coding public parameters
    • Configuring public render parameters
    • Deploying portlets
  • Additional JBoss coordination features
    • Implicit and explicit coordination
    • Explicit coordination configuration

• Portlet filters
  • Creating the filter
  • Configuring the filter
  • Mapping the filter
  • Deployment

• Summary
• Epilogue

• Index

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