JBoss Portal Server Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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