GateIn Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
• Introduction
• Installing GateIn from a binary package
• Building and installing GateIn from the source code
• Configuring the content storage
• Configuring GateIn to send e-mails
• Running GateIn on your machine
• Setting up the development environment

• Chapter 2: Managing Portal Contents Using the GUI
• Introduction
• Managing portals
• Managing portal pages
• Managing registered portlets
• Managing the navigation tree
• Managing the dashboard

• Chapter 3: Managing Portal Contents Using XML
• Introduction
• Managing portals using XML
• Managing portal pages using XML
• Managing registered portlets using XML
• Managing the navigation tree using XML
• Wrapping it all up in a separate EAR

• Chapter 4: Managing Portal Users
• Introduction
• Managing users
• Managing groups
• Assigning users to groups
• Integrating with an existing LDAP store
• Setting an automatic membership after user creation
• Adding a custom field in the user profile
• Integrating with Web SSO
• Integrating with SPNEGO for Desktop SSO

• Chapter 5: Securing Portal Contents
• Introduction
• Securing portals
• Securing with JBoss AS
• Securing with Tomcat
• Choosing the JAAS modules
• Creating a login page
• Synchronizing users
• Securing pages
• Securing categories
• Securing applications
• Securing portlets

• Chapter 6: Developing Portlets
• Introduction
• Creating a portlet with the Portlet 2.0 Specification
• Using an action to pass form parameters
• Using the user locale to localize portlet content
• Communicating between portlets using Public Render Parameters
• Communicating between portlets using events

• Chapter 7: Developing Using Components API
• Introduction
• Getting started with WebUI
• Creating views
• Handling different skins in a portlet
• Adding the JavaScript resources to the portlet
• Handling different locales in a portlet

• Chapter 8: Migrating from Existing Portals
• Introduction
• Migrating a transactional portlet
• Migrating an authenticated portlet
• Migrating a portlet that uses JCR
• Importing a skin from an existing website

• Chapter 9: Managing Gadgets
• Introduction
• Importing existing gadgets
• Removing gadgets
• Creating gadgets
• Changing the category of a gadget
• Resizing gadgets
• Making the gadget a portlet
• Setting user preferences

• Chapter 10: Frameworks in a Portal
• Introduction
• Creating a JSF 2 portlet
• Using jQuery in a portlet
• Using portlet events in JSF 2
• Creating a RichFaces 4 portlet

• Chapter 11: Managing Portal Resources with the Management Component
• Introduction
• Deploying the CLI to GateIn
• Retrieving a managed resource with RESTful Interface
• Exporting a portal page with the CLI
• Removing a portal page from the navigation
• Using the default portal as the foundation for a new portal site

• Chapter 12: Managing Documents Using External ECM Systems
• Introduction
• Creating a portlet to integrate a CMIS repository
• Creating a portlet to integrate JBoss ModeShape
• Creating a portlet to integrate Apache JackRabbit
• Creating a portlet to integrate Alfresco using Spring WebScripts

• Index