Web Portal Project

Web Portal Started in the late 90’s Single point of access Key types of portals Corporate Enterprise Consumer based Personal/Mobil 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

What is a Web Portal ? Web portals are websites that collect information on same topic. Web portals provide a single point of access to a variety of content and core services. Web portals may be based on a specific city or a interest area. Web portals provide advantage over homepages because they can offer user specific, customized views. 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Modules description Admin users handle the website as well as the database. Global users search for required information. Registered users will have a unique user-id by which they login into their personal information. 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Data flow diagram Global users Admin Web portal Registered users

Deployment diagram

Architecture 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Web Portals 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

System Requirements Microsoft Windows, XP, 2003 server PC with 2GB Harddisk and 256 MB RAM Solaris Linux Mac OS X 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Software Requirements Sun JDK 1.3 or above Ant 1.5.3 or above (Java build tool) Servlet Container/Engine compatible with Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 API (Tomcat 3.3.2) JDBC Compliant Database (Hypersonic SQL) ASP.NET, C#.NET 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Browser Compatibility Netscape 4 and above Internet Explorer 4 and above Mozilla 5 and above 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

System Info OS: Fedora Core 3 (2.6.11 kernel) Processor/Memory: Pentium 4, 256 MB Browser: Mozilla Firefox v1.0.3 uPortal Quick Start v2.4.2 JDK v1.4.2 & v1.5.0 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Configuration Download zip file Extract Set JAVA_HOME, PATH env variables Start up HSQL server and Tomcat server On browser, http://localhost:8080/uPortal Login as admin, developer, demo, student, faculty, staff 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Limitations Web Portals are required to have a fusion grid. org alias in addition to their primary name Portals require presence of an SSL-enabled Apache web server and host X.509 certificates listed with the ADS 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

Conclusion •Straight-forward implementation to authenticate, authorize and provide a proxy credential for the user Federated disparate web sites with single sign-on authentications with FusionGrid credentials One Two Portal securely launched OneTwo as a FusionGrid service Presented a convenient and intuitive web interface for input preparations of FusionGrid code runs •Scientists have commenced usage of the portals Need to determine types of physics codes that can be ported to our portal framework Duration of six months to decide best usage of this technology 28 – Apr - 2005 Web Portal

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