uPortal: Hands On Mark Mazelin Cedarville University

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Development Environment Windows XP SP2 Eclipse with Web Tools Platform and Tomcat plugin 3.1 uPortal Sun’s JDK Update 7 Tomcat Ant Mysql

Resources uPortal home page: uPortal wiki: uPortal summer conference: uPortal 101:  sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/uPortal sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/uPortal+101

Setup The latest released uPortal is installed on your machine with the following changes:  Changed database to mysql  Changed log file location

Let’s Go! Start > Run > C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe Tomcat > Start Tomcat  Login with your guest account

InitPortal Open Ant Perspective Double-click dbtest (verify Console output) Double-click initportal Tomcat > Restart Tomcat

Logging [uportal]\properties\Logger.properties

Configuration and Customization Integrate your authentication system Integrate your look-and-feel Integrate your channels

Database Configuration The following databases are supported out of the box:  HypersonicSQL  MySQL Configuration  Oracle Configuration  MSSQL with the JTDS JDBC Driver  PostgreSQL Configuration  DB2  Sybase SQL Server

uPortal User Attr/Dir Configuration PersonDirectory was refactored for uPortal 2.5 to be backed by Spring to wire together its implementation LDAP JDBC

Groups Management Local Group Service (db driven) PAGS JIT LDAP LDAP FileSystem

Channels Built-in channel types uPortal IChannel  JSR-168 portlets 

Layout Management and Content Provision “Many sites have deployed portals using Aggregated Layout Manager but the future uPortal direction is to use DLM so we recommend new installations start with it.” DLM: Distributed Layout Management  ALM: Aggregate Layout Management SLM: Simple Layout Management

Stats Recording In uPortal , the stats recorder is a Spring- configured IStatsRecorder instance