uPortal Roadmap Patches, evolution, and revolution Andrew Petro, Yale University Eric Dalquist, Unicon

uPortal Releases uPortal Major Minor Patch

Types of releases Patch releases Patch releases Bug fixes, backwards-compatible Bug fixes, backwards-compatible Every 1-2 months Every 1-2 months Easy to upgrade Easy to upgrade Minor releases Minor releases New features and possible database changes New features and possible database changes Every 6-12 months Every 6-12 months Not trivial to upgrade Not trivial to upgrade Major releases Major releases Extensive changes Extensive changes Every 2-4 years Every 2-4 years Difficult to upgrade Difficult to upgrade

Marching towards a particular release Nightly build Nightly build “Milestone” “Milestone” Alpha Alpha Beta Beta Release Candidate Release Candidate General Audience Release General Audience Release

This Presentation uPortal 2.x Roadmap uPortal 2.x Roadmap uPortal 3.x Roadmap uPortal 3.x Roadmap Questions and Answers Questions and Answers

uPortal 2.x Roadmap 2-4-patches2-5-patches Towards 2.6 and beyond

What’s a Roadmap? Happened. What’s in it? Happened. What’s in it? Plans Plans Plans Plans Opportunities Opportunities Revolution Revolution

uPortal Evolutionary improvement Incremental new features, Takes some work to upgrade Released 26 May

2.5.0 features DLM DLM Better JSR-168 support Better JSR-168 support Require / embrace JDK 1.4 Require / embrace JDK 1.4 Chaining throwables Chaining throwables Support JDK 1.5 Support JDK 1.5 Spring Spring DOM3 / JAXP 1.3 DOM3 / JAXP 1.3 Threading / Concurrency library Threading / Concurrency library 2.5.0

DLM Alternative to ALM Alternative to ALM Pushed fragments managed as layouts of “fragment owners” Pushed fragments managed as layouts of “fragment owners” 2.5.0

What is DLM? User’s Layout Personal Preferences Declarative Configuration Fragment Owners

Library Tab 2.5.0

Library Tab Plus 2.5.0

Simple User Layout Management PersonDirectory Template Assignment TemplatePersonal Layout 2.5.0

Simple User Layout Management PersonDirectory Template Assignment TemplatePersonal Layout 2.5.0

“Distributed” User Layout Management PersonDirectory “Template” Assignment Dynamic “Template”Personal Layout 2.5.0

“Distributed” User Layout Management Person Directory Template Assignment Dynamic TemplatePersonal Layout 2.5.0

SLM? ALM? DLM? Currently: SLMALMDLM Where we’re going: SLM CLM

JSR-168 support improvements Expiration caching Expiration caching Redirects Redirects Window state changing in processAction Window state changing in processAction 2.5.0

JDK 1.4 / Chaining Throwables NullPointerException ChannelRenderingException PortalException 2.5.0

JDK 1.5 support Compiles and runs under JDK / JRE 1.5 Compiles and runs under JDK / JRE

Spring Declarative configuration Declarative configuration That’s about Java Objects, rather than about Strings That’s about Java Objects, rather than about Strings The sun is setting on static factories that read class names from portal.properties. The sun is setting on static factories that read class names from portal.properties. PersonDirectory as the first Springified component PersonDirectory as the first Springified component 2.5.0

uPortal The next 2-4-patches deliverable Backwards compatible conservative fixes, enhancement Sharing of fixes for released code

Adoption of threading library Backport-util-concurrent Backport-util-concurrent 2.4.3

Minor bugfixes 2.4.3

2.5.1 Backwards-compatible improvement. Bugfixes

uPortal 2.6 And beyond 2.6.0

uPortal CVS head portal patches 2-5-patches Head … 2.5.1

Will there be a uP 2.6? Are there incremental improvements that could be made beyond uP 2.5 that would make you want to deploy 2.6? Are there incremental improvements that could be made beyond uP 2.5 that would make you want to deploy 2.6? So much so that there are developers, resources interested in working to make this happen? So much so that there are developers, resources interested in working to make this happen? Then it makes sense to produce uP 2.6. Then it makes sense to produce uP

Some uP 2.6 ideas Continue to improve Layout Management Continue to improve Layout Management Stability, Stability, Stability Stability, Stability, Stability Have we stopped leaking memory yet? Have we stopped leaking memory yet? Skinning improvements, CSS/Divs as default example Skinning improvements, CSS/Divs as default example Groups and Permissions Groups and Permissions More Spring More Spring … 2.6.0

Serializable Sessions And sessions worth serializing And sessions worth serializing Beyond load balancing and clustering Beyond load balancing and clustering State-retaining failover * State-retaining failover * (For channels written to take advantage) (For channels written to take advantage)

JIRA for project planning Identify desired improvements Identify desired improvements Schedule for 2.6 Schedule for 2.6 “Assign” resources “Assign” resources Track to completion Track to completion 2.6.0

Lather, Rinse, Repeat Continue to incrementally improve uPortal 2.x so long as there’s interest and resources. Continue to incrementally improve uPortal 2.x so long as there’s interest and resources

At some point Interest in continuing to develop uP 2.x wanes Interest in continuing to develop uP 2.x wanes Because there’s something better to work on Because there’s something better to work on And now, for uPortal 3 roadmap… And now, for uPortal 3 roadmap… 2.6.0