1. Overview of Web Portals Jason Cook

2. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal2 What is a Portal? A web site that provides specialized capabilities for visitors. Designed to use distributed applications, different amounts of middleware and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources.

3. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal3 Portals Available uPortal Sakai WebSphere WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets)

4. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal4 uPortal Free, shareable Uses Java, XML, JSP and J2EE Built by a collaborative effort of JA-SIG (Java in Administration Special Interest Group) Made very easy to get up and running with a single download, but recommended that real production users use the source release

5. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal5 uPortal Relatively easy to get started but need Tomcat, J2EE and Ant experience Was going to try myself but no Ant on Redcloud; as I wanted to see just how easy this would be to setup.

6. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal6 Sakai Aims to create a Collaboration and Learning Environment for higher education. Originally made by University of Michigan and Indiana University to replicate and extend their Course Management System (CMS). Ideally uses existing services. For new production uPortal is a better choice

7. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal7 Sakai As it uses JSR-168 the use of context, access control, rich APIs is not possible. JSR-168 is rather limited to Portlet->Portal interaction with no mention of using other APIs, which means they have to be hacked in.

8. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal8 WebSphere (IBM) Commercial Product Two versions: enable and extend Has more robust features in analysis and Return on Investment (ROI)

9. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal9 WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) “Standardizing presentation-oriented Web services for use by aggregating intermediaries, such as portals” OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Lots of companies involved (IBM, Microsoft, etc.)

10. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal10 Conclusion Not many to chose from even commercially Replaceable with Web Services or other content management systems. Largely Academic use.

11. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal11 References uPortal: http://www.uportal.org/http://www.uportal.org/ JA-SIG: http://www.ja-sig.org/http://www.ja-sig.org/ Sakai: http://sakaiproject.org/http://sakaiproject.org/ uPortal vs. Sakai: http://www.sakaiproject.org/presentations/JASIG_ Sakai_UpdateFinalOnly.ppt#43 http://www.sakaiproject.org/presentations/JASIG_ Sakai_UpdateFinalOnly.ppt#43 OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.orghttp://www.oasis-open.org /committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp WebSphere (IBM): http://www-306.ibm.com/http://www-306.ibm.com/ software/genservers/portal/

12. 5/8/2006jfcook/Web Portal12 Questions~ ?