1. Interfacing with the MyRutgers Portal to send RU Alerts Lars Sorensen biglars@cs.rutgers.edu

2. MyRutgers Portal – http://my.rutgers.edu/portal/

4. RU Alerts

7. How Do I Post an RU Alert?

8. You use two Web Services exposed by the MyRutgers Portal. One authenticates you and the other lets you post an Alert.

9. What is a Web Service?

10. Remote Procedures with XML Uses Open Protocols and commonly used, accessible transport systems Slowly becoming a standard HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI

11. A Web Service transaction XML HTTP SOAP WSDL UDDI

12. Service Oriented Architecture

13. What tools do we use? J2EE.NET Perl, Python AJAX

14. Now we know what Web Services are, how do we use them for RU Alerts?

15. CAS Authentication Web Service Exposed method that takes an ID and a password as parameters and returns a “Ticket” Alerts Publisher Web Service Methods taking your ticket, student ID and the message for your RU Alert Each has a WSDL Document on the web…

16. RU Alert Client Software Creation

17. Henry has an overdue library book How do we use the web services client software and give Henry an RU Alert in his MyRutgers profile? Say Henry’s NetID is hrutgers…

18. RU Alert Process Workflow

21. Voila!

23. Further Information biglars@cs.rutgers.edu http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/lcsr/projects/rualerts/ Log into RU Portal and read the help docs! THANK YOU!