1. uPortal: Hands On Mark Mazelin mazelinm@cedarville.edu Cedarville University

2. Get your hands off my portal or How to cram a half-day workshop into 1 hour and 45 minutes

3. Development Environment Windows XP SP2 Eclipse 3.1.2 with Web Tools Platform 1.0.2 and Tomcat plugin 3.1 uPortal 2.5.2 Sun’s JDK 1.5.0 Update 7 Tomcat 5.0.28 Ant 1.6.5 Mysql 5.0.22

4. Resources uPortal home page: www.uportal.orgwww.uportal.org uPortal wiki: www.ja-sig.org/wikiwww.ja-sig.org/wiki uPortal summer conference: uPortal 101:  http://www.ja- sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/uPortal+101 http://www.ja- sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/uPortal+101

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

6. Let’s Go! Start > Run > C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe Tomcat > Start Tomcat http://www.google.com/  Login with your guest account http://localhost:8080/

7. InitPortal Open Ant Perspective Double-click dbtest (verify Console output) Double-click initportal Tomcat > Restart Tomcat http://localhost:8080/uPortal

8. Logging [uportal]\properties\Logger.properties

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

10. 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 http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/Database+Configuration

11. uPortal User Attr/Dir Configuration PersonDirectory was refactored for uPortal 2.5 to be backed by Spring to wire together its implementation LDAP JDBC http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/PersonDirectory

12. Groups Management Local Group Service (db driven) PAGS JIT LDAP LDAP FileSystem http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/GAP/Home

13. Channels Built-in channel types uPortal IChannel  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/How+To+Write+a+uPortal+Channel+for+uPortal+2.x JSR-168 portlets  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/Hello+World+Portlets http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/ChannelAuthoring

14. 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  http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/DLM+Administration+Guide http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/DLM+Administration+Guide ALM: Aggregate Layout Management SLM: Simple Layout Management

15. Stats Recording In uPortal 2.5.1+, the stats recorder is a Spring- configured IStatsRecorder instance http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/StatsRecorder