The Open Source Answer to Expensive Closed Source Portals

Presented By: Wesley Hales

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Agenda

• Crowd Survey

• Introduction to GateIn

• Get the boring primer out of the way

• Amaze everyone with cool demos

• Talk about the JBoss Portlet Bridge

• more demos & possibly crowd UC

• Answer Questions

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Who Is Wesley Hales?

• Enjoys both UI and Backend development, along with pulling out what little hair is left.

• Founder of multiple open source projects

• Blog at wesleyhales.com

• Screen Caster on vimeo.com/wesleyhales

• Tweeter twitter.com/wesleyhales

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Portal Job ResultsIn Atlanta, Ga

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Demo

• Overview and Administrationhttp://vimeo.com/6438918

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Portals & PortletsWhat is a Portal?

• Windows that provideaccess to web applications and other information.

• Works across organizational boundaries to aggregate content coming from various web technologies: JSF, Seam, OpenSocial, Wicket, PHP, Struts...

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Portals & Portlets

Portlets

• Are managed by a portal/portlet container.

• Portlet windows are aggregated via a portalpage.

• A Portlet Application is also a Web Application. The Portlet Application may contain servlets and JSPs in addition to portlets. Portlets, servlets and JSPs may share information through their session.

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Portlets - Why the FUD?

• Portlets and their respective api have had quite a learning curve in the past, but as with everything else... it got better

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If you really want to know...

• Servlets vs. Portlets

• Wrapping your head around 2 requests.

• Portlets generate a page with multiple portlet windows that can be rendered multiple times.

• All links are generated by the portlet api

• Coordination - events and PRP’s

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Allows Businesses To...

• Quickly aggregate enterprise applications (both legacy and current)

• Easily administer employee roles, groups, and permissions

• Drastically reduce time-to-market with out of box tools and integration controls

• Run content, gadgets, forums, wiki, and social applications built by other companies - i.e. eXo

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JBoss & eXo Partnership

• Strategic partnership formed in 2009

• Plans...

• To make GateIn the leading OSS portal

• Balance feature-rich capabilities with lightweight flexibility and rock solid performance

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Features Compared• Normal Portal Features

Single Sign On Personalization

Dashboards Internationalization, Right-To-Left

Collaboration

Social Capabilities

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• Features

Features Compared

(Technical Standpoint)

Scalable and Modular

Merge of two mature projects that have been around for a while, JBoss

Portal and eXo Portal

Customizability and Personalization

Management and Metrics

Easy Creation of Virtual (multiple) portals at

runtime

PicketLink IDM - provides usage of different identity

stores like LDAP and RDBMS

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• Features

Features Compared

(Product Standpoint)

Extendable - As eXo has done with Knowledge Suite and Content ManagementGadgets & Mashups

Lightweight and Scalable

WYSIWYG Layout Editor

WSRP

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Demo

• Gadgetshttp://vimeo.com/6438918

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Extending GateIn• All products in eXo's

open source stack will be certified on the GateIn portal.

• Currently only a few of these are available in Alpha and Beta stages

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eXo Knowledge Suite

• Forums

• Enterprise grade - project based

• Advanced Moderation - lock, close approve

• Answers / QA

• Multi Language, Moderation, RSS

• FAQs

• Publish forged knowledge into FAQs

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Demo

• eXo Knowledge Suitehttp://vimeo.com/7693053

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eXo Collaboration Suite

• Provides a standard FB-like chat client, with private and public chat rooms

• Uses XMPP/Jabber protocol mapped to your LDAP directory

• This suite includes several applications all tied together:

• Mail, Calendar, and Address Book

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Demo

• eXo Collaboration Suitehttp://vimeo.com/7523906

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• Backed by JSR-301 and 329

• Allows you to run any JSF application as a portlet

• Hides the underlying portlet APIs so developers only need to worry about 1 application

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• The only bridge which supports running RichFaces and/or Seam applications

• Runs your app as both a portlet and servlet

• Could support other web frameworks like Wicket, GWT, etc...

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• BridgeAdmin Demo

• http://vimeo.com/8752541

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POCs

• Proof of Concepting with GateIn is straight forward

• You will need:

• GateIn Bundle with Tomcat or JBoss AS

• Possibly Portlet Bridge

• Archetypes

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• Seam Portlet Demo

• http://vimeo.com/7255033

• mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.portletbridge.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=seam-basic -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.0.CR1 -DgroupId=org.whatever.project -DartifactId=seamproject -Dversion=2.0.0.CR1 -DarchetypeRepository=http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/

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Getting Involved

• User Forums

• Articles & How Tos

• Jira - Add your enhancement or try to handle some created issues

• Contests - Skins, etc...

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Q&A

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Useful Links

• http://jboss.org/gatein

• http://jboss.org/portletbridge

• http://vimeo.com/wesleyhales/videos

• http://community.jboss.org/wiki/GateIn

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