uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 uPortal RC2 Preview Moving on Up Reviewing current work and future plans Standardizing the framework Simplifying deployment Reducing redundancy

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Feature Review New Theme with Drag & Drop –Light weight & clean Groups and Permissions integration –Clones of the uP2 channels Simple Layout Management –Template user support

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Feature Review Bookmarkable tabs –Back button support –Flexible URL syntax Functional Portlets –Web Proxy, XSLT, IFrame, Bookmarks –uPortal 2 IChannel adapter

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 New Development Maven 2 Pluto 1.1 Hibernate LDAP Authentication Groups Manager Portlet Permissions Manager Portlet Acegi ties for permissions

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Maven 2 Common project structure Modular code base Dependency management Emphasizes unit testing EAR Generation –Multi-container deployment –Standard packaging for portal and portlets

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Pluto 1.1 Removed 20,000 lines of code –Result was simplification of plumbing –Lighter weight integration More extensible architecture Great positioning for JSR-286 Aligns us with the Pluto community

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Hibernate Persistence Greater database compatibility Schema generation Caching layer reduces queries Data integrity via constraints Simplifies evolving objects Reduces custom code

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 LDAP Authentication Out of the box LDAP example Example for implementers Runs as a separate web-app

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Groups & Permissions Portlets Re-implemented as portlets Slightly re-worked user interfaces MVC style code base Will be looked at for uP2

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Acegi and GaP Uses Spring AOP support Adding permission checks is easy Removes coded permissions logic Simplifies the code

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Data Import/Export Export portal configuration to XML Export specific pieces or everything With Hibernate schema creation removes the need for DBLoader Will help provide upgrade paths Not meant for human configuration

uPortal 3 RC2 PreviewJA-SIG Conference, Summer 2007 Getting Involved Roadmap Bar Camp –1:45 on Wednesday