JBoss Portal Server Development电子书

JBoss Portal Server Development

Table of Contents

JBoss Portal Server Development

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code for the book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Portals and Portal Servers

Portals

Why portals?

Types of portals

Function-based portals

Vertical portal

Horizontal portal

User-based portals

B2B portal

B2C portal

B2E portal

Portal servers

Portlets and portlet container

Constructing a view

Portal specification and WSRP

Servlets and portlets

Summary

2. Getting Started with JBoss Portal

JBoss portal server

Features

Technology and Architecture

Security and Single Sign On

Supported Standards

Portal and Portlet Container

Content Management System

Installing the server

Getting the software

System requirements

Installation

JBoss portal packaged with JBoss application server

JBoss portal binary without the server

Building JBoss portal from source

Configuration

Changing the context root

Changing the portal port

Setting email service

Configuring proxies

Working with the portal

Getting started

Creating our first portal page

Summary

3. Saying Hello with a Portlet

Portal page

JSR-168 and JSR-286 — Java portlet specification

Portal URL

Portlet modes

Window states

A Hello World portlet

Portlet development environment

Portlet package structure

Writing the code

Application descriptors

portlet.xml

portlet-instances.xml

sayhello-object.xml

web.xml

Building the application

Deploying the application

Accessing the page and portal URL

Summary

4. Managing the View

The Presentation tier in portals

Using Java Server Pages

Archive package structure with JSP

Writing the code

Portlet class

JSPs and portlet tags

Application descriptors

Building the application

Deploying the application

Using Java Server Faces

JSR -301 Portlet Bridge

Package structure with JSF

Application descriptors

Building the application

Deploying the application

Using JBoss Seam

Building a sample application: an intranet portal

Introduction

Creating the MyCompany portal

A JSP portlet

Summary

5. Personalizing Our Portal Experience

Personalization and customization

Personalizing the portal

Personalization models

User profile-based

Rules-based

Collaborative filtering

Personalized interface

Layouts

Creating layouts

Using the layout JSP tags

Configuring layouts

Themes

Defining themes

Configuring themes

RenderSets

Using RenderSets

Custom development

Modifying header.jsp

Creating new JSPs

Modifying tabs.jsp

Personalized content

Access-level based portlets

Preference-based portlets

Analytics-based portlets

Customizing the portal

Setting preferences

Internationalization and localization

Drag-and-drop content

Usability settings

Summary

6. Portals and AJAX

Rich user interfaces and AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML or AJAX

AJAX in JBoss portal

JSR-168 AJAX limitations

JSR-286 and AJAX

Developing an AJAX portlet

The front-end

The server-side portlet

Deployment

AJAX support for markup

Layout markup

Renderer markup

AJAX support for content

Drag-and-Drop

Partial content refresh

Portal object configuration

Portlet configuration

Constraints in implementing partial refresh

Inconsistent session attributes

Non-AJAX interaction

Considerations for AJAX implementations

Global variables

State management

Visual cues

Summary

7. Databases and Portal

Database use in portal

Hibernate

JBoss portal server using Hibernate

Hibernate configuration for portal features

Content management system database storage

Building portlets using Hibernate

A persistent portlet

Configuring and using Hibernate

Creating the persistent class

Setting up database

Creating the mappings

Configuring Hibernate

Creating the Data Access Object class

The Portlet class and configuration

Building and deployment

Summary

8. Managing Content in Portal

Content management systems

Adding content to portal

Adding content to portal pages

Editing content

The CMS portlet

CMS service configuration

Content storage configuration

100% database storage

100% filesystem storage

Mixed Storage

CMS Interceptors

Localization

CMS workflow service

Activation and configuration

Summary

9. Portal Security

Portal security

Portal objects security

Using the management console

Using configuration files

User security and access control

Authentication

Authorization

User and role management

The portal permission

The authorization provider

Making a programmatic security check

Configuring an authorization domain

LDAP configuration

Single sign-on

Identity management

Managing users using admin console

Identity portlets

Captcha support

Lost and reset passwords

jBPM-based user registration

Configuration

Identity management API

Content management system security

CMS security configuration

CMS super user

CMS security console

Summary

10. Web Services and Portlets

Remoting in portal servers

Web Service for Remote Portlets

WSRP actors

Portlet

Producer

Consumer

End user

Process flow

WSRP Use Profiles

Producer levels

Base

Simple

Complex

Consumer levels

Base

Simple

Medium

Complex

WSRP in JBoss portal

WSRP implementation support

Enabling remoting in portlets

Configuring WSRP producer

Producer configuration

Customization

Configuring WSRP consumer

Remote producer configuration using Admin portlet

Remote producer configuration using the WSRP producer descriptor

Managing consumer configuration

Instantiation of a remote portlet

Summary

11. Portlet Coordination and Filters

Going from JSR-168 to JSR-286

Portlet coordination and inter-portlet communication

Portlet events

Public render parameters

Portlet coordination in JBoss portal

JSR-168 inter-portlet communication

Coding listener and portlets

Configuring the listener and portlets

Service descriptor

Portal descriptor

Deploying portlets

Portlet events-based coordination

Creating and retrieving events

Configuring events

Deploying portlets

Public render parameter-based coordination

Coding public parameters

Configuring public render parameters

Deploying portlets

Additional JBoss coordination features

Implicit and explicit coordination

Explicit coordination configuration

Event wiring

Parameter binding

Alias binding

Portlet filters

Creating the filter

Configuring the filter

Mapping the filter

Deployment

Summary

Epilogue

Index