uPortal: Hands On

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uPortal Hands On

• Mark Mazelin
• mazelinm_at_cedarville.edu
• Cedarville University

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Get your hands off my portal

• or
• How to cram a half-day workshop into 1 hour and
  45 minutes

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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
• Suns JDK 1.5.0 Update 7
• Tomcat 5.0.28
• Ant 1.6.5
• Mysql 5.0.22

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Resources

• uPortal home page www.uportal.org
• uPortal wiki www.ja-sig.org/wiki
• uPortal summer conference
• uPortal 101
• http//www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JCON/uPortal10
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Setup

• The latest released uPortal is installed on your
  machine with the following changes
• Changed database to mysql
• Changed log file location

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Lets Go!

• Start gt Run gt C\eclipse\eclipse.exe
• Tomcat gt Start Tomcat
• http//www.google.com/
• Login with your guest account
• http//localhost8080/

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InitPortal

• Open Ant Perspective
• Double-click dbtest
• (verify Console output)
• Double-click initportal
• Tomcat gt Restart Tomcat
• http//localhost8080/uPortal

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Logging

• uportal\properties\Logger.properties

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Configuration and Customization

• Integrate your authentication system
• Integrate your look-and-feel
• Integrate your channels

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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/DatabaseCo
  nfiguration

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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/PersonDirec
  tory

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Groups Management

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

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Channels

• Built-in channel types
• uPortal IChannel
• http//www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/HowToWrit
  eauPortalChannelforuPortal2.x
• JSR-168 portlets
• http//www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/PLT/HelloWorld
  Portlets
• http//www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/ChannelAuth
  oring

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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/DLMAdminis
  trationGuide
• ALM Aggregate Layout Management
• SLM Simple Layout Management

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Stats Recording

• In uPortal 2.5.1, the stats recorder is a
  Spring-configured IStatsRecorder instance
• http//www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/UPC/StatsRecord
  er