uPortal
System Architecture
System Requirements
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Microsoft Windows
Solaris
Linux
Mac OS X
Software Requirements
• Sun JDK 1.3 or above
• Ant 1.5.3 or above (Java build tool)
• Servlet Container/Engine compatible with
Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 API (Tomcat
3.3.2)
• JDBC Compliant Database (Hypersonic
SQL)
Browser Compatibility
• Netscape 4 and above
• Internet Explorer 4 and above
• Mozilla 5 and above
J2EE
• The portal architecture can take
advantage of the J2EE services provided
by the Web Container.
• Can use JMS, JTA as available
• Can handle Applets, Servlets, JSP pages
Channel Types
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Custom
Applet
Image
Inline Frame
Portlet
RSS
Web Proxy
WSRP Consumer
XML Transformation
Custom Channel Creation
• Custom channels are written in Java:
CHelloWorld.java
• CHelloWorld.ssl (stylesheet)
• normal_explorer.xsl
• normal_netscape.xsl
• about.xsl (optional)
Portlet
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Packaged channel
Requires compiled java class(es)
Portlet library (lib/portlet-api-1.0.1.jar)
Web descriptor (portlet.xml)
When finished, package into a JAR file,
then rename to .war
Pushed Fragments
• A channel forced on a group of users
• Fragment owner has access to modify
settings of a fragment
Lessons Learned
• uPortal documentation refers to old versions,
and/or is incomplete
• PATH to the JDK is important
• JAVA_HOME is important to set!
• CLASSPATH is also necessary when using the
JDBC database connector JAR
• Copy and modify ant.bat (or ant.sh) for uportal
folder
• Use ‘ant deploy’ in uportal folder to recompile
java for your JDK!
MySQL caveat
• Documentation refers to older version of
MySQL and JDBC connector
• Current version (MySQL 4.1.11 and
MySQL-JDBC-Connector 3.1.8) uses
different naming schemes when you
modify dbloader.xml, names and versions
must be exact! (see JdbcExample1.java)