Portals and Portlets 2003
Rob Allan, CCLRC e-Science Centre
Michael Russell and Jason Novotny, EU GridLab Project
Workshop organised as part of the GCE-RG series for
GGF.
National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh 14-17th July 2003.
Portals and Portlets 2003
Some thoughts…
Portals are used for many purposes. Many have been hand crafted.
We want to compare generic technology.
• We are adding value to the Grid, Data and Information
infrastructure
• We re separating Presentation Layer from Content
• We are using Services
• We must take into account Security = Authentication + Role-based
Authorisation
• Many institutions have Firewalls
• We wish to contribute to international research in this area
• We will write up a report of this workshop + Web site
• Other related workshops focussing on middleware and services
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Portlets 2003
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Service-based Architecture
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Day 1
Day 1 - Focus on Portal Technologies - Start 10am, finish 6pm
The aim of this day is to show what portal user interfaces and generic
frameworks people are using so far.
Registration 9:30-10:00
Grid Portal session
10am - Richard Sinnott (Edinburgh) “Welcome to NeSC”
10:15 - Rob Allan (Daresbury Laboratory) "Introduction to the Workshop"
10:30 - Dennis Gannon (Indiana University) "The NCSA Alliance Portal and
the Plan for OGCE"
11:00 - Roberto Barbera (INFN) ``GENIUS Portal for the European Data
Grid''
11:30 – Bruno Franzini (EnginFrame) "Enginframe, the GridPortal in
Engineering and Industry: success cases"
12:00 – Kurt Mueller (SDSC), "NPACI HotPage Update"
Lunch – 12:30-13:30
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Day 1 (aftermoon)
13:30-14:00 – Dennis Gannon and Charles Severance (University of Michigan)
``NEESGrid, CHEF and the Grid“
14:00-14:30 - Michael Russell (Potsdam) "The GridLab Portal Project"
14:30-15:00 - Massimo Cafaro (ISUFI/CACT, University of Lecce) "Web Access to
the Grid using the Grid Resource Broker portal".
Tea break 15:30-16:00
JISC Portal session
16:00-16:30 - Chris Awre (JISC) "Feedback on the JISC Portals Programme"
16:30-17:00 - Sandy Buchanan (SCRAN, Edinburgh) - "The Pixus Image Portal project"
17:00-17:30 - Tim Stickland (EDINA) - "XGrain broker for cross-searching of
information isources"
17:30-18:00 - Eddie Boyle (EDINA) - "Go-Geo! Portal for geo-spatial discovery"
19:00 onwards – dinner at Howie’s Restaurant
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Day 2
Day 2 - Focus on Portlet Framework, start 10am, finish 6pm
Aim of this day is to show how portlets are used and how they can
encapsulate underlying functionality for Portals and PSEs.
10:00-10:30 - Jason Novotny (AEI) ``The GridSphere Architecture"
10:30-11:00 – Ruxandra Bondarescu (AEI) ``Application Portals''
Coffee break and posters – 11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00 – Tomixlav Urban and Eric Roberts (University of Texas)
``HotPage Portlet Development at TACC"
12:00-12:30 - Tomislav Urban (University of Texas) "GridPort 3.0 Plans
Lunch – 12:30-13:30
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Day 2 (afternoon)
13:30-14:00 - Maciej Bogdanski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking
Center) "PROGRESS Experience with Sun One Portal Framework"
14:00-14:30 - Francisco Pinto, Mike Fraser and Sebastian Rahtz (Research
Technologies/ Subject Portals Project, University of
Oxford) "Portlet Framework+Standards=Functionality Freedom"
14:30-15:00 - Robert Sherratt (Hull) "The uPortal Framework and Channels"
Tea break 15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30 - Speaker tba (), ``TACC Portlet Demonstration'‘
16:30-18:00 – Mark Baker (University of Portsmouth) - Discussion on Portal
and Portlet Frameworks
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Day 3
Day 3 - Focus on Portal Services for PSEs, start 10am, finish 6pm
The aim of this day is to consider re-usable architectures, common
components and underlying Web and Grid services.
10:00-10:30 - Andrew Richards and Rob Allan (Daresbury Laboratory) ``Grid
Portal Services in the IeSE Integrated e-Science Environment''
10:30-11:00 - Rik Tyer and Glen Drinkwater (Daresbury Laboratory) ``Data
Management Portal Services in IeSE''
Coffee break and posters – 11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00 - Stephen Pickles (University of Manchester) ``Desktop
services and the GRENADE project''
12:00-12:30 - Jason Novotny "The GridSphere Portlet Service Model"
Lunch – 12:30-13:30
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Day 3 (afternoon)
13:30-14:00 - Maciej Bogdanski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking
Center) "The PROGRESS Grid Service Provider"
14:00-14:30 - David Walker (University of Cardiff) ``Workflow services,
Triana etc.''
14:30-15:00 - Tomislav Urban (University of Texas) "The Grid Portal
Information Repository (GPIR) System."
Tea break 15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30 - Murtaza Gulamali (Imperial College, London) - "ICENI Inside:
Exposing the OGSA through a portal"
16:30-17:00 - Geoffrey Fox and Marlon Pierce (Indiana) ``Portal
Components for Distributed Collaboration''
17:00-18:00- Matthew Dovey (University of Oxford) - Discussion of Portal
services and WSRP: The purpose of this TC is to develop a Web services
standard that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other intermediary
Web applications that aggregate content, and applications from disparate
sources.
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Day 4
Day 4 - Practical Sessions, start 10am, finish 4pm
Aim of this day is to give practical demonstrations of some of the
technology discussed in the previous days.
10:00-14:00 - Oliver Wehrens, Michael Russell and Jason Novotny (GridLab
Project) Tutorials on Building Portlets using the GridSphere Framework:
o "Installing the GridSphere Portlet Framework"
o "Portlet Development 101: Writing a Simple Portlet"
o "Advanced Portlet Development using the GridSphere model“
Coffee will be available around 11am and lunch will be served 12:30-13:30
14:00-15:00 - Practical demonstrations on how to use GRB and its libraries in
several application contexts (Remote Sensing, Biomedical Imaging,
Climate Modelling, etc).
15:00-16:00- Practical demonstrations of HPCPortal, InfoPortal and
DataPortal
Tea available 15:30-16:00
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