1. uPortal Roadmap
uPortal Community Call
December 17, 2009

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• uPortal at the Jasig 2010 March Conference
• The uPortal Roadmap
• Getting Involved
• Questions

3. Introduction

4. uPortal Steering Committee
Elected by the Jasig membership
• Erik Olssen, University of California - Irvine
• Dwight Raum, The Johns Hopkins University
Selected by the uPortal developers
• Eric Dalquist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Jen Bourey, Unicon
Representing the Jasig Board
• Jim Helwig, University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair, board liason)
• Jonathan Markow, Jasig Executive Director (ex-officio member)

5. uPortal Community Calls
Sharing
Collaboration
Community
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6. Hold that thought…
Questions and
discussion at the end
Additional feedback
by email appreciated
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7. Jasig 2010
Conference

8. Jasig 2010 Conference
“Ten Years of Open Source Innovation”
March 8 - 10, 2010
Supplementary Seminars March 7th and 10th
Developer Days, March 11 – 12
Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA
Registration is open:
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/10spring/index.html

9. uPortal Presentations
• “uPortal Environment Management Clinic”
• “Content Management in uPortal: Two Case Studies”
• “ZotPortal: Integrating with Legacy Systems and
Planning for the Worst Case”
• “Implementing Multi-Level Navigation in uPortal”
• “Easy Portlet Development with Struts 2”

10. uPortal Presentations (cont.)
• “Rich Portlet Development”
• “Annotation-Based Spring Portlet MVC”
• “uPortal 3.2 and Beyond”
• “The Future of the Campus Portal”
• “uPortal Distributed Administration and Development”

11. uPortal Presentations
uPortal Supplementary Seminars
• “Implementing uPortal”
• “uPortal Migration: 3.0 and Beyond”
• “Developing JSR 286 Portlets”
• “uPortal Mobile Development”

12. Jasig 2010 Conference
Plus…
• uPortal BOFs
• uPortal Poster displays and demos
• jQuery Seminar
• Building accessible web apps
And…
• Plenty of opportunities to speak with colleagues and
experts!

13. uPortal Roadmap

14. uPortal 3.2
• Portlet Management
• Mobile Browsing
• CSS/JS Aggregation
• Config Portlet Mode
• All Portlets

15. CSS/JS Aggregation
• Reduce the number of CSS & JS files
• Uniquely name aggregations
• Cache aggregations “forever”
• XML to define skin resources

16. CSS/JS Aggregation
Multiple Scripts (36KB):
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/uportal/ajax-preferences-jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/uportal/search.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/uportal/up-channel-browser.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/uportal/up-group-browser.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/uportal/flyout-nav.js"></script>
Become One Script (19KB):
<script type="text/javascript"
src="javascript/uportal/uportal3_10_CA4AFE27EC643E4F96C7A724419E5C1E.aggr.min.js">
</script>

17. (Page generated 2009/12/16)
uPortal Aggregated Imports

18. Config Portlet Mode
• Portlets can provide their own admin UI
• Integrated into the new Portlet Manager
• Simplifies complex portlets (Web Proxy)
• This will be usable by any portlet
• Uses spec defined extension points

19. Everything is a Portlet!
• Default publishing types are all portlets
• All the IChannels are still there for migrators
• Ease migration to portlets
• Steer implementers away from IChannel

20. Updated Portlet Types: SQL Query

21. Deprecating IChannel
• Explicitly mark channels as not recommended
• Start planning around removing channel support

22. Portlet Administration
• Re-designed user interface
• Channel lifecycle management features
• Mark channels as created, approved, published, and
expired
• Delegate permissions for each lifecycle step
• Automatic publishing and expiration dates
• Parent CPD for common channel parameters

23. Browsing Portlets

24. Selecting Entities

25. Lifecycle Management

26. Mobile Theme
• Designed for the iPhone and other WebKit devices
• Layout and interactions customized for the mobile
environment
• Themes for both uPortal and CAS

27. uPortal Mobile: Navigation

28. uPortal Mobile: Portlet View

29. Demos and More
http://www.youtube.com/uPortal

30. uPortal 3.3
• Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286)
• Removing IChannel Support
• Consistent URLs
• DLM Management in AJAX UI
• Groups & Permissions Management Portlets
• Spring 3.0

31. Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286)
• Upgrading to Pluto 2.0
• Events, JS/CSS in <head>, resource serving
• Will require us to drop direct support for IChannels

32. Removing IChannel Support
• Necessary to move forward with uPortal
• Channels never had a fully defined API
• Significant overhead in feature development
• This will greatly simplify uPortal's code base

33. IChannel Initiatives
• Portlet to Channel adaptor stub project
• Support for converting your Channels to Portlets
• Open-source an IChannel and get help converting it

34. Consistent URLs
/uPortal/folderName/state/channelName.subscribeId/render.uP
• Move navigation state into the URL
• Enforce canonical URLs
• Allow usage of stats packages
• AWStats
• Google Analytics

35. DLM Fragment Management
• Add fragment administration to AJAX UI
• REST based service APIs for management
• Will replace current User Preferences channel

36. Spring 3.0
• Using the new REST Services APIs
• Converting to annotation based MVC support
• All libraries are reviewed for upgrading with every
uPortal release

37. uPortal - Long Term
• Refactored Build & Deployment - Maven Only
• Spring Security for Authentication
• Refactoring of user/profile/layout data model
• JPA for all database interaction
• Grouper Integration
• Multiple layouts per User
• Integrated Content Management
• Integrated Search Indexing

38. Refactored Build
• Stop using Ant for utilities
• Custom Maven plugins for utility functions
• Command line tools that don't require the entire
uPortal source

39. Spring Security
• Replace custom ISecurityContext code
• Becomes much easier after channels are removed
• Provides for authorization aspects, simplifying
code
• “Outsource” documentation

40. Data Model Cleanup / JPA
• Clarify user/profile/layout relationships
• Create uPortal ER Diagram
• Replace direct JDBC DAOs with JPA
• Enforce database level data constraints

41. Grouper Integration
• Talking with I2 about what Grouper can provide
• Consider replacing group management
• Consider just adding it as an additional group
service

42. Integrated CMS
• Embedded Java Content Repository
• Portlet with basic WYSIWYG editor
• Easy way to publish content
• Content Management Integration Support (CMIS)
• SOAP based API for CMS integration
• Alfresco supports CMIS

43. Integrated Search
• Embedded Java Search Engine
• Searching across static portlet meta-data
• Design API for portlets to dynamically add indexed
content

44. Getting Involved

45. How Can I Participate?
• Portlets
• Documentation
• Email lists
• Testing
• Sharing deployments

46. Portlet Development
New Portlet Initiatives
• Content Management
• Banner
Existing Portlets
• Patches
• Extensions

47. Share Your Portal
• Demo at uPortal Webinars
• Share Screenshots
• Contribute to uPortal’s YouTube Channel
• Register your portal

48. Other Ways to Participate
Documentation
• Help build skeleton manual
• Contribute to uPortal and portlet documentation
• Fix errors and omissions
Email lists
Testing

49. Questions?
The uPortal Steering Committee
uportal-steering-committee@lists.ja-sig.org

50. Feedback?
Suggestions?
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