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Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: Java Portlet API, Lucene, James, Slide
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Open source technology enables you to build customized enterprise portal frameworks
with more flexibility and fewer limitations. This book explains the fundamentals
of a powerful set of open source tools and shows you how to use them.
An outstanding team of authors provides a complete tutorial and reference guide
to Java Portlet API, Lucene, James, and Slide, taking you step-by-step through
constructing and deploying portal applications. You trace the anatomy of a search
engine and understand the Lucene query syntax, set up Apache James configuration
for a variety of servers, explore object to relational mapping concepts with
Jakarta OJB, and acquire many other skills necessary to create J2EE portals
uniquely suited to the needs of your organization.
Loaded with code-intensive examples of portal applications, this book offers
you the know-how to free your development process from the restrictions of pre-packaged
solutions.
Here's what you will learn in this book:
- How to evaluate business requirements and plan the portal
- How to develop an effective browser environment
- How to provide a search engine, messaging, database inquiry, and content
management services in an integrated portal application
- How to develop Web services for the portal
- How to monitor, test, and administer the portal
- How to create portlet applications compliant with the Java Portlet API
- How to reduce the possibility of errors while managing the portal to accommodate
change
- How to plan for the next generation application portal
This book is for professional Java developers who have some experience in portal
development and want to take advantage of the options offered by open source
tools.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: Open Source Portals.
Chapter 1: The Java Portlet API (JSR 168).
Chapter 2: Searching with Lucene.
Chapter 3: Messaging with Apache James.
Chapter 4: Object to Relational Mapping with Apache OJB.
Chapter 5: Content Management with Jakarta’s Slide.
Chapter 6: Portal Security.
Part II: How to Build a Portal.
Chapter 7: Planning for Portal Deployment.
Chapter 8: Effective Client-Side Development Using JavaScript.
Chapter 9: Developing Applications and Workflow for Your Portal.
Chapter 10: Portlet Integration with Web Services.
Chapter 11: Performance Testing, Administering, and Monitoring Your Portal.
Chapter 12: Unifying the Enterprise Application Space Through Web Start.
Summary.
References.
Index.
About the Authors
W. Clay Richardson is a software consultant specializing in
distributed solutions, particularly portal solutions. He has fielded multiple
open-source Web and portal solutions, serving in roles ranging from senior architect
to development lead. He is a co-author of More Java Pitfalls, also published
by Wiley & Sons. As an adjunct professor of computer science for Virginia
Tech, he teaches graduate-level coursework in object-oriented development with
Java. He holds degrees from Virginia Tech and the Virginia Military Institute.
Donald Avondolio is a software consultant with over seventeen
years of experience developing and deploying enterprise applications. He began
his career in the aerospace industry developing programs for flight simulators,
and later became an independent contractor, crafting healthcare middleware and
low-level device drivers for an assortment of mechanical devices. Most recently,
he has built e-commerce applications for numerous high-profile companies, including
The Home Depot, Federal Computer Week, the U.S. Postal Service, and General
Electric. He is currently a technical architect and developer on several portal
deployments. Don also serves as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech, where
he teaches progressive object-oriented design and development methodologies,
with an emphasis on patterns.
Joe Vitale has been working with the latest cutting-edge Java
technology intensely. His most recent focus has been on Java portals and object-relational
mapping tools. One of these projects was writing a content management system
that contained role-based authentication of users and the capability for users
to upload, delete, and manage files, and secure resources. The whole system
was designed to plug right into a portal’s interface and enable the portal
to directly communicate with it to obtain its resources. Object-relational mapping
technologies have also been a focus, using Apache’s Object Relational Bridge
(OJB).
Peter Len has over seven years’ experience performing Web-based
and Java application development in a client-server environment. He has designed,
coded, and implemented data and Web site components for each aspect of a three-tier
architecture. Mr. Len has been developing with Java for over five years and
has recently been involved with portal and Web-service development. He holds
a master’s degree in both international affairs and computer information
systems.
Kevin T. Smith is a technical director and principal software
architect at McDonald Bradley, Inc., where he develops security solutions for
Web service–based systems. He has focused his career on building enterprise
solutions based on open-source tools. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees
in computer science, software systems engineering, and information security.
He has taught undergraduate courses in computer science, given technical presentations
on Web services and Java programming at numerous technology conferences, and
authored several technical books, including Essential XUL Programming (Wiley
2001), More Java Pitfalls (Wiley 2003), and The Semantic Web: A Guide to the
Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management (Wiley 2003).
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Feb 24, 2004 Dee Carver from Dallas, TX
Sharp Book!
This book is excellent for those who want to understand JSR 168 (Java Portlet API). The authors do a great job of explaining the specification and also show well-thought out examples using various open-source products that can be used in a portal environment.
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