Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools (with source code)

Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools (with source code):

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.

Portal development projects have become the centerpiece of IT acquisition and development strategy for many organizations. Enterprise integration and Web application developers predictably groan when they hear the word “portal” — nightmares of proprietary APIs, oversold features, and shoddy tool integrations. The authors of this book have been involved in over a dozen production portal efforts over the last several years. In that time, we have dealt with numerous products and frameworks, including some in-house frameworks based on servlets and JSPs. Through all of this, we began to wonder whether these commercial suites were really providing any value. We started to realize that we could put together a framework from open-source products.

We would like to point out that our portal framework is not meant to be an all-or-nothing solution. We present a number of tools that you may use to satisfy your enterprise portal needs, and we demonstrate how to use them, but because portal efforts are largely integration efforts, it would be folly to presume that anyone will drop all of their current systems and pick up our framework.

This book explains a set of tools at the foundation of an open-source portal framework, and demonstrates how to build your own portal using open-source tools. However, before describing the structure of the book, it makes sense to cover some fundamental concepts addressed therein.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - The Java Portlet API (JSR 168)
Chapter 02 - Searching with Lucene
Chapter 03 - Messaging with Apache James
Chapter 04 - Object to Relational Mapping with Apache OJB
Chapter 05 - Content Management with Jakarta’s Slide
Chapter 06 - Portal Security
Chapter 07 - Planning for Portal Deployment
Chapter 08 - Effective Client-Side Development Using JavaScript
Chapter 09 - 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