Building Portals with the Java Portlet API

by Dave Minter, Jeff Linwood

Overview

How do developers bring existing applications into a portal? How do developers integrate content management systems and search engines with a portal? And how do developers get started with the Portlet API? Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter show you how to solve these real problems in Building Portals with the Java Portlet API.

This book describes the new Java portlet API, including security, portlet life cycles, and portlet interaction with servlets and JSP. The examples will work on any portal that complies with the JSR-168 portlet API. Several example portlets are developed to give you hands-on portlet experience. You'll even learn how to port existing servlet and JSP applications into a new portal environment.

The authors also discuss Single Sign-On (SSO) using Kerberos and the GSS-API, syndicating content with RSS, and integrating a charting solution with JFreeChart. Other topics covered are the open-source Apache Jakarta Lucene search engine, personalization, portlet configuration, portlet preferences, and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP). XDoclet is also used throughout portions of this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590592847
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/16/2004
Series:	Expert's Voice
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Dave Minter has adored computers since he was small enough to play in the boxes they came in. He built his first PC from discarded, faulty, and obsolete components, and considers that to be the foundation of his career as an integration consultant. Dave is based in London, where he helps large and small companies build systems that "just work." He co-authored Building Portals with the Java Portlet API and Pro Hibernate 3.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to Portals and Portlets.- 2 Portlet Basics.- 3 The Portlet Life Cycle.- 4 Portlet Concepts.- 5 Using Servlets and JavaServer Pages with Portlets.- 6 Packaging and Deployment Descriptors.- 7 Portal and Portlet Configuration.- 8 Security and Single Sign-On.- 9 RSS and Syndication.- 10 Integrating the Lucene Search Engine.- 11 Personalization and User Attributes.- 12 Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Application Syndication.- 13 Exposing an Existing Application As a Portlet.- 14 Charting with JFreeChart.- 15 Content Management Systems.