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Building Portals with the Java Portlet API
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Jeff Linwood, David Minter
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Apress
1 edition
August 2004
393 pages
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Reviewed by Valentin Crettaz, April 2005
         (9 of 10)
Information is as vital to success-striving companies and individuals as blood is to living creatures. As far as productivity is concerned, it is critical that heterogeneous corporate information systems (such as, email systems, ERP, CMS, CRM, databases, etc.) be organized in a way that allows employees at any level of the organization to seamlessly exploit and manage the massive amount of stored and generated data. This book introduces the value proposition of corporate portals when it comes to dealing with the problematic of efficient information organization and management.
Building on their long experience of developing corporate portals, the authors demonstrate how to create JSR 168 (Java Portlet API) compliant enterprise portals. They first introduce basic portlets concepts and go on explaining how to create, package, deploy and configure portlets, how to let users personalize them, how to provide single sign-on security, and how to expose portlets to the outside world or to make use of remote web service portlets. A couple of other interesting topics are also touched upon, such as creating RSS, syndication and search portlets, using portlets with JSP and servlets and integrating portlets with JSR 170 (Java Content Repository API) compliant content management systems.
If you find yourself routinely switching among several different applications to carry out your daily activities and you are dreaming at night of a single entry point to all your information systems, remember that this book is not an expenditure, it's an investment !
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Apress
1 edition
August 2004
393 pages
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Reviewed by Thomas Paul, December 2004
(8 of 10)
Portals are becoming more popular as companies are looking for a single web-based entry point into their various applications. Java provides a standard portal model with JSR 168. This book is a thorough introduction into JSR 168 that will help get portal developers up to speed into this relatively new specification.
The first seven chapters an excellent introduction into developing portlets. Response and request objects are covered in detail. The portlet life cycle is clearly explained. Deployment descriptors are discussed. Integrating with Servlets and JSPs is described. The remainder of the book covers more advanced topics. Anyone working with a portal knows the problems with providing single sign-on to multiple applications. The authors discuss this issue giving several examples. The authors cover syndication, searching, personalization, web services, content management, and more.
My only complaint with the book is that it uses the Apache Pluto portal, which is not in final release yet. Pluto is an open source portal but it is complicated to distribute content to it (you are forced to use Maven). When the book explains how to distribute portlets to Pluto it gets a little confusing because the authors need to explain multiple configuration files, some of which are exclusive to Pluto. Other than this one problem, the book gives a solid introduction to developing a portal providing detailed information of both the basics and many advanced concepts. Clearly the authors understand portal development and know how to pass that information on to their readers.
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