Peter Len & W. Clay Richardson 
Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools 
Java Portlet API, Lucene, James, Slide

What is this book about?



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.

What does this book cover?

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

Who is this book for?

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.

قائمة المحتويات

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
Java Script.

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.

عن المؤلف

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 Mc Donald 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).