Building Portals with the Java Portlet API

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages N2-xxi Introduction to Portals and Portlets....Pages 1-10 Portlet Basics....Pages 11-40 The Portlet Life Cycle....Pages 41-71 Portlet Concepts....Pages 73-118 Using Servlets and JavaServer Pages with Portlets....Pages 119-158 Packaging and Deployment Descriptors....Pages 159-184 Portal and Portlet Configuration....Pages 185-208 Security and Single Sign-On....Pages 209-238 RSS and Syndication....Pages 239-253 Integrating the Lucene Search Engine....Pages 255-280 Personalization and User Attributes....Pages 281-294 Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Application Syndication....Pages 295-306 Exposing an Existing Application As a Portlet....Pages 307-338 Charting with JFreeChart....Pages 339-357 Content Management Systems....Pages 359-380 Back Matter....Pages 381-394