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CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
JA-SIG
• Java In AdministrationSpecial Interest Group• www.jasig.org
• Conferences biannually• Clearing house
• https://www.mis4.udel.edu/JasigCH/
• Collaborative projects
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
uPortal Community
• University of British Columbiamy.ubc.ca
•Boston College•Cal Poly San Luis Obispo•College of the Holy Cross•Columbia University •Cornell University•Interactive Business Solutions
•Meteor Project•Memorial University of Newfoundland•Plymouth State University
•Princeton University •Rutgers University•University of Delaware •University of Hawaii•University of California, Irvine •University of Colorado•University of New Mexico•Villanova University•Virtual Education Space (VES)•Yale University
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What is uPortal?
• Enterprise, horizontal portal• Framework for presenting
aggregated content (channels)• Personalization• Role-based access control• Open source, collaborative effort• Java web application • XML transformations (XSLT)
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Where does uPortal fit?
Data Applications
uPortal with Channels
Browsing Devices
People
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What is a Channel?
• Displays content • XML feeds
• Rich Site Summary (RSS)
• Legacy system
• An interactive application• Bookmarks• Email
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Flexible Layouts
• Structures• Tab / column• Tree / column
• Themes• Multi-column• Multi-row
• Skins• Matrix, Java
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Content Transformation
XML
Stylesheet
XHTML: Web Browser
WML: Cell Phone
HTML: PDA
XSLTProcessor
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Tab / Column Layout
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Tree / Column Layout
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Multiple Target Devices
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Interfaces Facilitate Implementation
Alice wants to see the faculty
calendar.
Is Alice a faculty member?
Look in our LDAP directory
Contact ourHR application
or
Interface
Implementations
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
uPortal Interfaces
• Authentication• Proving your identity
• Authorization• Deciding what you can access
• User preferences• Profiles, structure, themes, skins
• Channel information• Availability and configuration
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Release Schedule
• uPortal 1.0• July 2000
• uPortal 1.5• February 2001
• uPortal 1.6• June 2001
• uPortal 2.0 Beta• May 2001
• uPortal 2.0• July 2001
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What’s new in 2.0?
• Abstraction of layout• Structure/theme transformations• Standard channel events• Standard CSS classes• More flexible publish/subscribe• User profile management• JNDI lookup service• WebProxy channel
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Coming Soon
• Layout-specific userpreferences management
• Fully-normalized database• Support for “Wallet”
authentication• Integration of vendor content• More support for cell phones
and palm pilots
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Support and Services
• uPortal Mailing List• [email protected]
• Interactive Business Solutions• www.interactivebusiness.com• uPortal Implementation Services• uPortal Training
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Questions?
• Useful URLs• www.jasig.org• www.udel.edu/uPortal• www.interactivebusiness.com
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Going Live with JA-SIG’s uPortal
Dave Frazer Associate Director
ITServicesThe University of British Columbia
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
• How it began• Why uPortal• Implementing the Reference code• Sharing our Experience
myUBC
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
• 35k FTE students• R1, Medical and Professional • #2 in Canada• Located in Vancouver
University of BC
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
• Access to information• Collaborative Initiative• JA-SIG• uPortal Initiative• Hit the ground running
How it All Began
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Attractions and Opportunities
• Technologies• Open Source• Small• Clean, flexible, processing model• The Portal Promise• JA-SIG
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Challenges
• Technologies new to us• Developers reference implementation
• Unknown performance• Unknown robustness• Unknown reliability
• Deciding what functionality to deliver
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What gave us the confidenceto proceed?
• Useful, but not critical function• Release date important but not critical• Gradual release strategy• Experienced development team• Proven existing infrastructure
• BEA WebLogic Server• Oracle RDBMS• Sun E450 hardware
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
The major problem we faced
Can we turn a reference implementaton into a production service?
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Reference Implementations
and Prototypes
• Demonstrate correct behaviour• Environment is predefined• Environment is assumed clean• User behaviour expected to be reasonable• Database assumed clean and maintained• The 20% of the code that does correct things
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Production Services
• Reasonable behaviour in an existing environment
• Wide audience• Must behave reasonably all the time• Databases must be maintained• Need other 80% of the code
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What we did to address the problem
• Froze the repository code• Ported to the Oracle RDBMS• Adapted to local authentication• BEA WebLogic Servlet/JSP engine• Team experienced in OS development
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Other Challenges
• New technologies• Selecting channel functionality
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
First Experiences
• In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are different
• Our first scaling problems• Database problem recovery• Database out of service• Channels out of service
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
How did we achieve control?
• Few, well-behaved channels• Minimal dependence on external resources• Enhancements to database recovery• Substantial hardware platform• Avoided experimental changes• Gradual release strategy
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
How successful were we?
• Users happy• Confident we can grow• New content limitations• Forked from reference code• Learned a lot
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What we should have done(according to the rules)
• System testing• Volume testing• User environment testing• Stress testing• Load testing
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
We were lucky
No wildly chaotic behaviours orhotspots were observed
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
Would we do it differently?
Given our goals and requirements -
… Probably not
CUMREC 2001 • Ken Weiner, IBS
What’s Next?
• Development of 2.x• 1.0 -> 1.6 -> 2.x• install myUBC server• Implement more content• Do the testing• Target all students in Sept