Jasig Portlet ShowcaseAnthony Colebourne
Drew WillsJen Bourey
Jasig / Sakai Conference 2012 Atlanta, June 13th
• In the “old days,” the uPortal framework benefited from collaboration, but the content that went into it mostly did not
• A few of the very best channels & portlets were shared via email
• Occasionally a community portlet was posted to JIRA / CVS/ Subversion as a code dump
• New adopters implemented such portlets by forking them in their own repositories
About This Session
• Today there are a wide variety of compelling portlets available through Jasig
• They operate like real software projects
• Code in GitHub
• Issues in JIRA
• Multiple institutions contributing
• Active, ongoing development
• These portlets are the low-hanging fruit
• New adopters should implement these portlets to-taste before looking elsewhere
That Was Then... This Is Now
Themes in Recent Portlet Development
• Move to GitHubTogether with uPortal, CAS, etc.
• Simplifies adoption and maintenance
• Easier for non-committers to contribute patches
Migration to GitHub
• Enables cross-context requests to uPortal REST services
• Access any uPortal REST API from a portlet (e.g. groups, permissions, user attributes, etc.)
• New in Jasig/portlet-utils (on GitHub)
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Cross-Context Invoker
• Allows portlets to add their own results to portal search queries
• Based on JSR-286 portlet events, which means there's a PortletRequest and results can be user-specific!
• Current Search Examples
• Simple Content Management portlet
• Directory portlet
• uPortal Search portlet
uPortal Search API
• Define form elements
• Used by calendar portlet administration UI
• Early version available in portlet-utils project
Form API
• Reusable utilities for automating UX optimization
• Minification
• Aggregation
• GZipping
• Resource caching
• Cache public resources across users
• Set ETags for content
Performance
• Link between portlets
• Display location in map
• Display user in directory
• Configurable
• Override default to direct to university-specific website
Interportlet Links
• Quickly create simple portlet project
• Supports Spring PortletMVC, JSR-286
• Includes sample controllers, desktop and mobile views
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06kJr4SnP94
Portlet Maven Archetype
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jasig.portlet.archetype -DarchetypeArtifactId=jsr286-archetype
• New mobile views for many Jasig portlets
• Performance improvements
• Brand new content driven by uMobile project
• Integration with uMobile native application
Mobile Support
uMobile Native App
• Native smartphone and tablet support for iOS and Android
• Persistent authentication
• Integration with native map features
• Ability to display mobile portlet views
Portlet Projects
Jasig Portlets Space
Student Success Plan (SSP)
• Software & processes for student success
• Increases the persistence, success, and graduation rates of targeted students
• Through holistic counseling, web-based support systems, and intervention techniques, students are identified, supported and monitored
SSP: Jasig Incubating Project
• Case Management Software
• Early Alert
• Student Interface
• Student Information System (SIS) Integration
• Reporting Tools / Data Collection
SSP Features
Notifications Portlet
• Aggregates notifications from several sources into a single view
• Accordion style display of notifications by categories
• Displays error messages that can be deleted from the view
• Loose data model allows for any type of notification
• Caches data / provides refresh option
Notifications Portlet
• Searchable contacts
• Pushed contacts
• Save contacts
SearchAdapterpublic ContactSet search(String searchText);
PushAdapterpublic Set<ContactSet> getContacts();
PersistAdapterpublic boolean save(Contact contact);
Contacts Portlet
Contacts Portlet
• 3.0.2 (Portlet 2.0)
• 2.0.1 (Portlet 1.0)
• Mobile friendly
• Improved performance
• Video support
NewsReader Portlet
NewsReader Portlet
Map Portlet
• Search campus locations
• Browse by category
• Display location details, image
Map Portlet
• Student-specific course list
• Course information and announcements
• Grades and GPA
• Supports multiple data sources
• LMS, SIS
Courses Portlet
Courses Portlet
• Provide university-focused content
• Consumes REST feeds defined by XSDs
• Content for
• Dining menus
• Athletics news and sports scores
• Computer lab availability
• Laundry availability
Campus Life Portlets
Campus Life
Campus Life
• Brand-new portlet contribution from Ft. Lewis
• Post ads by category
Classifieds Portlet
• Read-only calendar feed aggregator
• Distribute calendar feeds by role, override with user preferences
• Supports iCal, CalDAV, XML, Exchange, custom integrations
• Offers delegated authentication to personal calendars
Calendar Portlet Overview
Phone
Desktopin-page
MobileMobile
Tablet
• Massive performance improvements
• Time zone fixes
• Administration UI Updates
• New mobile views
Calendar Improvements
What’s Next?
Adopting New APIs
• Configure existing projects with
• Search
• Badge Numbers
• Administrative UI Forms
Data Migration
• Add import/export library for portlet use
• Integrate portlet data migration, import into uPortal build
Participation
• You can contribute by sharing
• Code
• Testing
• Use cases
• Portlet wish list
• https://wiki.jasig.org/display/PLT/Portlet+Wish+List
