JBoss Portal Server Development

Create dynamic, feature-rich, and robust enterprise portal applications

Key Features

• Complete guide with examples for building enterprise portal applications using the free, open-source standards-based JBoss portal server
• Quickly build portal applications such as B2B web sites or corporate intranets
• Practical approach to understanding concepts such as personalization, single sign-on, integration with web technologies, and content management

Book Description

What you will learn

• Covers the latest JBoss Portal Server 2.7.0 with support for JSR-286 Portlet 2.0 specification.
• Learn in detail about JBoss Portal and its components
• Configure the JBoss Portal Server software best suited for your environment
• Build portlets using common technologies such as Servlets, JSPs, and JSF to add functionality to your site
• Personalize and internationalize the portal so that the user identifies with it
• Create rich and dynamic portlets using AJAX for better user experience
• Add popular third-party components such as Google gadgets and Yahoo widgets to enhance the portal features
• Use databases in portlets to build custom user applications that persist data
• Learn how to configure single sign-on and fine-grained security in a portal
• Learn to use the content management system and empower users to actively manage their own content on the portal
• Establish inter-portlet communication and harvest the power of existing assets

Who this book is for

This book is for portal developers, portal administrators, designers and architects working on the Java platform, who want to build web portal solutions. The book doesn't expect an expert knowledge of portal or JEE technologies, but does presume a basic understanding of web technologies and the Java/JEE platform. However, the concepts are lucid enough that any competent developer can easily find immediate value in the book and start creating dynamic portal applications.