From the 2012 Jasig-Sakai Conference, co-presented with Anthony Colebourne and Drew Wills. Along with uPortal, Jasig also sponsors a comprehensive range of compelling, off-the-shelf portlet projects you can use to assemble an effective campus portal in little time. The last year has been a big one for Jasig portlets: we've seen some exciting new projects, as well as lots of incremental features, improvements, and bug fixes in some of the best known portlets. This session will review and showcase these recent developments. We will discuss: - New portlets in Jasig - Development highlights for existing portlets - The impact of uMobile on Jasig portlets - JSR-286 portlets (Java Portlet 2.0) - Emerging patterns for portlet development - New portlets bundled with uPortal If you're thinking of implementing uPortal or uMobile, or if you already have a campus portal based on uPortal and need to catch up with new developments, this session is for you. This is a high-level, highly visual overview: uPortal and Java platform knowledge is not required.

1. Jasig Portlet Showcase
Anthony Colebourne
Drew Wills
Jen Bourey
Jasig / Sakai Conference 2012 Atlanta, June 13th

2. About This Session
• 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

3. That Was Then... This Is Now
• 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

4. Themes in Recent
Portlet Development

5. Migration to GitHub
• Move to GitHubTogether with uPortal,
CAS, etc.
• Simplifies adoption and maintenance
• Easier for non-committers to contribute
patches

6. Cross-Context Invoker
• 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)
•

7. uPortal Search API
• 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

8. Form API
• Define form elements
• Used by calendar portlet
administration UI
• Early version available in
portlet-utils project

9. Performance
• Reusable utilities for automating UX optimization
• Minification
• Aggregation
• GZipping
• Resource caching
• Cache public resources across users
• Set ETags for content

10. Interportlet Links
• Link between portlets
• Display location in map
• Display user in directory
• Configurable
• Override default to direct to university-specific website

11. Portlet Maven Archetype
• Quickly create simple portlet project
• Supports Spring PortletMVC, JSR-286
• Includes sample controllers, desktop and mobile
views
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06kJr4SnP94
mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.jasig.portlet.archetype
-DarchetypeArtifactId=jsr286-archetype

12. Mobile Support
• New mobile views for many Jasig portlets
• Performance improvements
• Brand new content driven by uMobile project
• Integration with uMobile native application

13. 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

14. Portlet Projects

15. Jasig Portlets Space

16. Student Success Plan (SSP)

17. SSP: Jasig Incubating Project
• 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

18. SSP Features
• Case Management Software
• Early Alert
• Student Interface
• Student Information System (SIS) Integration
• Reporting Tools / Data Collection

19. 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

20. Notifications Portlet

21. Contacts Portlet
• Searchable contacts
• Pushed contacts
• Save contacts
SearchAdapter
public ContactSet search(String
searchText);
PushAdapter
public Set<ContactSet> getContacts();
PersistAdapter
public boolean save(Contact contact);

22. Contacts Portlet

23. NewsReader Portlet
• 3.0.2 (Portlet 2.0)
• 2.0.1 (Portlet 1.0)
• Mobile friendly
• Improved performance
• Video support

24. NewsReader Portlet

25. Map Portlet
• Search campus locations
• Browse by category
• Display location details, image

26. Map Portlet

27. Courses Portlet
• Student-specific course list
• Course information and announcements
• Grades and GPA
• Supports multiple data sources
• LMS, SIS

28. Courses Portlet

29. Campus Life Portlets
• Provide university-focused content
• Consumes REST feeds defined by XSDs
• Content for
• Dining menus
• Athletics news and sports scores
• Computer lab availability
• Laundry availability

30. Campus Life

31. Campus Life

32. Classifieds Portlet
• Brand-new portlet contribution from Ft. Lewis
• Post ads by category

33. Calendar Portlet Overview
• 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

34. Desktop
in-page
Tablet
Phone

35. Calendar Improvements
• Massive performance improvements
• Time zone fixes
• Administration UI Updates
• New mobile views

36. What’s Next?

37. Adopting New APIs
• Configure existing projects with
• Search
• Badge Numbers
• Administrative UI Forms

38. Data Migration
• Add import/export library for portlet use
• Integrate portlet data migration, import into uPortal
build

39. Participation
• You can contribute by sharing
• Code
• Testing
• Use cases
• Portlet wish list
• https://wiki.jasig.org/display/PLT/Portlet+Wish+List