The document discusses Sun GlassFish Web Space Server, a modular and lightweight user interaction platform that provides content delivery, social networking, collaboration, and mashups capabilities. It is designed to be approachable, testable, sustainable, and interoperable. Key features include a portal framework, social networking, collaboration tools, content management through Mirage API and OpenOffice, identity-based content delivery, and workflow/BI capabilities. The software is meant to work with GlassFish Application Server for Java EE support and uses technologies like MySQL, Eclipse, and NetBeans for development.

1. Sun GlassFish
Web Space Server
James Falkner
Product Architect
Portal Technologies
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2. Web Space Server:
Complete User Interaction Platform
• Web / Portal Platform
> Content / Widgets / WOA
• User Collaboration
> Wiki, Blogs, Forums, etc.
• Social Networking
> Open Social support for social
graph
> User defined communities
• Process and Human
Workflow
Add social networking to content delivery.
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3. Evolution of Sun Portal
Tooling Import/Export Visual Builder Widget Factory Web 2.0 Services
Syndication REST RSS/Atom JSON
Access
Mural / OpenKapow
Desktop
JCAPS et al
Enterprise Social
Msg Boards
Blog Logging
OpenOffice
Xcelerators
Sharepoint
Semantic
Search
Social Admin
Collab
Wiki Community CMS
SRA
Workflow/BI
Portlet Container
Mashup
Mirage API
Mobile
SAW WSRP
FAM/OpenSSO SSO Adapter JCR (JackRabbit)
GlassFish JDBC
Scripting Server Admin Clustering/HA
Java Platform, Standard Edition
Repository
IPS
Packaging/Update Update Center
OpenSolaris Linux Windows
Hypervisor/Virtual Machine
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4. Web Space Server: Design Goals
• Modular, Lightweight, Opt-In, Approachable
• End-to-end Platform
CMS OO.o
Security Collab
• Testable
• Sustainable
Rest PHP,
Feeds Ruby, etc.
• Useable
Interoperable
• OpenSSO 8
Glassfish V2/V3
JavaEE (GlassFish!)
• MySQL
Compelling Sun FOSS offering
•
Carry forward adopted features
•
Never say Never
•
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5. Web Space Server: Major Features
• Core Portal Framework
> Lightweight, easy to install, customizable
• Social Networking
> Rating, Community Equity drives participation
• Collaboration/Community
> Blog/Wiki/Msg/Presence
• Mashups
> Portal Data Syndication
• Content Management
> Mirage API / JSR 170
> OpenOffice
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6. Web Space Server: Major Features
• Identity-Based Content Delivery
> Driven through
Organizations+Communities
> SSO, RBAC support
• Packaging/Updates w/IPS
• Workflow/BI
• Multi-language Development
> NetBeans & Eclipse
> JSR 286, CMS, Workflow, Service
Builder
> JSF, Spring, Ruby, PHP, Groovy
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7. Web Space Server and GlassFish
• Supports GF Enterprise Server v2.1
> Clustered and Non-Clustered
> Clustering can be done at other layers (portal, LB, DB)
• Addons available for GF Communications Server
• MySQL is preferred for portal database
• GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude available for
evaluation/development
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8. Try It!
• Download; unzip; run
http://www.sun.com/software/products/webspace/get.jsp
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