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A new portal update has just been posted there, so check it out!
http://ctpjava.blogspot.com/2009/10/portal-update-november-2009-and-java.html
If you are interested in portals, I just wanted to mention that you might want to subscribe to the following blog as I regularly post a monthly summary on portals there (open source as well as commercial products). As I haven't found such complete summaries on the web, I started to do this at my own:
Introduction
Since the acquisition of BEA, Oracle releases BEA's WLS for the first time under the new brand Oracle WebLogic Server. Besides the new technical features discussed in this article, also notice the slightly modified name of the product from "10.3" to "10g R3". The codename of this release remained unchanged: ESSEX.
You can download it from this page.
Under Developer Tools at the bottom of the page, you can download the bundle WLS + Workshop 10.3 (even though the .exe file for Windows is still called server103_win32.exe, nothing about bundle or platform).
New Features
Admin Console
spring-console.jar) or you put the JAR file into the autodeploy folder $BEA_HOME\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\console-ext\autodeploy.
acegi) provides security to a Spring application while providing a rich set of security providers.Java Standard | |
While I read through several infos about yesterday's webcast, I took some notes and want to share the summary here. Give me feedback should there be missing infos or even wrong infos.
Here is a summary of the "What's new" page when you launch Workshop 10.2 (which is now called Workspace Studio 1.1):
Today I was able to download the new portal release.
First impressions will follow soon.
DOWNLOAD IT
BEA officially announced to release WLP 10.2, codename Flatirons, by end of February 2008.
Josh Lannin (Lead Product Manager WebLogic Portal) has just posted a new video (9 min) about the features.
Have a look at it or read my super quick summary:
I'm not to repeat what you can read on the net since yesterday 3pm CET.
The best post I've read so far is by Rod Johnson.
My only hope is that Oracle picks the right products from BEA and that Oracle does not stop the innovation that BEA has shown in the last years.
Happy New Year!
The following list shows the different WebLogic Versions and the products that are released with it.
Workshop Studio 3.3 (needs extra license)
WebLogic Platform 9.2
WebLogic Portal 10.0
Workshop for WebLogic 10.1
WebLogic Platform 10.2 (Feb 29th 2008)
WebLogic Server 10.3
The Background
This post addresses the following portal setup:
PortletPresentationContext px = PortletPresentationContext.getPortletPresentationContext(request);
getPortletPreferences())
/**
* @return null if portlet has no preferences or if portlet can not be retrieved. otherwise each key represents a preference, the value is Preference through which you retrieve the name, value or anything else from the preference.
*/
public static final Map getPortletPreferences(HttpServletRequest request, PortletView portletView) {
request = getRealRequest(request);
Map map = null;
try {
// init
CustomizationContext customizationContext = new CustomizationContext(Locale.ENGLISH);
getPortalCustomizationManager();
getPreferencePersistenceManager();
// read preferences
PortletInstance preferencesPortletInstance = portletView.getPortletInstance();
PortletPreferencesId portletPreferencesId = new PortletPreferencesId(preferencesPortletInstance.getPortletInstanceId().getId());
map = preferencePersistenceManager.getPreferences(customizationContext, portletPreferencesId);
if (map != null && map.isEmpty()) {
map = null;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return map;
}
private static PortalCustomizationManager getPortalCustomizationManager() {
if (portalCustomizationManager == null) {
try {
PortalCustomizationManagerHome portalCustomizationManagerHome =
(PortalCustomizationManagerHome)getHome(new InitialContext(),PortalCustomizationManagerHome.LOOKUP_NAME);
portalCustomizationManager = portalCustomizationManagerHome.create();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return portalCustomizationManager;
}
private static PreferencePersistenceManager getPreferencePersistenceManager() {
if (preferencePersistenceManager == null) {
try {
PreferencePersistenceManagerHome preferencePersistenceManagerHome =
(PreferencePersistenceManagerHome)getHome(new InitialContext(),PreferencePersistenceManagerHome.LOOKUP_NAME);
preferencePersistenceManager = preferencePersistenceManagerHome.create();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return preferencePersistenceManager;
}
private static Object getHome(InitialContext context, String jndiName) throws NamingException
{
String fullJndiName = ApplicationHelper.getNonVersionedAppName()+ "." + jndiName;
Object obj = context.lookup(fullJndiName);
return obj;
}
/**
* @param request
* @return returns the original Request Object, not the wrapped pageflow request object.
*/
public static HttpServletRequest getRealRequest(HttpServletRequest request) {
if (request instanceof ScopedRequest) {
request = ((ScopedRequest)request).getOuterRequest();
}
return request;
}
dear readers,
in my current portal 10 project I collected lots of infos regarding the new features, some challenges with Workshop10 as well as the cluster setup of a portal 10 domain.
as the whole project makes me fully busy, I will write a post-project smackdown of what I have learnt, and I can promise that the summary is going to be interesting as there is no info on the web at this moment on these topics ;-)
so stay tuned.
cheers
Balz
Current version of ALSB is 2.6.
BEA's next release of ALSB with codename PUMA is following the general direction of AquaLogic products:
PUMA will bring additional cool features to improve the ALBPM-ALSB integration. Features such as: automatic publication and subscription of services, better authentication support via WS-Security, etc.
| Standard | Version |
|---|---|
| Java EE | 5.0 |
| JDKs | 5.0 (aka 1.5), 1.4 (clients only) |
| Java EE Enterprise Web Services | 1.2, 1.1 |
| Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform | 2.0, 1.1 |
| Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) | 2.0 |
| Java EE EJB | 3.0, 2.1, 2.0, and 1.1 |
| Java EE JMS | 1.1, 1.0.2b |
| Java EE JDBC (with third-party drivers) | 2.0 |
| MS SQL jDriver | 1.0 |
| Oracle OCI jDriver | 1.0 and some 2.0 features (batching) |
| Java EE JNDI | 1.2 |
| OTS/JTA | 1.2 and 1.1 |
| Java EE Servlet | 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, and 2.2 |
| Java EE Application Deployment | 1.2 |
| Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) | 1.1 |
| Java EE JSP | 2.1, 2.0, 1.2, and 1.1 |
| RMI/IIOP | 1.0 |
| JMX | 1.2, 1.0 |
| JavaMail | 1.2 |
| JAAS | 1.0 Full |
| Java EE CA | 1.5, 1.0 |
| JCE | 1.4 |
| Java RMI | 1.0 |
| JAX-B | 2.0 |
| JAX-P | 1.2, 1.1 |
| JAX-RPC | 1.1, 1.0 |
| JAX-R | 1.0 |
| SOAP Attachments for Java (SAAJ) | 1.3, 1.2 |
| Streaming API for XML (StAX) | 1.0 |
| Standard | Version |
|---|---|
| Java EE Enterprise Web Services | 1.2, 1.1 |
| Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform (JWS) | 2.0, 1.0 |
| Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) | 2.0 |
| SOAP | 1.1, 1.2 |
| WSDL | 1.1 |
| JAX-RPC | 1.1 |
| SOAP Attachments for Java (SAAJ) | 1.3, 1.2 |
| WS-Security | 1.1, 1.0 |
| WS-Policy | 1.0 |
| WS-SecurityPolicy | 1.2, 1.1 |
| WS-PolicyAttachment | 1.0 |
| WS-Addressing | 1.0 |
| WS-ReliableMessaging | 1.0 |
| WS-Trust | 1.0 |
| WS-SecureConversation | 1.3, 1.0 |
| UDDI | 2.0 |
| JAX-R | 1.0 |
| JAX-B | 2.0 |
| Standard | Version |
|---|---|
| SSL | v3 |
| X.509 | v3 |
| Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) | 1.0, 1.1 |
| LDAP | v3 |
| TLS | v1 |
| HTTP | 1.1 |
| SNMP | SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 |
| xTensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) | 2.0 |
| Partial implementation of Core and Hierarchical Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Profile of XACML | 2.0 |
