What is well designed J2EE architecture? Are your systems designed with the right patterns? Is your system available 7x24? Do your systems function smoothly when thousands of people press the buttons at the same time? How do you minimize the risks from the
hackers? This workshop will cover J2EE architecture fundamentals, J2EE design pattern, common security practices and performance tuning.

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The thesis of this presentation is that a modern university needs a comprehensive strategy defining the role of information technology in accomplishing its mission. Although a portal may be an important component of this strategy, it should be considered within this broader context. I will use several examples (both positive and negative) from the e-Berkeley Initiative to illustrate the importance of developing an e-Strategy. Technology is only part of the solution!

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The University of Washington is launching an open source project to create a calendaring system for higher education. It will support personal, public and group calendars, and integrate with other systems, uPortal in particular. We will discuss our initial code release, plans for the future, and how other institutions can participate.

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CWebProxy allows incorporation of web applications as uPortal channels.
It is a powerful and practical tool for quickly implementing lots of useful channels. It is particularly handy for interfacing with back-end systems that are already web-enabled, and for quickly building simple channels with your existing web-development technologies. This session
will explain how CWebProxy works, how to use it, and enhancements planned for uPortal 2.1 and beyond.

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If institutions are going to consider uPortal as the enterprise information portal and a key component of the application architecture, institutional technical staffs and executive planners are going to need to be convinced to adopt uPortal. This presentation will attempt to identify the management issues, to offer some suggested approaches and tactics, and to define the expanded role that JA-SIG needs to play in building alliances with content providers and in promoting and marketing uPortal.

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One important requirement of the University of California, Irvine Administrative Portal is to serve business information that is current, accurate, and maintained by the subject matter experts. EContent, a Content Management Solution (CMS) from jCorporate was chosen, primarily for its ease of integration with uPortal. Hints, tricks and potential pitfalls to avoid in integrating uPortal with this CMS will be the topic of this presentation.

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A portal seeks to serve all members of an institution, providing for the needs of users in a manner tailored to their individual points of view. To be successful, it must accommodate local notions of structure and authority. In a large institution, it must fit itself to the fabric of existing infrastructure, embracing the local meanings of identities and roles. UBC has had to confront these issues in adapting uPortal to interoperate with the University’s campus wide authentication, authorization, and identity services.

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Doing eBusiness with uPortal
Richard Spencer
Executive Director, e-Business
University of British Columbia

Leo Fernig
Systems Project Manager
University of British Columbia

The University of BC is using web technologies to improve business processes, delivering simple, self-service web applications directly to end users to reduce process times and improve service. This presentation will discuss some of the interface design, functional and other issues involved in delivering these applications through uPortal.

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Web services is the next step in the evolution of distributed computing. XML-based technologies such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI can be used by systems to discover and converse with other systems. This presentation will introduce the web services approach and explain how web services can be used to expose uPortal channels to external applications including other portals.

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iPlanet Integration Server product is at the core of Sun ONE implementation strategy. Integration Server comes in two flavors: The
B2B edition and EAI edition. The B2B edition is targeted towards enabling automation and management of business processes that take place between organizations over the Internet as well as existing private
networks (if any). The EAI edition comes along with an XML based Integration Broker that enables integration of internal business applications to create new web services. This session would introduce
each of these, and would talk about their salient features and roadmap.

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Utilizing XML allows "loosely coupled connections" to be created between partner applications which really need to know nothing more about each other than what business documents each sends and receives, when they do so, and the infrastructure over which these documents are carried. This session will focus on that last bit, introducing the set of key infrastructure questions that must always be asked before architecting A2A (or B2B) XML solutions. The implications of some of the more common answers will be explored, and the functionality and limitations of two XML envelope layer standards(specifically SOAP and especially ebXML TR&P) will be analyzed to see to what situations they are most applicable. At the conclusion, everyone will be encouraged to share what THEY mean when they use the term "Web Service". If a concensus is reached, the media will be notified.

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The problem of transitive trust, proxy or n-tier authentication and one solution for solving it in the uPortal framework. Yale Central Authentication Server version 2 (CAS2), used with Yale-CAS security provider in uPortal 2.1, allows portal channels to securely access back end resources which require authentication. Neither the portal nor the backend applications actually handle the password. All particpating applications use CAS for authentication. To faciltate this we have developed and made available an Apache mod_CAS, a unix CAS Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) , a CAS servlet API, CAS taglib, PL/SQL CAS procedure and other mechanisms for perl and php applications. Also available is the Yale CAS Security Provider for uPortal.

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Portlets are web components like servlets, but have additional, special properties that allow them to easily plug into and run in enclosing web applications like portals. A Portal is a web site that offers personalized content and services from different sources in a single place. Portal computing, thus, addresses vast areas of aggregation,
personalization, presentation, syndication, security, etc. This session explores Portlet components in detail. It also talks about the required framework for creating and deploying portlets. The session discusses various JSRs under works in the areas of Portal development. Also the session talks about how to write portals for delivering web
services and discusses WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portals) and WSIA (Web Services for Interactive pplications) standards currently under work at OASIS. The session also takes a "how-to" approach to Portlets and shows how to implement and deploy a simple Portlet.

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Despite an aggressive 9-month timeline, minimal staff, and vocal critics, the myDENISON project met both deadlines and expectations. How did it succeed? The answer, like the portal itself, consists of not simply technology, but also: extensive community involvement, an evolutionary ?start simple and grow? philosophy, strong emphasis on the user, readily available Web content, and an aggressive marketing strategy.

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CyrptoWallet - a Secure Storage Mechanism CryptoWallet is a secure storage mechanism that can store arbitrary Java Objects to various storage medium in an encrypted form, thus protecting the objects from tampering or intrusion. One of the (many) uses of CryptoWallet is to store passwords for users to allow a system to re-authenticate them against heterogenous servers. Demonstrate the installation, configuration, usage within the uPortal 2.0 framework, and how to configure the Java Security Manager. Source code and documentation for the examples will be available.

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Eighteen months ago, in October 2000, WebCT was asked by the JA-SIG members to commit to building integration between WebCT Campus Edition and uPortal. Ten months later WebCT had built and tested its uPortal integration, and proposed joint testing to UBC. This is the story about how WebCT built its uPortal channels, how you can use them, and how UBC has chosen to implement them in its uPortal deployment. We'll look at specifics of the implementation code, and how this will change from WebCT Campus Edition to WebCT Vista going forward.

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An examination of Campus Pipeline's Luminis and its integration with uPortal. Demonstrations of single sign on, new functionality added to uPortal and new channels created by Campus Pipeline. Integration with student information systems and content management systems will also be presented.

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