This session presents two different calendaring systems currently in use at two large universities: the University of Washington's UW Calendar, an in-house open source system, and the University of Colorado's WebCal, a customized version of the out-of-the-box SunONE Calendar Server. Both systems attempt to provide a distributed, yet unified, calendar solution for the entire campus communities. We will discuss the initial goals of the projects, implementation and support challenges, current statuses, and the future directions of each university.
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Authentication and authorization are critical pieces to any web application being delivered. To the end user, it is not evident that it is hard and time consuming to do well. Behind the scenes, it is another story. Delivering a new (or repackage an existing) service on the web without spawning yet another unique way of authenticating and authorizing end users was a daunting task.

In this presentation we will discuss how we tackled this issue and how we are empowering our end users with the ability to easily and centrally manage their applications we deliver to them and actually reduce our management costs overall. This is achieved through our strategy of LDAP for centralized identity management and the use of roles within LDAP along with the ability to delegate management of them to our end users.
We will discuss the various challenges and decisions that need to be addressed as well as details on technical implementation.
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Some members of the JA-SIG community are building a new and better Clearinghouse. At the Denver conference in June, we presented some ideas and formed a development team. Come and see our progress, as we move toward a full-fledged product that runs on a uPortal framework. In this presentation we will show the prototype and explain the new features we are incorporating. New search capabilities, roles and permission functionality, and the different types of content that will be stored will be addressed. Future features, such as utilities that will allow easy posting, and administrative functions, will also be discussed.

Who knows? Maybe you’ll be so impressed you’ll want to join our development team?!
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University of California, Irvine recently replaced its paper based job reclassification process with an online application. The application is J2EE compliant, built on top of Expresso open source application development framework and MVC architecture. It utilizes a third party workflow engine from DralaSoft and relies on OpenLDAP and uPortal to surface the workflow tasks to campus Portal users. The presentation will cover the architecture and design of the application, as well as lessons learned. The presentation will end with a live demo of the application.
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This talk will introduce the concept of Rich Internet Applications and how RIA's mesh with an asynchronous, loosely-coupled service oriented architecture. We will share our experience in developing a chemical tracking application using the RIA model in a service oriented architecture at Stanford University's department of Environmental Health and Safety. We will explain both the client and server side architecture of this application and contrast it with the architecture of popular MVC frameworks such as Struts. We will demo the chemical tracking application and a sample of other RIA implementations.
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Cal Poly and the Student World Assembly (http://
student.worldassembly.net) have joined forces to
help foster true global democracy with the help of
uPortal and related Java technologies. Join us to
learn more of this explosive global higher-ed
community, and how these technologies can
empower your students to be a part of this
international movement in the world political arena.
Discover why this pilot project has already engaged
thousands of students from over 30 international
universities to identify, refine, and assert action
concerning political issues of global importance. Cal
Poly and the Student World Assembly are seeking JA-
SIG developer partnerships to evolve these pilot
technologies into a scalable and distributed network
of Student World Assembly polling centers, designed
to facilitate collaboration among SWA participants
from every corner of the geopolitical arena with the
help of Java based technologies including uPortal.

The Venn of Identity, Federation, and secure Web Services - Technical Perspectives on the order of evolving standards.

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Interoperability is not easy – period. There are many choices, including data vocabularies, service definitions, network protocols and programming language bindings, that must all come together to support various goals of interoperability. There does not exist, and likely never will, a single technology that offers the holy-grail interoperability solution in all of its dimensions.

In this address, the state of interoperability specifications and standards will be explored from the perspective of various goals of integration and interoperability. Particular attention will be focus on how a renewed service-based architecture awareness is influencing the global eLearning specifications conversation.

One year after releasing version 1.0 at the
December 2002 JA-SIG conference, CuCMS architect Alex Vigdor returns to demonstrate the many enhancements in the latest release of Columbia University's open-source Content Management System, and discuss plans for the next major release.

CuCMS 1.2 is a robust application producing thousands of web pages across several departments at Columbia from content developed by non-technical staff.
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Fedora is an open-source digital object repository management system that is being jointly developed by the University of Virginia and Cornell University with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This system is designed to be a foundation upon which interoperable web-based digital libraries, institutional repositories and other information management systems can be built and demonstrates how a distributed digital library architecture can be deployed using web-based technologies, including Java, XML, and Web services. For more information see http://www.fedora.info
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The purpose of the OpenEAI Project (http://www.OpenEAI.org) is to discover and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations.

This presentation will describe a comprehensive enterprise application integration methodology, Java message object API, and Java messaging and application foundation components —- all based on open standards, including JMS and XML –- which is at the heart of the OpenEAI Project. This methodology and foundation are used to implement many of the integrations and services required for the University of Illinois’ current ERP implementation (SCT Banner).
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This session is aimed towards providing developers with a head start in portlet development on Sun ONE Portal Server.

Portlets are web components like servlets, but have additional, special properties that allow them to easily plug into and run in enclosing web applications called portals. A portal is a web site that offers personalized content and services from different sources after consolidating it in a single channel. Portal computing, thus, address vast areas of aggregation, personalization, presentation, syndication, security, etc.

For several years Seton Hall University has created Java applications to be used in an academic environment. We call these programs collectively Thinklets; each Thinklet addresses a small, well-defined problem in an academic area, but some are applicable to more general situations. Many of our Thinklets were created as an outgrowth of a faculty-student cooperation, where Seton Hall's Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC) provides the necessary resources and framework.
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