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JASIG Newsletter - December 2008
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 JASIG Spring Conference - Dallas, Texas (March 1-4, 2009)
1.2 EclipseCon 2009 - Santa Clara, California (March 23-26, 2009)
1.3 JavaOne 2009 - San Francisco, California (June 2-5, 2009)
1.4 O'Reilly OSCON 2009 - San Jose, California (July 20-24, 2009)
2 JASIG Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS4 Blog Entries & Code
2.1.2 CAS Steering Committee Update
2.1.3 CAS Client for Java 3.1.5 Release
2.1.4 CAS in the Wild
2.1.5 CAS Deployers
2.1.6 CAS @ the Upcoming Conference
2.1.7 Hobsons EMT Connect CRM to Include CAS Support
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3 Adoption
2.2.2 uPortal @ Spring Conference 2009
3 Around JASIG
3.1 Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Platform Training and Portlet Development Training
3.2 Webinar - Take a Guided Tour of uPortal 3 (Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2 pm Eastern)
4 Notes from the Open Source Community
4.1 MySQL Opens Opportunities in Education
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1 Upcoming Events
1.1 JASIG Spring Conference - Dallas, Texas (March 1-4, 2009)
"Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together"
March 1-4, 2009
Dallas, Texas, USA
"The JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to meet and learn from each other. We're hoping to see you there!"
Spring Conference - Supplementary Seminars: Following the great success of last year's conference, JA-SIG (home of uPortal and CAS) is partnering with DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Kuali, Internet2, and Sakai to bring you a diverse and enriching conference program and seminar lineup.
- Keynote speeches by James Hilton, Christian Crumlish, and Brewster Kahle!
- Conference events run Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th
- Supplementary seminars are scheduled all day Sunday and Wednesday afternoon
- A BarCamp is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon
- Developer meetings will follow on Thursday and Friday
Early registration discounts end January 30, 2009. Register now at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminars.html-sig.org/conferences/09spring/registration.html .
Join us to learn more about community source projects and technology trends, share ideas and collaborate with your peers. See you in Dallas in March!
Spring Conference Home: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html
1.2 EclipseCon 2009 - Santa Clara, California (March 23-26, 2009)
"The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce EclipseCon 2009, March 23rd - 26th, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. The entire Eclipse community is invited to participate."
Source: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/
Official Blog: http://eclipsecon.blogspot.com/
1.3 JavaOne 2009 - San Francisco, California (June 2-5, 2009)
"June will be a good time in San Francisco. JavaOne will kick off the month with another amazing event bringing together some of the most influential leaders in technology. Be sure to join us as experts talk about Java technology, RIA's, scripting, JavaFX, Ajax, Web 2.0 and so much more. It's an excellent time to network with peers, be with fellow community members and spend time learning, listening and a week of opportunity."
Source: http://java.sun.com/javaone/index.jsp
Reference: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
1.4 O'Reilly OSCON 2009 - San Jose, California (July 20-24, 2009)
"Join us at OSCON 2009, the crossroads of all things open source. Come together with 3,000 of the best, brightest, and most interesting people to explore what's new and to help define, maintain, and extend the identity of what it means to be open source. OSCON is the place to be inspired and challenged, renew bonds to community, make new connections, and discover the most relevant projects and products to help you do your best."
Source: OSCON (Open Source Convention) web site: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/content/home
2 JASIG Project Updates
2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS4 Blog Entries & Code
Scott Battaglia, Lead Architect of JASIG Central Authentication Service, has taken to his blog in an effort for a more transparent development process. You can find three entries related to the design, architecture, and configuration here:
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These blog entries, in combination with the list, will be used to solicit feedback about design and extension points, as well as common use cases. We encourage you to contribute to the discussion on whichever medium suits you (either blog or mailing list).
2.1.2 CAS Steering Committee Update
The CAS Steering Committee continues to provide general guidance and proposals for the CAS Community. The Steering Committee is currently working on (1) suggestions for suggesting enhancements to both the CAS protocol and the CAS software and (2) guidelines for contributing to the CAS project. All CAS Steering Committee meeting announcements and notes can be found in their Wiki Space: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASST/Home
The steering committee also hosts monthly community conference calls. Interested parties should contact Benn Oshrin or Scott Battaglia.
2.1.3 CAS Client for Java 3.1.5 Release
The JASIG CAS Client for Java 3.1.5 has been released. It should start appearing in the Public Maven2 repository by 12/19/2008. This release includes a fix to restore Java 1.4 JVM compile-time compatibility as well as fix the JIRA support so that it actually works.
2.1.4 CAS in the Wild
- The next release of Spring Security will include the JASIG CAS Client for Java 3.1.5
- CAS4 code has started to appear in the JASIG Subversion repository.
2.1.5 CAS Deployers
If you're a new CAS deployer, please take a moment to let us know by emailing Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia@gmail.com>.
2.1.6 CAS @ the Upcoming Conference
While presentation proposals are still be drafted, we do know that there will be a Pre-Conference seminar given by Adam Rybicki, VP @ Unicon on CAS3: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminars.html
2.1.7 Hobsons EMT Connect CRM to Include CAS Support
Hobsons's upcoming EMT Connect CRM product will include support for JASIG CAS. For more information, please see their press release: http://pr-gb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65159&Itemid=34
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3 Adoption
This year has been a busy one for those institutions implementing uPortal 3. Read all about their efforts on the JASIG wiki at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/vQXP . If you are investigating the adoption of uPortal 3.X and have not yet including your institution's information on this page, please do so. We'd love to hear your story.
2.2.2 uPortal @ Spring Conference 2009
Are you going to Spring Conference 2009 in Dallas ("Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together")? Consider registrating registering for a Supplementary Seminar. Offerings include "Migrating to uPortal 3", "Skinning uPortal 3", and "Getting Started with uPortal".uPortal 3", and "Getting Started with uPortal". See the wiki page for more details: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/seminars.html
3 Around JASIG
3.1 Unicon Announces uPortal 3 Platform Training and Portlet Development Training
Phoenix, AZ - December 16, 2008 — Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source software consulting services for the education market, today announced it will be offering uPortal 3 training courses to enterprise IT staff and Web portal developers interested in attending a 3-day, hands-on session covering everything from introductory basics to authentication and portlet development. The first training course titled, "uPortal 3.0 Platform Training", will take place January 20-22, 2009 at Unicon's corporate offices in Chandler, Arizona. The second course titled, "Portlet Development Training" will take place March 5-7, 2009 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas and coincides with the JA-SIG Spring Conference. For more information or to register for the training courses, visit: http://www.unicon.net/company/news/events.
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uPortal 3.0 Platform Training Overview
This course serves as an introduction and guide to portals, portlets, and uPortal and encompasses best practices for leveraging the open-source uPortal software and its community. Topics include: uPortal Overview, Authentication and Authorization, Groups and Permissions Framework, Aggregated and Template Layouts, Administrative Channels, Permissions Manager, Accessing User Attributes and Information and more.
Portlet Development Training Overview
This course serves as an introduction and guide to developing standards-compliant portlets and covers items from the Portlet API and the building and deployment of portlets to techniques for organizing code in a clean architecturally-sound way. uPortal is used as the portal platform during the course, but the portlet development skills apply to any JSR 168 compliant platform. Topics include: Portlet Specification Overview, Apache Pluto Overview, Portlet API, Obtaining 3rd-party Portlets, Portlet Installation, Development Environment, Use of Eclipse IDE, Hello World Portlet, Advanced Portlet Applications, Portlet Security, Debugging Portlets, Using WSRP, and uPortal Roadmap.
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Unicon is a Registered Trademark of Unicon, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
3.2 Webinar - Take a Guided Tour of uPortal 3 (Thursday, January 15, 2009, 2 pm Eastern)
"Explore uPortal 3's capabilities, tools, and best practices" with Unicon's Andrew Petro.
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Source: Unicon @ http://www.unicon.net
4 Notes from the Open Source Community
4.1 MySQL Opens Opportunities in Education
On campus, open source is opening opportunities. Consider Mark Zuckerberg, former Harvard University undergrad.
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With Sun's commitment to education and enhancements to MySQL, the open opportunities for academia are broader than ever. .
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Happy Holidays!
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JASIG Newsletter - December 2008
wiki-copy: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/Newsletter+-+200812+-+December+2008Archives available in the JASIG wiki at: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/Newsletter
A special thanks to Scott Battaglia, Eric Dalquist, Jonathan Markow, and Andrew Petro for assistance and advice on this issue.
If your institution or company has items of interest to the JASIG membership, please submit them via email to newsletter at ja-sig dot org.
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