Collaborative tools in a portal

Tools:

• Wikis, Content Management, Document Management
• TWiki
• Confluence
• Xythos

User Interface

• What experience do users want?
• What problem(s) are we solving?

  Use cases

  XML Lists of Links

• XML/XSL Channel
• Would like ability to edit in place
• Add/delete content areas
• Talk to Unlicensed user about his bookmark work

Registrar Resources Channel

• Provides an overview of resources, internal and external services
• Simple HTML snippet in proxy channel/portlet

Portal Integration methods/styles

• Aggregate
• SSO

Content Integration

• Recently Updated

Actionable Integration

• Highly structured apps
• Workflow, knowledge management (e.g., 10 documents awaiting your approval).

Authoring:

• Portal Help
• Content Management

Extant Integrations

• PeopleSoft
• Bricolage (Web Proxy)
• URL Harvester
• IFrames

Potential Dev Project: JASIG Click-to-edit JCR Portlet

• Aware of user roles: consumer, editor
• Editing mode my implement FLUID inline editor (simple, rich text not in development yet)
• Implement simple local API
  • Start with something wicked simple, like portlet preferences, hibernate content database
  • Read/write to JCR (Java Content Repository)
  • REST, SOAP?
  • Authentication to external content stores potentially thorny issue (as usual)