Channels to be supported in uPortal3

Purpose

This page should describe a list of uPortal2 channels that community would like to see supported by the uPortal3 release. For background, please refer to IChannel Support page. The idea is to use this space to do all of the following:

• Discuss which channels would be important to support and why
• Provide links where the channel source can be found (or uploading it to attachment), and describing basic installations procedures in uPortal2
• Discuss problems and solutions associated with porting individual channels

UBC Webmail

• org.jasig.portal.channels.webmail.security.IOpaqueCredentials is referenced from UBC webmail code. This interface stores password or passphrase information for authentication. We need some replacement for this. Currently(up3-rc1) uP3 does not provide a way to store credentials. This might be an important requirement for multiserver authentication. The related classes in UBC webmail are CachedMultiServerAuthentication, CachedCredentialsAuthentication etc.
• In RUTGERS sepcific case we need to get the location of the user since we have three main campuses located physically far from each other. The PersonImpl is used to get the location of the user that gets populated from the ldap.
• PortalControlStructures is referenced. This object is passed to special channels.
• PortalSessionManager e.g. PortalSessionManager.IDEMPOTENT_URL_TAG
• org.jasig.portal.utils.XML  e.g. XML.serializeNode(doc);

Replacements:

Refactor your code to use following replacement

Announcements (both versions)

UserManager channel (in uP2.5)

Yale menu channel (three of them)

Person attributes

Servants (generic, groups, permissions, address book)

Helpdesk channel (http://esup-helpdesk.sourceforge.net)

Bookmarks

Local connection context requirements (CAS)

Cornell Runtime Information channel

WebCT channels

Rutgers channels

We at Rutgers tried to port our channels to uP3 and got into following issues

Compilation Errors because of some missing API 

           Following is the list of Classes that are required but not there.

• org.jasig.portal.RDBMServices;

• org.jasig.portal.channels.AbstractMultiThreadedCacheable;
• org.jasig.portal.security.IPerson;
• org.jasig.portal.security.provider.PersonImpl;

 Compiliation Errors because of some missing jars

• tidy.jar
• whirlycache-1.0.1.jar