Installing Configuring and Customizing uPortal seminar

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Last updated: Jul 21, 2008Version comment

What is this seminar?

This seminar is a basic hands-on introduction to uPortal. In this session, participants complete activities including: build uPortal from source, deploy it into a Tomcat, configure its embedded CAS server, and publish a channel.

This seminar focuses on the newly released uPortal 3.0.0 GA as the basis for its hands on exercises. Conference participants considering attending this seminar should bear in mind that there is significant crossover of concepts and uPortal modules between uPortal 2.6 and the uPortal 3 release evolved from uPortal 2.6, and so this seminar will be appropriate for persons looking to deploy, configure, and customize either uPortal 2.6 or uPortal 3.

Seminar content

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: the uPortal 3 Quickstart

Section 3: Understanding uPortal

Section 4: Building

Bootstrapping the Maven repository

Seminar participants were asked to install a prepopulated Maven repository directory to speed their Maven 2 environment being usable.

Running a uPortal Ant command line tool

Seminar participants were asked to execute the md5passwd Ant target to create a new username/password pair for uPortal.

Section 5: CAS

Seminar participants were asked to configure their uPortal 3 environment to use JASIG's CAS server instance (the instance of the CAS server software that JASIG hosts for use with its deployed web applications).

Seminar participants were asked to configure their uPortal 3 environment to use a different configuration of the JASIG CAS Server than the default configuration shipping with uPortal 3.