Fall 2008 Unconference Topics of Interest

The unconference agenda will be created "on the spot" in Madison based upon what attendees are interested in discussing. This page can be used as a spring board to start the juices flowing by documenting some of the possible topics we could discuss.

Please note: Attendees should sign up on the attendee list where they can also list topics of particular interest or expertise!

  • Using Spring Web Flow 2 for Administrative UIs
  • Portal and portlet health monitoring (is a specific portlet rendering correctly, is the portal rendering correctly, etc)
  • Web Analytics: specifically usage data for the portal and individual portlets
  • Portal & Portlet life-cycle management, including: versioning, deployment strategies, environments, registry information (e.g. functional and technical ownership, support information)
  • Infrastructure architecture: such as high-availability configurations, application servers deployed (e.g. JBoss), middleware being used (e.g. ESB, SOA)
  • Integration with Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Specifically interested in bringing a RIA (Rich Internet App) email portlet into the Portal
  • Continuous Integration
  • Load testing portlets, portal framework
  • CAS 4 Roadmap & Vision
  • CAS Future Protocol Analysis (create a new one, use or extend OpenId, etc.)
  • General Identity Management
  • IdM Registry - Rutgers Open Registry Initiative
  • Fluid component integration
  • CAS as an optional OpenID client (relying party)
  • Collaborating on a shared code base for portal+SIS integration (maybe start with existing Banner portlet work)