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BCL

BCL

May 25, 2006

uPortal2 Backwards Compatibility Library

Purpose

BCL aims to provide the minimal set of uPortal2 classes necessary to enable channels to work within uPortal3 framework. This includes interfaces and a number of concreete classes. This page outlines what is currently included in the BCL and why.

Content

BCL in uPortal3 (uP2api.jar) currently includes the following classes:
( classes that should be removed, currently broken features)

class

purpose

  • IChannel

  • IMultithreadedChannel

  • IMultithreadedCharacterChannel

  • IMultithreadedCacheable

  • IMultithreadedPrivileged

  • IPrivileged

  • IPrivilegedChannel

Core channel interfaces.
IPrivileged interfaces are supported only formally, since portal control structures obviously can't be replicated in the new framework.

  • ChannelRuntimeData

  • ChannelStaticData

  • ChannelRuntimeProperties

Core classes. These are extended in the uP3 framework.

  • ICCRegistry

  • UPFileSpec

  • BrowserInfo

Additional classes referenced by core classes.

  • IMultithreadedMimeResponse

  • IMultithreadedDirectResponse

  • IMimeResponse

  • IDirectResponse

Custom response interfaces. While the interfaces are included in the library, current adapter implementation does not support this functionality.

  • ICacheable

  • ChannelCacheKey

Caching

  • PortalEvent

  • PortalEventSource

  • PortalException

  • ResourceMissingException

  • GeneralRenderingException

  • AuthorizationException

  • IllegalChannelParameterOverrideException

uP2 event and exception support

  • ErrorID

  • CountID

  • Errors

  • ProblemsTable

uP2 problem tracking classes, since they are referenced from within exception implementations. Will need to move to the uP3 problem management.

  • *ChannelAdapter classes

A set of adapter implementation for existing interface combinations (i.e. MultithreadedPrivilegedCacheableChannelAdapter)

  • PropertiesManager

  • BadPropertyException

  • MissingPropertyException

Properties manager, which is required by several classes within the library (SAX2BufferImpl)

  • BaseChannel

  • BaseMultithreadedChannel

Base channel classes

  • XSLT

  • StylesheetSet

  • StylesheetDescription

  • media.properties

  • mime.properties

channel utilities

  • SAX2BufferImpl

  • SAX2FilterImpl

uP2 filter and buffer implementations used in some of the channels

  • LocaleManager

  • LocaleAwareXSLT

uP2 i18n

  • IUserLayoutManager

  • IUserLayoutManager

  • IUserLayoutChannelDescription

  • IUserLayoutNodeDescription

  • IUserLayout

  • IUserLayoutStore

  • UserPreferences

  • LayoutEventListener

  • UserProfile

  • StructureStylesheetUserPreferences

  • ThemeStylesheetUserPreferences

  • StylesheetUserPreferences

This set of classes is included becase IUserLayoutManager is referenced from ChannelStaticData (for the purposes of persisting channel parameters). Would be nice to remove this dependency, but I am not sure this is doable. Including these is admittedly ugly, but the methods which use IUserLayoutManager are overloaded and never called, so all this is provides is compile-time compatibility.