uPortal 3.0.0-M2 Overview

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uPortal 3.0.0-M2 is the second milestone release that includes the following functionality:

  • Portlet Management UI
    • Portlet Application Definition Publishing & Management
    • Portlet Definition Publishing & Management
    • Deleting Portlet Application Definitions and Portlet Definitions via the UI is still incomplete
  • User Authentication
    • The Acegi authentication framework has been integrated
    • A the user admin/admin is available by default for demonstration
  • uPortal 2 Simple Layout Management
    • Layouts for authenticated users may be manipulated using the simple layout manager with integrated modes.
  • Portlet Subscription
    • While manipulating a layout the Subscription Portlet may be used to select published portlets to add to the layout.
  • Hibernate Persistence Layer
    • The core portal DAOs have been moved to use Hibernate 3
  • WSRP producer/consumer
    • uPortal 3 can consume WSRP content and also provide access to its portlets via WSRP
  • Portlet Servant API

This release does not include:

  • Aggregated layout support
  • Authorization
  • Locale Support

To start uPortal 3 on a machine with a locale other than en_US you must first set the locale to en_US. On Linux this is done as follows

export LC_ALL=en_US
export LANG=en_US

uPortal 3 M2 is a functional development portal. You may deploy and publish your own portlets for testing. We would appreciate any and all feedback on the release and please log any bugs you find in Jira: https://clearinghouse.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/UPT