Articles

This page is for collecting links to articles and presentations about uPortal.

• Arizona portal enables groundbreaking K-12 learning network - Network World
  Article about the IDEAL portal project in Arizona.
  Network World
  Deni Connor
  11/21/05

• A Service Oriented Architecture for Portals Using Portlets
  A comparison of portals with treatment of uPortal.
  CCLRC e-Science Centre, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
  Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
  Asif Akram, Dharmesh Chohan, Xiao Dong Wang, Xiaobo Yang and Rob Allan

• Start developing portals with JA-SIG uPortal
  Learn how to get the open source uPortal framework up and running
  JavaWorld 2003 article
  by Brad Rippe

• uPortal: A Common Portal Reference Framework
  Syllabus 2001 article
  by Bernie Gleason (Boston College)

• Institutional Information Portal Key to Web Application Integration
  2001 whitepaper
  by Bernie Gleason (Boston College)

• Electronic Community and Portals
  Holy Cross White Paper
  by Heikki Paadre & Steve King (Holy Cross)

• CSUH Portal Project Proposal
  Cal State Hayward White Paper
  by Dan LeGate

• Institutions Collaborate on Development of Free Portal Software
  Chronicle of Higher Education article
  by Florence Olsen

• Institutional Information Portals
  EDUCAUSE Review
  by Carl Jacobson

• Testing and Proving uPortal's Scalability
  Sun iForce Center, by Jeff Weiss (Sun Microsystems)

• Adopting uPortal Technology
  This powerpoint presentation describes why and how University of Irvine chose uPortal for their institutional portal.
  (Maintained by Katya Sadovsky at University of Irvine)

• Comparison of Oracle Portal to JA-SIG uPortal
  This powerpoint presentation presents a comparison of the Oracle Portal product with uPortal
  (Maintained by Steve Perry at Kansas University Medical Center)

• Security Provider Interface (MSWord format)
  Description of the uPortal Security Provider Interface
  Also available in PDF format
  Currently refers to uPortal 2.* release.
  (Maintained by Andrew Newman at Yale University)

• Understanding uPortal Security and the Yale Central Authentication Server
  This powerpoint presentation will introduce CAS, explain the proxy authentication design and explore how it can be used with uPortal to achieve a secure single signon user experience
  (Maintained by Susan Bramhall, Yale University)

• Searching uPortal Content with a Third-party Search Engine
  This powerpoint presentation will share tips and ingenuit employed by the team at UC Irvine to facilitate the searching of uPortal content with an industry search engine
  (Maintained by Katya Sadovsky, University of California, Irvine)

• Nested Divs
  This document provides installation and configuration information necessary for getting started using the Nested DIVs theme with uPortal.
  Currently refers to uPortal 2.* release.
  (Maintained at Virginia Tech)

• CARs: Learning to Drive with a Channel Archive
  Channel archives, or CARs, are a vehicle for delivering and deploying from one to many related channels and all of their resources both class accessible and web-visible. This powerpoint presentation describes CARs.
  (Maintained by Mark Boyd at SCT Corp.)

• Migrating from version 1.6 to version 2.
  This word document describes the steps that Cal Poly took to migrate from uPortal version 1.6 to version 2.x. (Maintained at Cal Poly )

• Migrating to uPortal 2 at UBC
  This powerpoint presentation describes the steps that UBC took to migrate from uPortal version 1.x to uPortal 2.
  (Maintained by Paul Zablosky, University of British Columbia )

• Old uPortal documentation
  A collection of links and documentation on uPortal
  Mostly refers to uPortal 1.* release.
  (Maintained by Zed Shaw at University of British Columbia) |