Developer's Guide

The Developer's Guide Outline

1. uPortal APIs
   1. Person Directory
2. Developing Portlets
   1. Recommended Portlet Technologies
   2. Example Portlets
   3. Developing Portlet User Interfaces
      1. CSS Best Practices
      2. Javascript Best Practices
      3. Using the Resource Server
      4. Accessibility and Portlet Development
      5. AJAX in a Portlet
      6. Techniques for integrating AJAX within Spring Web Flow Portlets
      7. Automatically Reload a Portlet
   4. Security Information for Portlet Developers
   5. Portlets using Proxy CAS
   6. Working with the Portlet API
      1. Portlet WindowStates
      2. Portlet Preferences
      3. Accessing Portal Roles & user attributes
      4. Portlet Modes
      5. Portlet Caching
   7. Deploying Portlets to uPortal
   8. Troubleshooting Portlets
3. Incubation Portlets
   1. Ways to Contribute
   2. Guidelines
4. Creating a Theme/Skin
   1. Creating a New Theme
   2. Section 508 compliant themes
   3. donated themes
5. Building the Development Environment
   1. tools 
      1. List of Tools
      2. Eclipse IDE- Eclipse

Misc List to include in outline:

1. cache for portlet
2. usage of portlet preferences
3. getting started with a new project template in eclipse (maven, spring) 
4. hello world of a spring mvc project
5. loading context files
6. using annotations
7. spring mvc validation
8. spring message properties spring:message
9. incorporating junit
10. log4j integration (logging)
11. spring mvc forms
12. binding, commandName, etc...
13. spring + hibernate = insert data into database
14. RSS feed reader
15. view, help, edit functionality in a portlet
16. UserInfo and other information available via API
17. remote development and deployment
18. using subversion
19. css portlet - portlet styling
20. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/Using+Maven+for+your+Jasig+project
21. incorporating an admin and general audience portlet in one