Channels to be supported in uPortal3
Purpose
This page should describe a list of uPortal2 channels that community would like to see supported by the uPortal3 release. For background, please refer to IChannel Support page. The idea is to use this space to do all of the following:
- Discuss which channels would be important to support and why
- Provide links where the channel source can be found (or uploading it to attachment), and describing basic installations procedures in uPortal2
- Discuss problems and solutions associated with porting individual channels
UBC Webmail
- org.jasig.portal.channels.webmail.security.IOpaqueCredentials is referenced from UBC webmail code. This interface stores password or passphrase information for authentication. We need some replacement for this. Currently(up3-rc1) uP3 does not provide a way to store credentials.
Announcements (both versions)
UserManager channel (in uP2.5)
Yale menu channel (three of them)
Person attributes
Servants (generic, groups, permissions, address book)
Helpdesk channel (http://esup-helpdesk.sourceforge.net)
Bookmarks
Local connection context requirements (CAS)
Cornell Runtime Information channel
WebCT channels
Rutgers channels
We at Rutgers tried to port our channels to uP3 and got into following issues
Compilation Errors because of some missing API
Following is the list of Classes that are required but not there.
- org.jasig.portal.RDBMServices;
- org.jasig.portal.channels.AbstractMultiThreadedCacheable;
- org.jasig.portal.security.IPerson;
- org.jasig.portal.security.provider.PersonImpl;
Compiliation Errors because of some missing jars
- tidy.jar
- whirlycache-1.0.1.jar