Newsletter - 200901 - January 2009

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1.1 ESUP-Days no 7 (Université Paris Descartes - Le 3 Février 2009)
1.2 JASIG Spring Conference - Dallas, Texas (March 1-4, 2009)
1.3 Open Repositories 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia (May 18-21, 2009)
1.4 JavaOne 2009 - San Francisco, California (June 2-5, 2009)

2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)
2.1.1 CAS Server 4 Updates
2.1.2 CAS Mailing List Migration
2.1.3 From the Blogs...
2.1.4 Newest CAS Deployers
2.2 uPortal
2.2.1 uPortal 3 Adoption
2.2.2 uPortal @ Spring Conference 2009

3.1 Portlet Training - Dallas, TX - March 4-6
3.2 Notes from the Blogosphere (and elsewhere)

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1 Upcoming Events

1.1 ESUP-Days no 7 (Université Paris Descartes - Le 3 Février 2009)

ESUP Days no 7 will be held on February 3rd, 2009 at the Université Paris Descartes. For further information, check the "Source" web site listed below.

Source: http://www.esup-portail.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=45449224

1.2 JASIG Spring Conference - Dallas, Texas (March 1-4, 2009)

THE JA-SIG 2009 CONFERENCE PROGRAM IS ONLINE!

Higher Education Open Source Communities - Working Together
March 1-4, 2009
Dallas, Texas, USA

Registration for the JA-SIG Spring Conference in Dallas is open at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/registration.html and the conference program has been published: http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/program.jsp

You'll find great presentations and supplementary seminars on CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Kuali, Internet2, Sakai, and uPortal--

Conference events run Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th
Supplementary seminars are scheduled all day Sunday and Wednesday afternoon
A BarCamp and a DSpace/Fedora mashup are scheduled for Wednesday afternoon (See the site description for this event)
Extra developer meetings will follow on Thursday and Friday.

You'll find stimulating keynote addresses by--

James Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia
Christian Crumlish, Curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Brewster Kahle, Founder and Director of The Internet Archive

You'll find special sessions, panels, and BOFs addressing strategic issues for open source.

You'll find plenty of opportunities to mix and mingle with colleagues--

Reception on Sunday evening! (featuring "PowerPoint Karoake", a hallowed JA-SIG tradition)
Poster Session with refreshments on Monday evening!
Dallas-Dine-Around on Tuesday evening!

There's never been a better time to register: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/registration.html; But early registration discounts end on January 30, 2009!
Visit the main conference site at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/09spring/index.html for all the details.

Join us to learn more about open/community source projects and technology trends, share ideas and collaborate with your peers. See you in Dallas in March!

-The JA-SIG 2009 Conference Program Committee

1.3 Open Repositories 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia (May 18-21, 2009)

"The 4th annual international Open Repositories Conference will be held May 18th - 21st, 2009 at the Georgia Institute of Technology Hotel and Conference Center and Global Learning Conference Center at Technology Square in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will be hosted by the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center."

Source: https://or09.library.gatech.edu/

1.4 JavaOne 2009 - San Francisco, California (June 2-5, 2009)

"June will be a good time in San Francisco. JavaOne will kick off the month with another amazing event bringing together some of the most influential leaders in technology. Be sure to join us as experts talk about Java technology, RIA's, scripting, JavaFX, Ajax, Web 2.0 and so much more. It's an excellent time to network with peers, be with fellow community members and spend time learning, listening and a week of opportunity."

Source: http://java.sun.com/javaone/index.jsp
Reference: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/

2 JASIG Project Updates

2.1 Central Authentication Service (CAS)

2.1.1 CAS Server 4 Updates
Development on CAS4 continues at a brisk pace. Many of the modules have been converted from CAS3 to CAS4. JCaptcha support has been added to the web application and turned on by default. The majority of the new architecture is in place (it is currently being refined)

Documentation has started to appear in the skeleton CAS4 User Manual: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CAS4UM/Home

Upcoming tasks include:

Inclusion of CAS2 Proxying protocol
UI Work
Internationalization
SAML2 Support

We're currently looking for volunteers to help gather requirements for the following areas:

Monitoring
Services Management Tool

2.1.2 CAS Mailing List Migration

On February 4, 2009, the CAS Community and CAS Developer lists will be migrated to the listserve used by the other JASIG community lists. Information about these replacement lists can be found on the JASIG wiki at http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/CAS+Lists.

The move will happen from 10:00am-Noon ET on Wednesday, February 4. At that time the old lists (cas@tp.its.yale.edu and cas-dev@tp.its.yale.edu) will no longer accept posts or subscriptions. List membership will be transferred over and all new posts should be sent to the new lists.
If you have questions or experience problems regarding the transition, please send email to Scott Battaglia <scott_battaglia@rutgers.edu> or email-admin@ja-sig.org.

We apologize in advance if for any inconvenience but we believe this effort will help make the delivery of JASIG services more consistent.

Thank you.

2.1.3 From the Blogs...
There has been some work in order to get CAS4 to integrate with JaValid for validation of Spring bean properties. Read about it: http://www.scottbattaglia.com/2009/01/08/using-javalid-with-spring-to-validate-beans-during-post-processing/

CAS4 will be using Spring Web Flow 2, JUEL, and JaValid. Read about integrating them together: http://www.scottbattaglia.com/2008/12/17/spring-web-flow-2-and-juel-integration/

2.1.4 Newest CAS Deployers

University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you're a new deployer, please contact Scott Battaglia (scott.battaglia at gmail.com) to let him know. We'd love to add you to our list.

2.2 uPortal

2.2.1 uPortal at the JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference

The conference program is now posted and it includes a large variety of uPortal/portlet related seminars, sessions and "birds of a feather" discussion groups. The Barcamp on Wednesday afternoon of that week promises to be a great place to talk about portal development and implementation with your colleagues. After the conference, you can also stay for the uPortal developers meeting.

2.2.2 uPortal Developers Meet in Dallas

Following the JA-SIG Spring 2009 Conference in Dallas, on Thursday and Friday of that week there will be a uPortal developers meeting. This is an open meeting for anyone doing development related to uPortal. This can range from writing portlets, implementing uPortal at your institution, customizing the platform for your needs, or doing uPortal framework development. The two days will be very loosely organized and are primarily a chance for you to work in the same proximity as your peers. It is a great opportunity to share ideas or get assistance. Check out the wiki page http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/nwleAQ and sign up if you are going to be there.

3 Around JASIG

3.1 Portlet Training - Dallas, TX - March 4-6

Cris Holdorph (Unicon) will be teaching a Portlet Development Training class for Unicon in Dallas Texas, to coincide with the JA-SIG Spring Conference.

The training will be on Wednesday, March 4 from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Thursday, March 5 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Friday March 6 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. It will be held in the same hotel as the JA-SIG Spring Conference: The Sheraton Dallas Hotel.

This class serves as an introduction and guide to developing JSR 168 standards-compliant Java Portlets. Lecture and hands-on exercises range from the building and deployment of Portlets to techniques for organizing code in a clean, architecturally-sound way. Topics include:

JSR 168 Portlet specification overview
JSR 168 Portlet API
Obtaining 3rd-party portlets
Portlet installation and development
Development Environment
Advanced portlet applications
Portlet security and more

The cost for the class is $2,500 per person, with an early registration discount. The hotel will also honor the conference rate for the extended time.

Space is limited to 10 participants and it is filling up quickly, so please register here http://www.unicon.net/node/1149 ASAP if you are interested.

You may also e-mail Cris directly (holdorph at unicon dot net) if you have questions about the content or what is covered in the class.

3.2 Notes from the Blogosphere (and elsewhere)

There is no shortage of great Jasig community blogs, wikis, and other presentations for your reading and viewing pleasure, and here are just a few to further whet your appetite:

DSpace Bloggers http://www.dspace.org/index.php/Blogging-About-DSpace/Bloggers.html

Fedora Commons Hatcheck Newsletter http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/

Internet2 Real Time Blog https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/realtime/News

Luminis Developers Blog (on lumdev) http://www.lumdev.net/blog

Michael Korcuska's Sakai Blog http://sakaiblog.korcuska.net/

Unicon Blog http://www.unicon.net/blog

Zimbra Blog http://www.zimbrablog.com/

2007 EDUCAUSE Catalyst Award - JASIG uPortal (on YouTube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsxmkSShuWE

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JASIG Newsletter - January 2009
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