[portal-commits] JBoss Portal SVN: r8364 - in docs/trunk: quickstartuser/en and 5 other directories.

Author: thomas.heute(a)jboss.com Date: 2007-09-19 09:24:26 -0400 (Wed, 19 Sep 2007) New Revision: 8364 Added: docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/modules/overview.xml docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/overview.xml docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/overview.xml Modified: docs/trunk/common/en/modules/featurelist.xml docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/master.xml docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/master.xml docs/trunk/userGuide/en/master.xml Log: Rollbacking Modified: docs/trunk/common/en/modules/featurelist.xml =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/common/en/modules/featurelist.xml 2007-09-19 12:54:55 UTC (rev 8363) +++ docs/trunk/common/en/modules/featurelist.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ Will work with any RDBMS supported by Hibernate </listitem> <listitem> - <emphasis role="bold">SSO/LDAP:</emphasis> - Leverages Tomcat and JBoss single sign on (SSO) - solutions. - Identity mapping framework adaptable to the enterprise LDAP deployments. - </listitem> - <listitem> <emphasis role="bold">JAAS Authentication:</emphasis> Custom authentication via JAAS login modules. </listitem> Modified: docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/master.xml =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/master.xml 2007-09-19 12:54:55 UTC (rev 8363) +++ docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/master.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3CR3//EN" "../../docbook-support/support/docbook-dtd/docbookx.dtd" [ -<!ENTITY overview SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/overview.xml"> +<!ENTITY overview SYSTEM "modules/overview.xml"> <!ENTITY forward SYSTEM "modules/forward.xml"> <!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "modules/installation.xml"> <!ENTITY portalterminology SYSTEM "modules/portalterminology.xml"> Copied: docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/modules/overview.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/modules/overview.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/modules/overview.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/quickstartuser/en/modules/overview.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<preface id="overview"> + <title>JBoss Portal - Overview</title> + + <para> + <imageobject> + <imagedata align="center" fileref="images/image002.png" format="PNG" + valign="middle" /> + </imageobject> + </para> + + <para>Many IT organizations look to achieve a competitive advantage for the + enterprise by improving business productivity and reducing costs. Today's + top enterprises are realizing this goal by deploying enterprise portals + within their IT infrastructure. Enterprise portals simplify access to + information by providing a single source of interaction with corporate + information. Although today's packaged portal frameworks help enterprises + launch portals more quickly, only JBoss Portal can deliver the benefits of a + zero-cost open source license combined with a flexible and scalable + underlying platform.</para> + + <para>JBoss Portal provides an open source and standards-based environment + for hosting and serving a portal's Web interface, publishing and managing + its content, and customizing its experience. It is entirely standards-based + and supports the JSR-168 portlet specification, which allows you to easily + plug-in standards-compliant portlets to meet your specific portal needs. + JBoss Portal is available through the business-friendly <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/opensource/lgpl/faq">LGPL</ulin... open source + license and is supported by <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.com/services/index">Red Hat</ulink>. Red Hat support + services are available to assist you in designing, developing, deploying, + and ultimately managing your portal environment. JBoss Portal is currently + developed by Red Hat, Inc. developers, and community contributors. </para> + + <para>The JBoss Portal framework and architecture includes the portal + container and supports a wide range of features including standard portlets, + single sign-on, clustering and internationalization. Portal themes and + layouts are configurable. Users have the ability to fully customize thier + own personal portal pages. Fine-grained security administration down to + portlet permissions rounds out the security model. JBoss Portal includes a + rich content management system with approval cycle support.</para> + + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">JBoss Portal Resources:</emphasis> + + <orderedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.jboss.org/products/jbossportal">JBoss Portal + Project Home Page</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink + url="http://labs.jboss.com/jbossportal/download/index.html">... + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink + url="http://labs.jboss.com/jbossportal/docs/index.html">Docu... + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>Forums: <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + | <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=main&a... + | <ulink + url="http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + Portlet Plugin</ulink> </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossPortal">Wi... + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.portletswap.com">PortletSwap.com portlet + exchange</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink + url="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL?report=com.atlassian... + Roadmap</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + </orderedlist> + </para> + + <para>The JBoss Portal team encourages you to use this guide to install and + configure JBoss Portal. If you encounter any configuration issues or simply + want to take part in our community, we would love to hear from you in our + forums.</para> +</preface> Modified: docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/master.xml =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/master.xml 2007-09-19 12:54:55 UTC (rev 8363) +++ docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/master.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3CR3//EN" "../../docbook-support/support/docbook-dtd/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY overview SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/overview.xml"> - <!ENTITY featurelist SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/featurelist.xml"> + <!ENTITY overview SYSTEM "modules/overview.xml"> + <!ENTITY featurelist SYSTEM "modules/featurelist.xml"> <!ENTITY target SYSTEM "modules/target.xml"> - <!ENTITY acknowledgements SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml"> + <!ENTITY acknowledgements SYSTEM "modules/acknowledgements.xml"> <!ENTITY supported SYSTEM "modules/supported.xml"> <!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "modules/installation.xml"> <!ENTITY configuration SYSTEM "modules/configuration.xml"> Copied: docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +<preface id="acknowledgements"> + <title>Acknowledgements</title> + <para>We would like to thank the developers that participate in the JBoss Portal project effort.</para> + <para>Specifically,</para> + <para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + Antoine Herzog for his feedback, for writing Wikis and helping in the forums. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Mark Fernandes and Paul Tamaro from Novell, for their hard work in supplying the + portal project with usable and attractive themes and layouts in the 2.4 version of JBoss Portal. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Martin Holzner from Novell, for his work on themes in the 2.4 version of JBoss Portal. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Kev "kevs3d" Roast for supplying us with two working portlets that integrate existing + frameworks in to the portal: Sun JSF-RI and Spring MVC Portlet. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Swarn "sdhaliwal" Dhaliwal for supplying us with the Struts-Bridge, that will allow + for existing struts applications to work with the Portal. + </listitem> + <listitem> + A few Red Hat employees, Remy Maucherat for Tomcat configuration, Magesh Kumar Bojan and Martin Putz always there to help our customers, + Prabhat Jha for making sure that JBoss Portal runs great everywhere. Noel Rocher for his early feedback on JBoss Portal 2.6 + and contributions. James Cobb for the Renaissance theme. + </listitem> + <listitem> + The JBoss Labs (http://www.JBoss.org) team for building a great infrastructure on top of JBoss Portal 2.6, providing very useful feedback and + giving us the initial Drag and Drop implementation. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Everyone participating in the forums and Wiki in general. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para>Contributions of any kind are always welcome, you can contribute by providing ideas, + filling bug reports, producing some code, designing a theme, writing some documentation, + etc... If you think your name is missing from this page, please let us know.</para> +</preface> \ No newline at end of file Copied: docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,263 @@ +<preface id="features"> + <title>Feature List</title> + <para>The following list details features found in this document's related release. For a + technical view of our features, view the + <ulink + url="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL">Project Roadmap and Task List</ulink> + . + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Technology and Architecture</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">JEMS:</emphasis> + Leverages the power of JBoss Enterprise Middleware + Services : JBoss Application Server, JBoss Cache, JGroups, and Hibernate. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">DB Agnostic:</emphasis> + Will work with any RDBMS supported by Hibernate + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">SSO/LDAP:</emphasis> + Leverages Tomcat and JBoss single sign on (SSO) + solutions. + Identity mapping framework adaptable to the enterprise LDAP deployments. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">JAAS Authentication:</emphasis> + Custom authentication via JAAS login modules. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Cacheing:</emphasis> + Utilizes render-view caching for improved performance. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Clusterable:</emphasis> + Cluster support allows for portal state to be + clustered for all portal instances. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Hot-Deployment:</emphasis> + Leverages JBoss dynamic auto deployment + features. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">SAR Installer:</emphasis> + Browser-based installer makes installation + and initial configuration a breeze. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Supported Standards</emphasis> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Portlet Specification and API 1.0 (JSR-168)</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Content Repository for Java Technology API (JSR-170)</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Java Server Faces 1.2 (JSR-252)</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Java Management Extension (JMX) 1.2</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 1.0</emphasis> + See <ulink url="http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.6/reference-guide/en/html/wsr... + support in Portal</ulink> for more details. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Full J2EE 1.4 compliance when used with JBoss AS</emphasis> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Portal and Portal Container</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Multiple Portal Instances:</emphasis> + Ability to have multiple Portal + instances running inside of one Portal container. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis> + Inter-Portlet Communication API enables portlets to create links to other + objects such as a page, portal or window . + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Dynamicity</emphasis> + The ability for administrators and users to create and destroy objects such as + portlets, pages, portals, themes, and layouts at runtime. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Internationalization:</emphasis> + Ability to use internationalization + resource files for every portlet. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Pluggable services:</emphasis> + Authentication performed by the + servlet container and JAAS make it possible to swap the authentication scheme. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Page-based Architecture:</emphasis> + Allows for the grouping/division + of portlets on a per-page basis. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Existing Framework support:</emphasis> + Portlets utilizing Struts, + Spring MVC, Sun JSF-RI, AJAX, or MyFaces are supported. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Themes and Layouts</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Easily swappable themes/layouts:</emphasis> + New themes and layouts + containing images can be deployed in WAR archives. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Flexible API:</emphasis> + Theme and Layout API are designed to + separate the business layer from the presentation layer. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Per-page layout strategy:</emphasis> + Different layouts can be + assigned to different pages. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">User and Group Functionality</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">User registration/validation:</emphasis> + Configurable registration + parameters allow for user email validation before activation. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">User login:</emphasis> + Makes use of servlet container authentication. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Create/Edit Users:</emphasis> + Ability for administrators to + create/edit user profiles. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Create/Edit Roles:</emphasis> + Ability for administrators create/edit + roles. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Role Assignment:</emphasis> + Ability for administrators to assign + users to roles. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Permissions Management</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Extendable permissions API:</emphasis> + Allows custom portlets + permissions based on role definition. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Administrative interface:</emphasis> + Allows for permissions + assignments to roles at any time for any deployed portlet, page, or portal instance. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Content Management System</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">JCR-compliant:</emphasis> + The CMS is powered by Apache Jackrabbit, an open source implementation + of the Java Content Repository API. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">DB or Filesystem store support:</emphasis> + Configurable content store + to either a filesystem or RDBMS. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">External Blob Support:</emphasis> + Configurable content store allowing + large blobs to reside on filesystem and content node references/properties to reside in + RDBMS. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Versioning support:</emphasis> + All content edited/created is + autoversioned with a history of edits that can be viewed at any time. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Content Serving Search-engine-friendly URLS:</emphasis> + http://yourdomain/portal/content/index.html (Does not apply to portlet actions.) + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">No long portal URLS:</emphasis> + Serve binaries with simple urls. + (http://domain/files/products.pdf) + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Multiple HTML Portlet instance support:</emphasis> + Allows for extra + instances of static content from the CMS to be served under separate windows. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Directory Support:</emphasis> + create, move, delete, copy, and upload + entire directory trees. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">File Functions:</emphasis> + create, move, copy, upload, and delete + files. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Embedded directory-browser:</emphasis> + When copying, moving, + deleting, or creating files, administrators can simply navigate the directory tree to find + the collection they want to perform the action on. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Ease-of-use architecture:</emphasis> + All actions to be performed on + files and folder are one mouse-click away. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Full-featured HTML editor:</emphasis> + HTML Editor contains WYSIWYG + mode, preview functionality, and HTML source editting mode. HTML commands support tables, + fonts, zooming, image and url linking, flash movie support, bulleted and numbered list, and + dozens more. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Editor style-sheet support:</emphasis> + WYSIWYG editor displays + current Portal style-sheet, for easy choosing of classes. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Internationalization Support:</emphasis> + Content can be attributed to a specific locale and then served + to the user based on his/her browser settings. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Workflow Support:</emphasis> + Basic submit for review and approval process. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> +</preface> Copied: docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/overview.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/overview.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/overview.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/referenceGuide/en/modules/overview.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +<preface id="overview"> + <title>JBoss Portal - Overview</title> + <para> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="images/setup/default_ss.jpg" format="jpg" align="center" + valign="middle"/> + </imageobject> + </para> + <para>Many IT organizations look to achieve a competitive advantage for the enterprise by + improving business productivity and reducing costs. Today's top enterprises are realizing this + goal by deploying enterprise portals within their IT infrastructure. Enterprise portals + simplify access to information by providing a single source of interaction with corporate + information. Although today's packaged portal frameworks help enterprises launch portals more + quickly, only JBoss Portal can deliver the benefits of a zero-cost open source license, + combined with a flexible and scalable underlying platform. + </para> + <para>JBoss Portal provides an open source and standards-based environment for hosting and + serving a portal's Web interface, publishing and managing its content, and customizing its + experience. It is entirely standards-based and supports the JSR-168 portlet specification, + which allows you to easily plug-in standards-compliant portlets to meet your specific portal + needs. JBoss Portal is available through the business-friendly + <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.com/company/aboutopensource">LGPL + </ulink> + open source license and is + supported by + <ulink url="http://www.jboss.com/services/index">Red Hat Middleware, LLC Professional Support + and Consulting + </ulink> + . JBoss support services are available to assist you in designing, + developing, deploying, and ultimately managing your portal environment. JBoss Portal is + currently developed by Red Hat Middleware, LLC developers and community contributors. + </para> + <para>The JBoss Portal framework and architecture includes the portal container and supports a + wide range of features including standard portlets, single sign-on, clustering and + internationalization. Portal themes and layouts are configurable. Fine-grained security + administration down to portlet permissions rounds out the security model. JBoss Portal + includes a rich content management system and message board support. + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">JBoss Portal Resources:</emphasis> + <orderedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.jboss.org/products/jbossportal">JBoss Portal Home Page</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>Forums: + <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + >User + </ulink> + | + <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + >Developer + </ulink> + | + <ulink url="http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.jboss.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossPortal">Wi... + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.portletswap.com">PortletSwap.com portlet exchange</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink + url="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL?report=com.atlassian... + >Our Roadmap + </ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + </orderedlist> + </para> + <para>The JBoss Portal team encourages you to use this guide to install and configure JBoss + Portal. If you encounter any configuration issues or simply want to take part in our + community, we would love to hear from you in our forums. + </para> +</preface> Modified: docs/trunk/userGuide/en/master.xml =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/userGuide/en/master.xml 2007-09-19 12:54:55 UTC (rev 8363) +++ docs/trunk/userGuide/en/master.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3CR3//EN" "../../docbook-support/support/docbook-dtd/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY overview SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/overview.xml"> - <!ENTITY featurelist SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/featurelist.xml"> + <!ENTITY overview SYSTEM "modules/overview.xml"> + <!ENTITY featurelist SYSTEM "modules/featurelist.xml"> <!ENTITY target SYSTEM "modules/target.xml"> - <!ENTITY acknowledgements SYSTEM "../../common/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml"> + <!ENTITY acknowledgements SYSTEM "modules/acknowledgements.xml"> <!ENTITY intro SYSTEM "modules/intro.xml"> <!ENTITY dynamicity SYSTEM "modules/dynamicity.xml"> <!ENTITY CMSAdmin SYSTEM "modules/admincmsPortlet.xml"> Copied: docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/acknowledgements.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +<preface id="acknowledgements"> + <title>Acknowledgements</title> + <para>We would like to thank the developers that participate in the JBoss Portal project effort.</para> + <para>Specifically,</para> + <para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + Antoine Herzog for his feedback, for writing Wikis and helping in the forums. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Mark Fernandes and Paul Tamaro from Novell, for their hard work in supplying the + portal project with usable and attractive themes and layouts in the 2.4 version of JBoss Portal. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Martin Holzner from Novell, for his work on themes in the 2.4 version of JBoss Portal. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Kev "kevs3d" Roast for supplying us with two working portlets that integrate existing + frameworks in to the portal: Sun JSF-RI and Spring MVC Portlet. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Swarn "sdhaliwal" Dhaliwal for supplying us with the Struts-Bridge, that will allow + for existing struts applications to work with the Portal. + </listitem> + <listitem> + A few Red Hat employees, Remy Maucherat for Tomcat configuration, Magesh Kumar Bojan and Martin Putz always there to help our customers, + Prabhat Jha for making sure that JBoss Portal runs great everywhere. Noel Rocher for his early feedback on JBoss Portal 2.6 + and contributions. James Cobb for the Renaissance theme. + </listitem> + <listitem> + The JBoss Labs (http://www.JBoss.org) team for building a great infrastructure on top of JBoss Portal 2.6, providing very useful feedback and + giving us the initial Drag and Drop implementation. + </listitem> + <listitem> + Everyone participating in the forums and Wiki in general. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para>Contributions of any kind are always welcome, you can contribute by providing ideas, + filling bug reports, producing some code, designing a theme, writing some documentation, + etc... If you think your name is missing from this page, please let us know.</para> +</preface> \ No newline at end of file Copied: docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/featurelist.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,293 @@ +<preface id="features"> + <title>Feature List</title> + <para>The following list details features found in this document's related release. For a + technical view of our features, view the + <ulink + url="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL">Project Roadmap and Task List</ulink> + . + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Technology and Architecture</emphasis> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">JEMS:</emphasis> + Leverages the power of JBoss Enterprise Middleware + Services : JBoss Application Server, JBoss Cache, JGroups, and Hibernate. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">DB Agnostic:</emphasis> + Will work with any RDBMS supported by Hibernate + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">SSO/LDAP:</emphasis> + Leverages Tomcat and JBoss single sign on (SSO) + solutions. + Identity mapping framework adaptable to the enterprise LDAP deployments. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">JAAS Authentication:</emphasis> + Custom authentication via JAAS login modules. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Cacheing:</emphasis> + Utilizes render-view caching for improved performance. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Clusterable:</emphasis> + Cluster support allows for portal state to be + clustered for all portal instances. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Hot-Deployment:</emphasis> + Leverages JBoss dynamic auto deployment + features. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">SAR Installer:</emphasis> + Browser-based installer makes installation + and initial configuration a breeze. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Single Sign On</emphasis> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Leverages Tomcat and JBoss single sign on (SSO) solutions.</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Integrates with JOSSO and CAS out of the box. (Experimental support for Open SSO)</emphasis> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">LDAP</emphasis> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Connect to virtually any LDAP server</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Integrates with Sun Active Directory and OpenLDAP out of the box. (Experimental support for Active Directory)</emphasis> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Supported Standards</emphasis> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Portlet Specification and API 1.0 (JSR-168)</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Content Repository for Java Technology API (JSR-170)</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Java Server Faces 1.2 (JSR-252)</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Java Management Extension (JMX) 1.2</emphasis> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 1.0</emphasis> + See <ulink url="http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.6/reference-guide/en/html/wsr... + support in Portal</ulink> for more details. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Full J2EE 1.4 compliance when used with JBoss AS</emphasis> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Portal and Portal Container</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Multiple Portal Instances:</emphasis> + Ability to have multiple Portal + instances running inside of one Portal container. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">IPC</emphasis> + Inter-Portlet Communication API enables portlets to create links to other + objects such as a page, portal or window . + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Dynamicity</emphasis> + The ability for administrators and users to create and destroy objects such as + portlets, pages, portals, themes, and layouts at runtime. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Internationalization:</emphasis> + Ability to use internationalization + resource files for every portlet. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Pluggable services:</emphasis> + Authentication performed by the + servlet container and JAAS make it possible to swap the authentication scheme. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Page-based Architecture:</emphasis> + Allows for the grouping/division + of portlets on a per-page basis. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Existing Framework support:</emphasis> + Portlets utilizing Struts, + Spring MVC, Sun JSF-RI, AJAX, or MyFaces are supported. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Themes and Layouts</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Easily swappable themes/layouts:</emphasis> + New themes and layouts + containing images can be deployed in WAR archives. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Flexible API:</emphasis> + Theme and Layout API are designed to + separate the business layer from the presentation layer. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Per-page layout strategy:</emphasis> + Different layouts can be + assigned to different pages. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">User and Group Functionality</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">User registration/validation:</emphasis> + Configurable registration + parameters allow for user email validation before activation. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Workflow:</emphasis> + Ability to define your own jBPM workflow on user registration. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">User login:</emphasis> + Makes use of servlet container authentication. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Create/Edit Users:</emphasis> + Ability for administrators to + create/edit user profiles. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Create/Edit Roles:</emphasis> + Ability for administrators create/edit + roles. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Role Assignment:</emphasis> + Ability for administrators to assign + users to roles. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Captcha support:</emphasis> + To distinct humans from machines when registering. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Permissions Management</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Extendable permissions API:</emphasis> + Allows custom portlets + permissions based on role definition. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Administrative interface:</emphasis> + Allows for permissions + assignments to roles at any time for any deployed portlet, page, or portal instance. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">Content Management System</emphasis> + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">JCR-compliant:</emphasis> + The CMS is powered by Apache Jackrabbit, an open source implementation + of the Java Content Repository API. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">DB or Filesystem store support:</emphasis> + Configurable content store + to either a filesystem or RDBMS. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">External Blob Support:</emphasis> + Configurable content store allowing + large blobs to reside on filesystem and content node references/properties to reside in + RDBMS. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Versioning support:</emphasis> + All content edited/created is + autoversioned with a history of edits that can be viewed at any time. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Content Serving Search-engine-friendly URLS:</emphasis> + http://yourdomain/portal/content/index.html (Does not apply to portlet actions.) + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">No long portal URLS:</emphasis> + Serve binaries with simple urls. + (http://domain/files/products.pdf) + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Multiple HTML Portlet instance support:</emphasis> + Allows for extra + instances of static content from the CMS to be served under separate windows. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Directory Support:</emphasis> + create, move, delete, copy, and upload + entire directory trees. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">File Functions:</emphasis> + create, move, copy, upload, and delete + files. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Embedded directory-browser:</emphasis> + When copying, moving, + deleting, or creating files, administrators can simply navigate the directory tree to find + the collection they want to perform the action on. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Ease-of-use architecture:</emphasis> + All actions to be performed on + files and folder are one mouse-click away. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Full-featured HTML editor:</emphasis> + HTML Editor contains WYSIWYG + mode, preview functionality, and HTML source editting mode. HTML commands support tables, + fonts, zooming, image and url linking, flash movie support, bulleted and numbered list, and + dozens more. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Editor style-sheet support:</emphasis> + WYSIWYG editor displays + current Portal style-sheet, for easy choosing of classes. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Internationalization Support:</emphasis> + Content can be attributed to a specific locale and then served + to the user based on his/her browser settings. + </listitem> + <listitem> + <emphasis role="bold">Workflow Support:</emphasis> + Basic submit for review and approval process. + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> +</preface> Copied: docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/overview.xml (from rev 8362, docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/overview.xml) =================================================================== --- docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/overview.xml (rev 0) +++ docs/trunk/userGuide/en/modules/overview.xml 2007-09-19 13:24:26 UTC (rev 8364) @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +<preface id="overview"> + <title>JBoss Portal - Overview</title> + <para> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="images/setup/default_ss.png" format="png" align="center" + valign="middle"/> + </imageobject> + </para> + <para>Many IT organizations look to achieve a competitive advantage for the enterprise by + improving business productivity and reducing costs. Today's top enterprises are realizing this + goal by deploying enterprise portals within their IT infrastructure. Enterprise portals + simplify access to information by providing a single source of interaction with corporate + information. Although today's packaged portal frameworks help enterprises launch portals more + quickly, only JBoss Portal can deliver the benefits of a zero-cost open source license + combined with a flexible and scalable underlying platform.</para> + <para>JBoss Portal provides an open source and standards-based environment for hosting and + serving a portal's Web interface, publishing and managing its content, and customizing its + experience. It is entirely standards-based and supports the JSR-168 portlet specification, + which allows you to easily plug-in standards-compliant portlets to meet your specific portal + needs. JBoss Portal is available through the business-friendly + <ulink + url="http://jboss.com/opensource/lgpl/faq">LGPL</ulink> + open source license and is + supported by + <ulink url="http://www.jboss.com/services/index">Red Hat Middleware, LLC Professional Support + and Consulting + </ulink> + . JBoss support services are available to assist you in designing, + developing, deploying, and ultimately managing your portal environment. JBoss Portal is + currently developed by Red Hat Middleware, LLC developers and community contributors. + </para> + <para>The JBoss Portal framework and architecture includes the portal container and supports a + wide range of features including standard portlets, single sign-on, clustering and + internationalization. Portal themes and layouts are configurable. Fine-grained security + administration down to portlet permissions rounds out the security model. JBoss Portal + includes a rich content management system and message board support.</para> + <para> + <emphasis role="bold">JBoss Portal Resources:</emphasis> + <orderedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://labs.jboss.com/jbossportal">JBoss Portal Home Page</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>Forums: + <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + >User</ulink> + | + <ulink + url="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + >Design</ulink> + | + <ulink url="http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&amp;op=viewforum&... + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.jboss.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossPortal">Wi... + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink url="http://www.portletswap.com">PortletSwap.com portlet exchange</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + <ulink + url="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL?report=com.atlassian... + >Our Roadmap</ulink> + </para> + </listitem> + </orderedlist> + </para> + <para>The JBoss Portal team encourages you to use this guide to install and configure JBoss + Portal. If you encounter any configuration issues or simply want to take part in our + community, we would love to hear from you in our forums. + </para> +</preface>