[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: WANTED: Input from administrators & developers

[thomas.heute@jboss.com]

"jewhit" wrote : unfortunately, we just purchased ON so i can't say that i have tinkered with it much, but these are the things i can identify as having the most value for our organization:

No worry, it's even better if you didn't look at it, you have a fresh opinion on the subject.

anonymous wrote : 1)  it would be nice to be able to centralize administration of user portlets rights, etc... directly from ON, as opposed to having administrators log into each portal "instance"

Ok. I also think that it makes sense.

anonymous wrote : 2) CMS control - it would be cool if you could deploy a single (or clustered) CMS "server" and deploy content links as required to all instances of portal via ON.  this might be a bit bloated, not sure of implications and whether portal could fully handle it.

You mean the existing "CMS Admin portlet" but directly from ON ?

anonymous wrote : 3) directly edit / deploy all critical XML's from ON

We will do that, we also need to reflect the changes without having to restart. For example adding an intereceptor means modifying a jboss-service.xml file but would only be picked up after a restart, we also need to add the interceptor dynamically.

anonymous wrote : 4) to further extend on Roy's point... if i understood him correctly... it would be absolutely bitchin if porlet instances or CMS content could be archived remotely and restored from ON.

Yes, it will be priority No1 for provisioning i think.

anonymous wrote : 5) this has nothing to do with portal directly... but when doing major portlet / portal code changes, the database purge / data directory remove / rebuild can be a real hassle... especially in heavy prototype / production enviornments.  would it be possible to utilize ON to at the minimum "reinsert" users and roles upon redeployment... or at the click of a button in the console ?  obviously, permission associations to portlets can't be restored, as portlets / portal deployment may change, but the ability to resync users and roles would be a big help.  it sure beats having to create sql scripts manually to reinsert.

This is more a development related thing, so not really something for administrators. This would have to be part of some "tools" any volunteer to work on the IDE that a contributor started ? I agree that we can improve on that.

anonymous wrote : these are the things i can think of offhand.  maybe some of these things are already possible.  I will throw more things at you once i get ON installed and running... or at the minimum after i go to the roadshow tomorrow.   i would guess we will do our own install late this week / early next week for our test servers.
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Thanks a lot for your valuable input !

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