Glassfish Web Space Server 10
Overview
Patrice Goutin
GTE
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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Web Space Server 10:
Complete User Interaction Platform
• Web / Portal Platform
> Content / Widgets / WOA
• User Collaboration
> Wiki, Blogs, Forums, etc.
• Social Networking
> Open Social support for social
graph
> User defined communities
• Process and Human
Workflow
Add social networking to content delivery.
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Design Goals
Modular, Lightweight, Opt-In, Approachable
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End-to-end Platform
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CMS OO.o
Security Collab
Testable
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Sustainable
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Rest PHP,
Feeds Ruby, etc.
Useable
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Interoperable
• OpenSSO 8
Glassfish V2/V3
JavaEE
• MySQL
Compelling Sun FOSS offering
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Carry forward adopted features
•
Never say Never
•
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Major Features
• Core Portal Framework
> Lightweight, easy to install, customizable
• Social Networking
> KM, Community Equity drives participation
• Collaboration/Community
> Blog/Wiki/Msg/Presence
• Mashups
> Portal Data Syndication
• Content Management
> Mirage API / JSR 170
> OpenOffice & other
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Major Features
• Identity-Based Content Delivery
> Driven through
Organizations+Communities
> SSO, RBAC support
• Packaging/Updates w/IPS
• Workflow/ESB/BI
• Complete Development
Environment
• Federated Search
• Performance & Security Best
Practices
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Platform Support
No distinction between development and deployment
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Note that WebSynergy is 100% platform independent
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• Windows • Mac OS 10.4+ x86 and PPC
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>XP Professional SP2 (32- and 64-bit)
>5.0 on x86 (32- and 64-bit)
>Vista Enterprise & Home Edition (32-
and 64-bit) • Ubuntu 7.10 x86, Ubuntu 8.04 x86 (32- and
>Server 2003/2008 (32- and 64-bit) 64-bit)
• Solaris • SUSE 10/11 (Desktop and Server)
>Solaris 10 x86 and SPARC (32- and • VirtualBox & VMWare Workstation/Server1
64-bit) (preferred) • GlassFish v2.1 & v3 (when available)
>OpenSolaris 2008.11 (x86) (preferred) • MySQL & Oracle
• JDK 5+
Preferred Deployment Option 1
http://wikis.sun.com/display/Appliance/WebSynergy+VM+Images
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Xcelerators
• Coordinated, Pre-packaged features for
variousareas
• More than just portlets
> Web Services, documentation, web apps, bundled
libraries
• Packaged using, and available via IPS and Update
Center only
> Zip-based distros exist, but are unwieldy
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Xcelerators available
• OpenOffice Xcelerator
> Check-in/check-out OpenOffice documents hosted on
CMS directly from yje OpenOffice menu
> Open/edit Openoffice documents inside a widget
• OpenSSO Xcelerator
> Authentication
> Identity based content delivery(IBCD)
– Uses Mapping Portlet
AM Membership(Role/group/frole) – Websynergy
–
Community mapping
AM Realm – Websynergy Organization Mapping
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Xcelerators : next to come
• Collaboration
> Microsoft Sharepoint Xcelerator
> Documentum Xcelerator
> Alfresco Xcelerator
• Secure Web
> Secure Web Access
> Secure Global Desktop
> Citrix
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WebSpace Server 10 - summary
• Open source
> Based on Liferay portal 5.2
> Large open source communities including Liferay, Openportal,
PortalPack, SAW...
• Easy to install
• Even easier to customize
> Modern technology
> Custom portlets, themes, layouts
> Enterprise integration APIs
• Xcelerators
• Familiar requirements
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Glassfish Web Space Server 10
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