Overview of WebSynergy
Web 2.0, Collaboration
and the future of Web
Site Development.
James Falkner
Prashant Dighe
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Agenda
• Objectives
• Industry Trends/Key Requirements
• Architecture/Feature Themes
• Content Management
• Developer Basics
• Summary/Key Takeaways
• Demo
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Objectives
• Understand industry trends around Portals, Web
2.0, 3 year landscape
• Understand technical makeup and benefits of
WebSynergy
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Release Definitions
• Community Build
> Unpredictable stability/quality
> 2-3 times a month
> Community Support
• Stable Build (OpenSSO model)
> Relatively good quality/stability
> 1-2 times a quarter
> Available to early access customers
> Can file bugs via Support
– Fixed in next stable build (or Commercial Build)
• Commercial Build
> Akin to traditional RR (Revenue Release)
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Portal Server Product Roadmap
CY2008 CY2009
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Sun
Portal
PS 7.2 PS 7.2
beta FCS
Jan 6th
Project
WebSynergy WS WS WS WS V1 WS WS
SB1 SB2 SB3 Commercial V1u1 V1.2
Build
Secure
OpenOffice Enterprise Remote
Mashup Access
Documentum Sharepoint
Xcelerators Integration
Complete
High certainty
Med certainty
NOTICE: Sun reserves the right to change the date and scope of all future releases
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Platform Support
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No distinction between development and deployment
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Note that this project is 100% platform independent
• Windows • Mac OS x86 and PPC
>XP Professional SP2 (32- and 64-bit) • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>Vista Enterprise & Home Edition (32- >5.0 on x86 (32- and 64-bit)
and 64-bit) • Ubuntu 7.10 x86, Ubuntu 8.04 x86 (32- and
>Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit) 64-bit)
>Server 2008 (Tentative; SRD) • VirtualBox & VMWare Workstation/Server
• Solaris >Investigating virtual appliance distros
>Solaris 10 x86 and SPARC (32- and • GlassFish v2ur2 & v3 (when available)
64-bit) (preferred) • MySQL & Oracle
>OpenSolaris 2008.xx (x86) (preferred) • Note that this project is 100% platform
independent
Preferred Deployment Option
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Introduction / Industry Trends
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Industry Trends: Portals
• Provide natural canvas on which to aggregate widgets,
mashups, with enterprise services
• Portals are evolving
> Lightweight
> Modular, Opt-in, not out
> Approachable
> Client-side support
> Drop baggage
• Widgets are becoming much more interactive
> Portals must offer compelling services
– Social Software
– Enterprise Integration
– Developer Tooling (Increasingly more accessible)
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Industry Trends: Social Networking
• Integrating&Combining with CMS, CRM, Semantic Search
• Development tools (e.g. widget sharing in dev
environments)
• Rating, Community Equity on content
• Expert exchanges based on social attibutes
• Tempered with enterprise considerations
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Industry Trends
• The portal is the mashup
> Trend: Presentation, Integration, Collaboration,
Socialization, Empowerment
> Provide easy integration of multi-language widgets
> Provide easy access to portal services via REST APIs
> Provide tools for creating widgets
– Support casual developers
> Do not be final
– Syndicate widgets to encourage adoption elsewhere
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Industry Trends:
Enterprise 2.0
• Web is vast, powerful, but dangerous, uncontrolled,
and unpredictable
> There is still a lot of untapped potential
• Enterprises want to harness the power, but want to
do so in controlled fashion
> Security, Reliability, Compatibility, SLAs, Portability, ...
• Lots of new technologies
> Enterprises have a lot more choice in talent pool
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Summary: Key Requirements
• Modular, Lightweight
• Opt-In
• Approachable
• Easy to evolve
• Enterprise 2.0 (yes, I just said that)
• End-to-End
• Technology Agnostic
• Lead by Adoption
• Modern Features
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Community Partnership with Liferay
JSFPortletBridge Sun Copyrighted Components / CDDL Semantic
OpenPortal / Web
Portlet PortalPack Mirage OpenSRA
Glassfish Container SAW
Community DesignView SocialSite
WSRP
WebSynergy v1.0
Bugs
Liferay v5 v5.1 v5.2 v5.3
Bugs
WebSynergy v1.1
Sun OpenSSO FAM 8 OpenESB
Assisted Glassfish V2 Glassfish V3
Integration MySQL
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sustaining branch
NOTE: This is a conceptual view of the release model – actual timing and scope of releases may vary managed by Sun
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Release Architecture
• Cosume, not fork
> By default, push into core
– Open Source version must be compelling
– For non-core, provide interfaces
– Modify core to import necessary libraries (PC,
WSRP, ...)
> Import latest stable release
– Soak to provide QA, bi-directional bugfixes
> Release, begin sustaining tail
> Next version re-syncs rather than maintain “fork”
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WebSynergy Architecture
and
Feature Overview
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WebSynergy Overview
Tooling Import/Export Visual Builder Widget Factory Web 2.0 Services
Syndication REST RSS/Atom JSON
Access
Mural / OpenKapow
Desktop
JCAPS et al
Enterprise Social
Blog Logging Msg Boards
Xcelerators
OpenOffice
Sharepoint
Semantic
Social Admin Search
Collab
Wiki Community CMS
SRA
Workflow/BI
Portlet Container
Mashup
Mirage API
Mobile
SAW WSRP
FAM/OpenSSO SSO Adapter JCR (JackRabbit)
GlassFish Scripting Server Admin Clustering/HA JDBC
Java Platform, Standard Edition
Packaging/Update Update Center IPS Repository
OpenSolaris Linux Windows
Hypervisor/Virtual Machine
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Core Portal
• Lightweight, modular components
• Theming, customization, aggregation, presentation,
role/community/organization definition
• Easy to get up and running
• Active community, friendly license
• Wide selection of themes/skins
• 60+ OOTB Widgets
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Enterprise Mashup Support
• Mashup Engine support (e.g. Mural, Kapow)
• Integration with NetBeans 6 web services
> But taken to an enterprise level
• Client-side eventing between widgets
• On-the-glass custom mashups
• Tooling support
> REST Widget Feeds
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Widget Consumer / Producer
Widget/Mashup Producers Widget Consumers
WebPage
WebApps
Other Portals 20
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WebSynergy – Widget Syndication
Point and
click to get
REST Feed
Syndicate Widgets
to any web property
that supports REST,
WSRP, etc.
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Widget Consumer / Producer
Widget/Mashup Producers Widget Consumers
WebPage
WebApps
OpenSocial API
Facebook API
REST, WSRP, etc.
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Enabling Portal Services Sharing
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Java CAPS
• Data Mashups with MDM and Kapow
• Composition Tooling w/JSF Portlet Builder & SAW
• Human Workflow
> SAW Integration with Liferay
> Workflow in calendar, CMS,
Communities/Roles/Permissions
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Tooling
• Tooling makes the platform
• Multi-language Widget support
• NetBeans Web Services
• Front-end for all plugin types (themes, widgets,
layouts)
• Full JSR 286 support
• Import existing portlets for mashup
• Page flow
• Enterprise widgets
> CMS Explorer, Widget Palette
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Semantic Tagging/Community Equity
• Support for semantic tagging of many types of
content, integrated with Mirage CMS, and other
content creation (blog, wiki, message board, etc)
• Define new ontologies
> Tools already available, viz. Protege or OBO Edit
• Query via SPARQL
• Portal technology “in the small”
• Community Equity
> ex: Janitor, Gifts, Federated Equity
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Multi-Language Widget Development Platform
• Explosion of popularity of scripting languages
> Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Groovy, jMaki, ...
> GlassFish V3 includes execution support
• Server-side and Client-side IWC
> Uses Java Standards, but does not require Java
• Developer Tooling support
> Developing widgets without knowing Java or Portal
> IDE Deployment Support
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Enhanced Sharepoint Support
• Bring forward all existing functionality
> Improve integration experience, e.g. Calendar
• Add support for blogs & wikis
• SSO (e.g. For Windows login)
• Use AD for credentials when available
> Sun Portal no longer tied to Sun Access Manager
• Complement SharePoint sites
> Include support for MOSS 2007
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Content Management w/Mirage & OpenOffice
• Add Mirage API Abstraction to Liferay
> Plug in Mirage-based CMS & Custom CMS Apps
• On-the-fly document conversion of CMS documents
• On-the-fly document conversion of non-CMS
• Inline editing
• Provide OpenOffice plugin which allows
opening/locking/saving to/from WebSynergy
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Workflow/BI Introspection
• ESB Support (Servicemix, OpenESB)
• More integrations (jBPM, Oracle, WS-HumanTask)
• Dynamic portal evolution with changing workflow
• Knowledge Management
• BI Integration
> Basic (Charts, etc)
> Introspection via Xforms
> Dashboard Designer
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
FAM 8 Support
• OpenSSO/FAM 8 support
• IBCD
• Bulk import from FAM 8
• Sync tools between FAM and WebSynergy
• Custom membership mapping
• Complete insulation from AM
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Installation
Out of Box Characteristic
• Default values for all configuration options that work for
every situation (Laptop Demo, Desktop Eval, Server
Deployment)
• No complex/difficult to set up dependencies
> Embedded Database
> Internal user repository
> Pre-populated data (Sun Branding, example users,
sample site layout)
> Tuning scripts available
• Non-Root/Multi-Install capable
• Custom configuration allows you to achieve NSPF, HA, 31
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Administration
Overview
• Most administration tasks can be handled through
administration widgets
> Server management, default settings, configuration
• Organization/Enterprise management handled through
Enterprise Admin widget
• Advanced administration possibilities through “CLI”
• Each site instance is associated with a company
• Each company can have locations, organizations, etc.
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Administration
App Admin
• WebSynergy is a standard Java EE Web
Application
• Startup
• Hot Deploy vs. Auto Deploy
• Shutdown
• WebSynergy design goal: Remain Web App
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Plugin Management
• Plugins are:
> Layout Templates
– Allow widgets to be arranged inside the constraints of
custom layouts.
> Widgets
– Add functionality to the site (will address this in
separate subject)
> Themes
– Modify the look and feel of the site
• All plugins are packaged as .war files and are hot-
deployable
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Plugin Management
• Themes allow completely different L&F
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Content Management
Main Requirements
• Ability to Define Content Types
> Structured and Unstructured Content types or a mix of both
• Structured – Advertisement, News Article, Announcement
> Unstructured – Documents, Images etc.
• Ability to Create Content
> Create content, create templates for content, apply templates, version
content, categorize content etc.
• Ability to Manage Content
> Version content, view history, lock content, start workflow on content.
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Content Management
Current Features
• End Users
> Generic CMS API and
> Default implementation based on the Apache Jackrabbit implementation
of the JSR-170
• Developers
> CMS Tag Libraries - which developers can use to create web widgets that
can leverage the features offered by Mirage.
> Netbeans Plugin available ( http://portalpack.netbeans.org )
• CMS widgets
> Demonstrating handling structured and unstructured content
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Content Management
Use in WebSynergy
• Mirage API standardized in core
> Retains compatibility with existing applications
• WebSynergy uses Apache Jackrabbit
> Other implementations easily substituted
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Content Management
Use in WebSynergy CMS
Application
CMS CMS CMS
Application Application Tag Libraries
Mirage API (Standardized in Core)
Developer Tools
WebSynergy CMS Services
Liferay Journal
WebSynergy Repository (Based on JCR)
DB FileSystem
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Content Management
OpenOffice Integration
• OpenOffice Integration
> Leverage Liferay's ability to convert documents on
the fly using OO's service
> Provide OO plugin which allows opening/saving
documents to/from WebSynergy
> Integrate OO service with other parts of WebSynergy
as needed (e.g. for conversion of documents on
the web, etc).
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Developer Tools
Tooling Support
• Basic Widget development
• Easy deployment testing
> Reducing time-to-develop/deploy is key
• Inter-widget communication
• Enhanced code completion for widget-specific
objects
• Advanced multi-language widget development
• Standards Support
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Developer Tools
WebSynergy
• Recall End-to-End key design goal
• Every extensible feature exposed via tooling
• Interesting Scenarios:
> Multi-language inter-widget communication
> Remote Palettes
> On the Glass Development
> Workflow/BI
> Client-side eventing
> JSON Publishing
> Theme/Layout Development
> CMS Explorer
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WebSynergy: Feature Themes
Cross-Platform IPS Packaging/Update Center
• Packaged as one or more IPS Packages
• Update Center GUI
• Update Notifications
• Updates to Core + Addons
• Local Repositories
• Mirroring
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Key Takeaways
• Revolution in ease of use
• Embraces WOA, Enterprise 2.0
• Consumer and provider of lightweight services
• Broad developer support
• Leverages open source, active communities
• Release model gets features to market quickly
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Demo
Technology Tools
• Multi language inter widget communication • WYSIWIG Editor
• Caters to a superset of developers for Widgets
Development
• Ready for large scale deployments
• Multi language
development
support
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WebSynergy Overview
Web 2.0, Collaboration
and the future of Web
Site Development.
James Falkner
Prashant Dighe
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