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This book is a thorough introduction into JSR 168 that will help get portal developers up to speed into this relatively new specification.</a> </blockquote> — Thomas Paul, JavaRanch Sheriff</div>

How do developers bring existing applications into a portal? How do developers integrate content management systems and search engines with a portal? And how do developers get started with the Portlet API? Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter show you how to solve these real problems in Building Portals with the Java Portlet API.

This book describes the new Java portlet API, including security, portlet life cycles, and portlet interaction with servlets and JSP. The examples will work on any portal that complies with the JSR-168 portlet API. Several example portlets are developed to give you hands-on portlet experience. You'll even learn how to port existing servlet and JSP applications into a new portal environment.

The authors also discuss Single Sign-On (SSO) using Kerberos and the GSS-API, syndicating content with RSS, and integrating a charting solution with JFreeChart. Other topics covered are the open-source Apache Jakarta Lucene search engine, personalization, portlet configuration, portlet preferences, and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP). XDoclet is also used throughout portions of this book.

About the Author

Jeff Linwood has been involved in software programming since he had a 286 in high school. He got caught up with the Internet when he got access to a UNIX shell account, and it has been downhill ever since. Jeff has published articles on several Jakarta Apache open source projects in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, CNET’s Builder.com, and JavaWorld. Jeff has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently works for the Gossamer Group in Austin, Texas, on content management and web application syndication systems. He gets to play with all the latest open source projects there.Dave Minter has adored computers since he was small enough to play in the boxes they came in. He built his first PC from discarded, faulty, and obsolete components, and considers that to be the foundation of his career as an integration consultant. Dave is based in London, where he helps large and small companies build systems that "just work.

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Paperback: 393 pages
Publisher: Apress (August 23, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590592840
ISBN-13: 978-1590592847
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
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portlet concepts, initial ticket, renewable ticket, proxy ticket, custom portlet modes, portlet application, advanced portlet, portlet session, portlet retrieves, portlet tag library, custom window states, request handling phase, application syndication, portlet life cycle, portlet deployment descriptor, controller portlet, portlet preferences, portlet request, portlet class, first portlet, proxy portlet, file upload library, standard window states, portlet container, portlet configuration

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Portlet Basics, Integrating the Lucene Search Engine, Apache Pluto, Apache Slide, Sat Apr, Technical Notes, Single Sign-on, The Portlet Life Cycle, Preferences Validation Portlet, Java Content Repository, Taxonomy Portlet, Apache Ant, Apache Tomcat, String Creates, Content Style, Enterprise Edition, Link Crawler, Jakarta Apache, Sun Microsystems, Server Principal, Apache Software License, Java Standard Tag Library, Example Title Nun, Enterprise Java Development, Misuse of Collections

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid intro to portals, December 13, 2004

By	Thomas Paul (Plainview, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Portals are becoming more popular as companies are looking for a single web-based entry point into their various applications. Java provides a standard portal model with JSR 168. This book is a thorough introduction into JSR 168 that will help get portal developers up to speed into this relatively new specification.

The book starts with an excellent introduction into developing portlets. The first seven chapters cover all the details of developing portlets. Response and request objects are covered in detail. The portlet life cycle is clearly explained. Deployment descriptors are discussed. Integrating with Servlets and JSPs is described. The remainder of the book covers more advanced topics. Anyone working with a portal knows the problems with providing single sign-on to multiple applications. The authors discuss this issue giving several examples. The authors cover syndication, searching, personalization, web services, content management, and more.

My only complaint with the book is that it uses the Apache Pluto portal, which is not in final release yet. Pluto is an open source portal but it is complicated to distribute content to it (you are forced to use Maven). When the book explains how to distribute portlets to Pluto it gets a little confusing because the authors need to explain multiple configuration files, some of which are exclusive to Pluto. Other than this one problem, the book gives a solid introduction to developing a portal providing detailed information of both the basics and many advanced concepts. Clearly the authors understand portal development and know how to pass that information on to their readers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Natural progression from JSP/Servlets, September 15, 2004

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Many companies have recognised the need for portals to provide an easy way for users to get at corporate information, in a way controlled by the company. Inevitably, there has been a writing of APIs to regularise what a portal is. Here, our authors give this, in the context of J2EE and the latest Java.

The book explains how to use the Java Portal API. It shows a portal as a container of portlets. Each portlet is a wrapper around some single coherent function. At least, that is the ideal!

You will be greatly eased in understanding what is offered if you have already written Java Servlets and JSPs. The Portal API and its recommended usage were deliberately written to mimic those, as much as possible. There is really nothing difficult here.

Plus, put simply, if you can understand Servlets and JSPs, it strongly behooves you to upgrade your skill set and learn about portals. You have to keep moving forward. If only because there are programmers in India (and elsewhere) actively commoditising your current skill set. Just a few steps behind you. So perhaps try this book and keep going.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good foundation for learning about portlets, June 16, 2005

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My primary motivation for reading this book, was to gain an understanding of JSR 168 and the Portlet API before digging in and learning WebSphere Portal administration and development (I like to understand the standards and how to code things by hand before letting a tool do the heavy lifting for me).

The book provides a good foundation for the basics of building portlets. This book delivered. I would recommend this book, if you are new to portlets, but not new to building web applications. Having a solid understanding of servlets and JSP's will benefit you greatly.

This book will not give you the expertise to build a production ready portal, but it will give you enough information that will allow you to begin learning the advanced techniques or to distinguish vendor specific enhancements to the official spec.

Chapters 1 through 7 and 10 were solid, informative, very easy to read, and fairly well edited (there are typos throughout the book, but I've come to expect this from Apress). At chapter 8 the book started to become less useful. Chapter 8 had a lot of words, but not a lot of substance (I already know how Kerberos works, I wanted to know how to integrate this into a portal environment). Chapters 9 and 13 required significant tweaking to get everything to work.

Overall, the authors tone and style was useful, very few attempts at humor (I can't stand tutorials and reference manuals that attempt to be cute). Diagrams and illustrations were used effectively and added value.

The book could have expanded on the material in later chapters, especially Chapters 9 (RSS and Syndication), 10 (Lucene Search Engine), and 15 (Content Management Systems). Also, do not use this book as a reference for good coding style (e.g., swallowing exceptions, inefficient string usage, scoping of variables, etc.).

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3.0 out of 5 stars not bad
I am currently working on JSR168 (java portlets) it has helped in some ways. Still doesn't have a good enough description for setting up your environment. Read more

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Don't buy this book!! The 'authors' don't even know the subject well themselives. It is very obivious from the start that they read some documents on the web and quickly put this... Read more

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Well, I got this book and was trying to get through the first chapter. As someone already mentioned, the setup is left for you, TOTALLY! Read more

Published on October 6, 2005 by Mr Cool

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed - great intro to Portlets
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1.0 out of 5 stars A mock up of a book on portlets...
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