MMS Dresden Germany – Dresden - Slide N°1Adolf Liepelt [email protected]
Final Project Review
Newcastle upon Tyne, April 19, 2004
AESOP Platform
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Table of content
Technical development • Functionality and usability improvements since the last
review
• Reviewer‘s recommendations
Final technical overview• AESOP Web Portal
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Technical development
Functionality• Merge of secure spaces
• Document Management: "file size" and "owner" added
• Reactivated SSL for login with username/password
• Changed role permission in Document Management
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Technical development (2)
Usability• User information browser• New Jetspeed version (1.4)
– Portlets for editing XML config files– Internationalisation: detect browser language– Switch language also manually
• Completed Internationalisation• Changed HTML input elements to select rights, display real
names instead of login names• Welcome portlet which shows user role and used certificate
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Technical development (3)
Bug fixes• Removed OS dependancy in Document Management
• Changed HTTP session attributes in Forum and Calendar
• Delete related objects when delete a secure space
• ...
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Technical development (4)
Documentation• User Guide
• Installation Manual
• Operating Manual
• Developer Manual
• JavaDoc in Java sources
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Reviewer‘s recommendations.
• It should be visible when a secure connection (space) is established and/or running.
• A more flexible combination of server and browser language.
• It is not clear how client creation is handled
• Would the consortium give Jetspeed portlets to the Open Source community?
• USP‘s of AESOP
• Legacy integration
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Final technical overview
AESOP Web Portal• Highly configurable framework to develop corporate portals • Portal components (“portlets”)
MMS demo portal -> Pilot portal instances
ÆSOP portal framework
Various ÆSOP portal instances
Configuration and adaptation process
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Final technical overview
AESOP Web Portal - Architecture
Browser (HTML)
Web-Container (Tomcat)
DB (HSQLDB/Oracle)
Jetspeed
AESOP Controller/View
EJB-Container (JBoss)
AESOP Model
HTTP local
JRMP IIOP
JDBC JDBC
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Final technical overview (2)
AESOP Web Portal - Strengths• Corporate portal (rather than information portal)
– Built in certificate support, Secure spaces
• All Java J2EE features available (e.g. for legacy integration)– Transactions, Java Connectors etc., Message queues
• Developed with Open Source only
• Flexible and configurable by end users
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Final technical overview (3)
AESOP Web Portal - Weaknesses• No graphical development tools
• No implicit personalisation
• Jetspeed Portlets rarely available
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Contact
Adolf LiepeltMultimedia Solutions GmbH DresdenRiesaer Straße 5 01129 Dresden
Tel. +49-3 51-85 05-6 14 E-Mail [email protected] Internet www.mms-dresden.de
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