portal

What are the best resources for learning the Java Portlet Specification (JSR-168)?

I've been looking online for the last day or so but haven't managed to see anything that clearly explains the spec. The application I'm trying to learn is based on BEA Weblogic Portal Server. I'm primarily looking for links but a good book would also be helpful. ...

Implement fuzzy search in a sharepoint portal

I am developing a sharepoint portal for a suggestions and rewards system and need to alert duplicate suggestions. Suggestions will be in free text format, hence need fuzzy search. I understand that “Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm” does fuzzy search, but how do I implement in Sharepoint portal? Can Microsoft Search Server help? If yes, how...

Balancing level of integration with ease of adding new software in an intranet: portals, cms, etc?

Quick background: i'm the portal admin for our medium sized company. Currently, our intranet policy is to try to integrate everything into our intranet portal, (which we use mostly as a CMS, with a handful of applications integrated as well). This means that all of our software appears to the end user to come from one site, which is go...

First Loadtest fails after restart of weblogic server

We have encountered a peculiar problem. If we deploy our application and then restart the weblogic portal server; and we do a load test, the load test fails with very high response time and low throughput. If we the load test a second time, it runs just fine. If we just deploy our application, but don't restart the weblogic portal se...

File upload in weblogic portal

Hey I'm trying to get the tomahawk <t:inputFileUpload tag to work for jsf deployed on a weblogic portal. I've basically followed the example found here. but I'm having problems with the enctype on the form tag. <h:form id="welcomeForm" enctype="multipart/form-data"> When is include the enctype attribute in the form tag this means that...

Where do I start when I want to setup an new information portal?

Its easy to find a standard CMS system - but what do you recommend to setup a web page that is 70% www.tripadvisor.com and 30% www.hostels.com ? (The page I'm working on is not going to be a competitor to any of those pages) But it is to give an Idea about what I need. It is important for me that it is going to be web 2.0 based - so the ...

What is the easiest way to convert existing PHP web application to mobile application?

Suppose I have developed one web portal in PHP/MySQL. I want to make it work in mobile also. What is the easiest way to do this? Can we use PHP with any mobile based mark up languages like WML or XHTML i.e. as we can use PHP with HTML in web applications used to view in normal web browsers? ...

Recommendation needed for dynamic CMS / portal site system.

Hi, does someone know a script or product to create such a portal site like this: http://www.qkport.com/ This is actually a demo site of biznetic.com, but it seems like they don´t sell it anymore. Thanks. ...

Hippo CMS & Jetspeed

I'm looking at a solution to manage my content between a website & intranet and was playing with Hippo CMS in combination with Jetspeed. It looks good, bus does anybody have any experience with this combination? And where do you shop for more portlets? ...

Returning binary content from a JPF action with Weblogic Portal 10.2

Hi, One of the actions of my JPF controller builds up a PDF file and I would like to return this file to the user so that he can download it. Is it possible to do that or am I forced to write the file somewhere and have my action forward a link to this file? Note that I would like to avoid that as much as possible for security reasons a...

public render parameter not working with CSA Theme in Websphere 6.1

I am trying to use Public Render Parameter to inter portlet communication. I have PorteltA and PortletB on Submit of PortletA ( processAction) sets render parameter "city" which is defined in portlet.xml. PortletB gets "city" parameter in doView() and display on view jsp. Its working fine with Defautl Theme "Portal". When I changed t...

ResourceResponse.setCharacterEncoding() not working

I need to return some special Latin letter (e.g. á) in the response of a portlet serveResource() method. I have tried the following ways: response.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1") ; PrintWriter out = resWrapper.getWriter(); out.println("á"); out.close(); OR response.setContentType("text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1"); PrintWriter out...

Are there any open source projects for building websites like elance?

I'm interested in finding a codebase for creating a portal where contractors can bid on projects. This would be similar to the website elance.com or rentacoder.com or getafreelancer.com. Do you know of any open source projects out there or even paid software as a starting point? Thank you very much! ...

Liferay Portal : How different from Websphere Portal

Hi Guys, I have worked with Websphere Portal 6.0,6.1 and developed portal applications usign JSR 168,JSR 286 Portlets. Now I am moving to project where I will be working with Liferay portal server and JSR 168,JSR 286. I know that as per programming interface (JSRs) It will be the same. But want to know what are the major difference at...

Formatting XML returned from form POST

I have a regular HTML page with a form on it. The form POSTs to a remote server that returns its data in XML. I want to then transform this data into an easy-to-read format. How do I go about doing this? I am willing to try client-side or server-side solutions. We do our development work using Oracle Portal (yuck), and I am not enti...

Changing a file on the server using a local windows app

Hey all, I am writing an automation to update the contents on an excel sheet(in c#) present on our server. Our server has various portals and has different credentials. How could I fetch the file on my portal to my local computer to make some changes to it. ...

JBoss Portals and e-commerce

I have a requirement to build branded e-commerce sites that have their own urls but are on the same installation. I've been looking at DNN, and Jboss portals as well as the new GateIn collaboration between Jboss portals and Exo. I really like what I see in comparison to DNN, which looks a bit rough in comparison but I haven't seen anyt...

Where Java applets game portals?

I have started making some small Java games that run in a browser and have found a couple of game portals where I can host then (GameJolt.com, JavaGameTomb.com and Games4j.com). Most of the other portals I find either only allow Flash or offer the games for download. Apart from those above, what other portals exist that allow hosting ap...

What are good resources/books/podcasts on Enterprise Portal Development ?

What are some of the very good online resources/books/pod casts/tutorials/blogs/articles etc for learning and understanding different areas of Enterprise Portal Development ? ...

How to keep an Engineering Log

I've tried several methods of keeping a log of my day-to-day activity when writing code. None of them really worked all that well. Here's what I'd like to have: automatic timestamps tagging (like we do on stackoverflow). Mainly for project names and technologies used Easy to build a weekly report from the results for status meetings...