What is this book about?
Open source technology enables you to build customized
enterprise portal frameworks with more flexibility and fewer
limitations. This book explains the fundamentals of a powerful set
of open source tools and shows you how to use them.
An outstanding team of authors provides a complete tutorial and
reference guide to Java Portlet API, Lucene, James, and Slide,
taking you step-by-step through constructing and deploying portal
applications. You trace the anatomy of a search engine and
understand the Lucene query syntax, set up Apache James
configuration for a variety of servers, explore object to
relational mapping concepts with Jakarta OJB, and acquire many
other skills necessary to create J2EE portals uniquely suited to
the needs of your organization.
Loaded with code-intensive examples of portal applications, this
book offers you the know-how to free your development process from
the restrictions of pre-packaged solutions.
What does this book cover?
Here's what you will learn in this book:
* How to evaluate business requirements and plan the portal
* How to develop an effective browser environment
* How to provide a search engine, messaging, database inquiry,
and content management services in an integrated portal
application
* How to develop Web services for the portal
* How to monitor, test, and administer the portal
* How to create portlet applications compliant with the Java
Portlet API
* How to reduce the possibility of errors while managing the
portal to accommodate change
* How to plan for the next generation application portal
Who is this book for?
This book is for professional Java developers who have some
experience in portal development and want to take advantage of the
options offered by open source tools.