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Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: JavaPortlet API, Lucene, James, Slide
 
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Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: JavaPortlet API, Lucene, James, Slide [Paperback]

W. Clay Richardson , Donald Avondolio , Joe Vitale , Peter Len , Kevin T. Smith
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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.

From the Back Cover

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 will 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 volume offers you the know-how to free your development process from the restrictions of pre-packaged solutions.

What you will learn from 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 this book is 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.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Loaded with Knowledge!!!, July 8 2004
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Kraig Stanford (Springfield, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: JavaPortlet API, Lucene, James, Slide (Paperback)
This book covers JSR168 in great detail and also shows the reader how to use some of the most popular open source tools on the market. These tools are geared towards what a programmer might need for portal development.

Terrific book! I highly recommend it!

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1.0 out of 5 stars An utter waste of time and money, July 8 2004
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S. Christopherson (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: JavaPortlet API, Lucene, James, Slide (Paperback)
Having read the book description I was excited by what this book might have to offer. As it turned out I was utterly disappointed with my purchase.

I think the word "Professional" listed in the title of the book is totally misleading. There is nothing professional about this piece of trash. The authors appear to have done little more than scrape together as much open-source documentation as they could muster, with very little original material to hold it all together. Explanations are either poorly written or very thin on content, there is no flow between chapters, and basically no focus to the book. Just a mish-mash of technology descriptions wrapped up in a Wrox cover.

Overall I would rate this as one of the worst IT books I have every bought, and I've collected plenty over the last few years. If you're after a decent portal development book you'll be disappointed/annoyed with this one.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete look at Portal development, Jun 22 2004
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Thomas Paul (Plainview, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: JavaPortlet API, Lucene, James, Slide (Paperback)
There seems to be a new breed of technical cookbook book that involves throwing a lot of different technologies into a stew and hoping that what comes out is flavorful. Unfortunately, the result is more often than not, a less than tasty meal. This book is a prime example. Although it claims to be a guide to portal development using Java, it is mainly a bare bones discussion of lots of open source technologies without tying them together.

The book starts with an introduction to the Java Portlet API. This should be the heart of the book but in 35 pages we get a glance at some aspects of portals and some tables that give us a little on what but virtually nothing on how or why. Thinking that this was simply a quick introduction I wasn't too let down but then the book moves on to short chapters on Lucene, Apache James, Apache OJB, and Jakarta Slide. The book talks about security, planning, JavaScript, deployment, web services, etc. The one thing that is lacking is a feel for how this should all fit together within the Portlet API.

Taking each chapter by itself, some of them are good while others cover little more than the surface of each topic. Overall, the book fails to be a guide to developing a portal using Java. It should be considered as a series of articles dealing with different aspects of portal development but without any real connection.

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