Portal Integration Patterns

There are several portal integration patterns that I would like to talk about over several blog posts. This is to expose applications/functionalities that people can use on portal. Some of them are:

• Iframe portlets
• Web service client/SOA/BPEL portlets
• MVC or application portlets (JSR 168/286, Struts, JSF, Springs, etc)
  
• Launch applications via portal
• WSRP (Web Services Remote Portlet)
• Fun/productive/vendor portlets
• Web Clipper portlets
  

Blogged with Flock

Gartner Top 10 for 2008

I am very interested in social networking and enabling apps on mobile devices in an enterprise setting from this top 2008 list from gartner http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100907-10-strategic-technologies-gartner.html?page=3

Blogged with Flock

integrated with flock ;

Trying out the new social browser flock and so far looks great

Blogged with Flock

Enterprise tips 1

Two interesting points -

1. Consumers at home are enterprise users from 9 to 5.

2. IT should become from enabler of business apps to enabler of
business innovation.

$ Rob Levy - CTO BEA

Portlet & J2EE

JSR286 is going to be part of J2EE 5.

Testing for DST change in 2007

I believe testing at below different points in time should suffice.

1. When the daylight patches are applied by the sys admins, the application teams should go in and test from basic to full functionality. But if time pressed below testing should do:
a. Application home page comes up fine
b. Test one or two critical time related functionality (date formatting, time related calculations, etc).
2. New rule Spring DST time, March 11th: Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing.
3. Old rule Spring DST time, April 1st. Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing. (if the 2nd one above works than this is more of a sanity check).
4. New rule Fall DST time, November 4th: Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing.
5. Old rule Fall DST time, October 28th. Early morning (if possible 2:01am) testing. (if the 4th one above works than this is more of a sanity check).

SOAs don't enable mashups?

If you have a SOA infrastructure than you have soap xml messages over http or may be mq messages. So you can use these to orchestrate/choreograph sercices but this is composing at the system/backend integration level. Mashup is more of an integration at the UI level. It expects the services to be available as javascripts. Think JSON/REST. So what do you have to do with those SOA services? For the ones that make sense to be available to do mashups currently you would have to expose them as javascript and having nothing to do with SOA related services. So what do you think?

Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading

Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading

I went ahead and subscribed to #1

IBM - IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Tuning Guide

IBM - IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Tuning Guide

New features in SharePoint 2007

I have been using SharePoint for sometime and it's really cool. The newer version promises to be better. I am hoping to be able to try it out as soon as we upgrade.

 

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/294609.htm