AquaLogic Interaction Administrator Guide

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Additional AquaLogic User Interaction Components

The following table describes components that provide additional functionality for the portal. For more information on these components or to download the components, visit the AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI) and AquaLogic Business Process Management (ALBPM) Support Center (one.bea.com/support).

Component Description
Integration Services Integration Services enable integration with third-party applications/repositories.
  • Identity Services

    Identity Services let you import users, groups, and user profile information from third-party user repositories into the portal. Identity Services also enable the portal to authenticate users through the third-party user repositories.

    Identity Services are available for Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Protocol).

  • Content Services

    Content Services scan third-party systems/applications for new content, categorizing links to this content in the organized, searchable structure of the portal’s Knowledge Directory. Users can then access this content through the portal user interface.

    Content Services are available for Windows File Systems, Documentum, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange.

  • Portlet Suites

    Portlet Suites are collections of portlets that provide users access to commonly used functions in third-party applications within the portal user interface.

    Portlet Suites are available for IMAP, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange.

  • Portlet Frameworks

    Portlet Frameworks let users create custom portlets that access information from third-party applications. The portlets can then be added to My Pages or community pages to provide users access to the third-party information.

    A Portlet Framework is available for Microsoft Excel.

Activity Services Activity Services extend portal functionality to enable analysis, collaboration, publishing, and simple portlet creation.
  • Analytics

    Analytics delivers comprehensive reporting on activity and content usage within portals and composite applications, allowing you to know and meet user information needs.

  • Collaboration

    Collaboration helps people to work together via the web, supporting tasks, projects, communities, calendars, discussions, and document sharing with version control.

  • Publisher

    Publisher allows publication & management of web content for portals and web applications, with forms-based publishing, branding, templates, workflow, approvals, and content expiration.

  • Sharepoint Console

    Sharepoint Console imports, indexes, and returns Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services resources via AquaLogic Interaction Search.

  • Studio

    Studio lets portal managers create portlets, such as telephone lists, work order processes, calendars and surveys, without any coding.

Enterprise Social Computing Products Enterprise Social Computing Products provide tools that enable users to freely contribute and actively work together.
  • AquaLogic Ensemble

    Ensemble is an enterprise system that lets developers create reusable widgets for mashup applications and allows IT to easily manage a diverse set of web resources.

  • AquaLogic Pages

    Pages is a simple and powerful system that lets end-user participants create web pages and applications to dramatically improve their productivity for everyday business activities.

  • AquaLogic Pathways

    Pathways provides social search and expertise discovery by combining social bookmarking and tagging with usage-based enterprise search to help users organize, discover and share information and expertise through social networks.

Developer Tools The following developer tools help you rapidly build applications through AquaLogic Interaction:
  • AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit (IDK)

    The IDK enables Java and .NET developers to rapidly build, deliver, and enhance user-centric composite applications through AquaLogic Interaction. It provides interfaces for Integration Web Services—authentication, profile, crawler, and search—that integrate enterprise systems into AquaLogic Interaction. It provides SOAP-based remote APIs to expose portal, search, and Collaboration features. In addition, the IDK has a portlet API to assist in pagelet, proxied application, and portlet development.

  • .NET Portlet Toolkit

    The .NET Portlet Toolkit is used to speed the development of ASP.NET portlets for use natively with AquaLogic Interaction. This product includes the .NET Portlet API and the .NET Web Control Consumer. The .NET Web Control Consumer enables you to create portlets using Microsoft .NET Web Controls.

  • JSR-168 Container

    The JSR-168 Container lets you deploy portlets in AquaLogic Interaction that conform to the JSR-168 portlet standard. The JSR-168 Container is included in the AquaLogic Interaction release package.

  • Logging Utilities

    The Logging Utilities consist of a set of three tools to receive, display, and store logging messages sent from AquaLogic User Interaction products.

  • Service Station

    Service Station enables developers of Integration Web Services to easily test and validate custom authentication, crawler, profile, and search web services. Service Station includes two methods for defining tests: an easy to use GUI, which enables users to create, modify, execute, and monitor tests without any programming; and a JUnit based framework which can be run and monitored from a Java IDE (or via Java-based build tools such as Ant).

  • WSRP Consumer and Producer

    If you want to deploy portlets in AquaLogic Interaction that conform to the WSRP portlet standard, you need the WSRP Consumer and the WSRP Producer. The WSRP Consumer is available as a stand-alone product and is included in the AquaLogic Interaction release package. The WSRP Producer is available as part of the .NET Application Accelerator.

  • UI Customization Installer

    The User Interface Customization Installer (UICI) automates most of the steps required to set up a development environment for the portal. Minimal Eclipse and Ant configuration is still necessary. The UICI is for advanced applications, most UI customizations can be accomplished through adaptive functionality available with AquaLogic Interaction.


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