Project WebSynergy Milestone 4 Administration Guide

Preface

Project WebSynergy is Sun's next-generation Web 2.0 application aggregation and presentation platform. It is a suite of integrated software products that enables businesses large and small to pull together applications and content from a variety of Web-based and internal sources and present them as a unified, customizable portal on Web browsers, kiosks, and mobile devices. WebSynergy makes it easier for users to find and use the tools and information they need when they need them.

Project WebSynergy is a collaborative effort between Sun Microsystem's Portal Server team, the Liferay Community, and the OpenPortal community. WebSynergy integrates technologies from these three products to enable enterprise-class portals that are easy to use for end users, system administrators, and developers alike.

WebSynergy enables:

Social Networking for the Enterprise

Find people with the answers across organizations, silos, and hierarchies, and boost productivity in distributed teams.
Enterprise Widgets for Collaboration Work

Bundled Productivity Widget Suites to get work done (CMS, Workflow), and Information Widget Suite for Effective Collaboration (blogs, wikis).
Internet Widgets on the Enterprise Extranet

Build stickiness into your intranet with Google Gadgets, YouTube, and Facebook widgets.

Who Uses Project WebSynergy?

Project WebSynergy offers features for general users, system administrators, and application and portal developers.

For General Users, WebSynergy makes it easy to communicate, collaborate, and customize the applications shared by your organization. Social networking components, like blogs, wikis, bookmarks, and messaging can be presented side-by-side with proprietary and third-party business and productivity applications. Different user communities can have their own portals, layouts, and customizations, and WebSynergy can be scaled down or up to suit organizations from the very small up to the enterprise level.
For System Administrators, WebSynergy makes it easy to manage users, groups, communities, permissions, and highly specific levels of security. A browser-based GUI makes managing portals, portlets, plugins, and applications as simple as dragging and dropping. WebSynergy runs on top of the enterprise-class, open source GlassFish Application Server, which means that WebSynergy can be optimized according to your needs for performance, reliability, security, load balancing, and clustering, among other server characteristics.
For Application and Portal Developers, WebSynergy makes it easy to develop portlets, portals, plugins, services, content management, workflows, and themes using your own tools, including NetBeans^TM, Eclipse, and Dreamweaver. WebSynergy is based on the open source OpenPortal and Liferay 5.2 code bases, which means what you develop in WebSynergy will be standards-based, portable, and maintainable. You can combine familiar Ajax, Jmaki, Ruby, PHP, and Java technologies and techniques with WebSynergy's powerful presentation capabilities to deliver the kind of rich, dynamic, interactive user experience previously available only in complex custom-built Web applications.

Project WebSynergy Features

Project WebSynergy provides a new class of portal functionality by which users can define their own Web spaces. With built-in content and document management, human workflow development tools, enterprise identity integration, and social networking features, system administrators and application developers can now deploy a platform that allows for rapid rollout of next generation Web capabilities for their users.

Key WebSynergy features include:

Identity-based content delivery
User-managed Web spaces, including user self-Web publishing and user access controls
Rapid and simple Web site design tools make it possible to quickly set up Web sites for content, collaboration, and interactivity, with out of the box templates
Built-in collaboration, with bundled wiki, blog, task management, calendaring, document sharing, polls, IM, and email applications
Document and Web content management system with workflow, staging, and publication tools
Syndicate portlets and widgets with REST
Develop widgets using the JSR 286 portlet standard as well as scripting standards such as Ruby, PHP, and JMaki

Before You Read This Book

Readers should be familiar with the following products and concepts:

Sun Java System Directory Server
Sun Java System Access Manager
Your web container
- Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2/v3
Your operating system
Basic UNIX administrative procedures
LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)

How This Book Is Organized

The following are the chapters in the book:

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions


Typeface	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`aabbcc123`	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
C shell	`machine_name%`
C shell for superuser	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	`#`