This section describes the various alert services and alert events that are provided with the PAF and the Portal module’s Baseline Gears.
A pre-configured gear topic destination to which all gears’ messages are published. The destination is JMS-compliant and can be looked up by gears via the Java Naming & Directory Interface (JNDI).
A global Nucleus component named
AlertMgrthat provides an API to register message types with theirResourceBundle, persist alerts, and generate alerts in a locale-sensitive manner. This component can be looked up via JNDI.The
AlertRepositorythat holds alerts targeted to communities, organizations, roles, and individuals.An Alerts gear that is configurable to display alerts to a Web page.
A configurable
AlertRepositoryAdmincomponent responsible for removing expired alerts from theAlertRepository.
