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JBoss enterprise portal platform

What IS IT?

 

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform delivers web-based com
posite applications and high-performance web presences. It
uses enterprise standards to support a wide range of devel-
opment approaches that maximize flexibility and choice for
enterprise web user interfaces.

What does it do?

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform meets the demands of
internal and external end users who require access to
and interaction between back-end applications, SOA ser-
vices, and Web 2.0 applications. Based on an open, reliable
framework, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform can meet the
development and operational demands of the smallest tac-
tical mashup-style application all the way up to the largest
mission-critical web sites.

Why Should I care?

Over the years the marketplace has shifted away from
flexible, agnostic portals towards large, monolithic con-
tent and collaborative portal stacks. These stacks are
costly and complex to implement and manage. While they
may be a good solution for large, internal corporate web
sites, they're hard to justify for focused web efforts. What
today's organization needs is a low-cost, easily imple-
mented solution that can be utilized across a wide range
of composite application requirements. This is where an
independent middleware solution like JBoss Enterprise
Portal Platform fits in.

Overview

Many IT organizations are seeking a solution with a user
interface that unifies multiple projects. As efforts in areas
such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), content man-
agement, and business intelligence have expanded, it has
been difficult to give end users a UI to reap their benefits.
JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform facilitates the delivery of
web-based composite applications and unifies various IT
projects consistently and securely.

Through an agile, reusable framework, customers can
minimize the cost and complexity of their web infrastruc-
tures by reusing existing assets in a high-performance web
application environment. And thanks to the established
open standards, the risk of vendor lock-in is mitigated.
You're ensured compatibility.

As an integral component of JBoss Enterprise Middleware,
the large and vibrant JBoss.org developer community
fosters continued innovation and enterprise quality.
And JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is deployed on
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform the industry's
#1 J2EE-certified application platform ensuring perfor-
mance, scalability, and a reliable and straightforward
path to implementation.

KEY BENEFITS

Mash together old and new

A key advantage to adopting a portal strategy is the ability to
seamlessly weave old and new IT assets into new composite
applications. This opens the possibility of expanding application
services outward to new audiences or improving usability for
existing application audiences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
is designed to handle a wide range of these composite
application scenarios, from small departmental mashup
applications all the way up to large multi-million-user public
websites.

Enterprise-class reliability and scale

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform shields users from ser-
vice disruptions by leveraging JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform as its proven foundation for applications that
require superior performance and scalability. Its high-avail-
ability services provide the clustering, caching, failover,
load balancing, and distributed deployment features you
expect in a best-of-breed platform.

Get more value faster

Past portal technologies were criticized for their inability
to deliver business value in a short period of time. JBoss
Enterprise Portal Platform offers several ways to enable a
quicker return on investment. For example, an installation
of Enterprise Portal Platform can be completed in minutes,
and with new tooling plug-ins for JBoss Developer Studio,
developers can create new portlets more quickly than ever.

Increase IT agility

To meet the demands of lines of business, enterprise IT
teams need to stay on top of new techniques and technolo-
gies. The latest Java frameworks may address a specific
requirement that could not have been met in the past. A
merger or acquisition could bring a new skillset and new
opportunities. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is struc-
tured to support a wide range of frameworks. The recent
addition of the JBoss Portlet Bridge further facilitates an
organization's ability to stay one step ahead and not be
tied down by the platform.

Interoperable, flexible, open

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform supports the new Java
Portlet 2.0 specification (JSR-286) as well as other enter-
prise portal standards. This new specification builds on the
original portlet standard with better support for AJAX and
content caching as well as a new standards-based event-
ing mechanism. All of the new features deliver a richer end
user experience.

JBoss Enterprise Portal platform goes beyond the
standards to deliver a flexible and open framework that
supports a wide range of databases, LDAP servers, and
operating systems. As a leading open source portal middle-
ware provider, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform bene
fits from the innovations of a continuous and community
driven development ecosystem.

Portal Platform and architecture

  • Certified JSR 286 Portlet Container

  • Multiple portal instances can run inside one container

  • Portal instances can be clustered for failover

    and high availability

  • Portlets can have their own internationalization files

  • Portlets can be implemented using JBoss Seam, JSF,
    RichFaces, Spring MVC, AJAX

  • Portlet sessions can be replicated in a clustered
    environment

  • Portlets can communicate with each other in an implcit
    or explicit mode

  • WSRP base profile consumer and producer support

  • Pluggable themes, including layout wizards

    for adminstrators

  • Ability for users to create or destroy portlets and
    themes at runtime

  • Single sign-on support across portal and portlets

  • Support for many popular third-party SSO providers

  • Pluggable authentication services

  • Single binary installer includes JBoss Enterprise

    Application Platform for quick installation

Portal administration

  • User registration and login features

  • New user workflow and validation processes

  • Full user management and administration interface

  • Role- and group-based security model based on JAAS

  • User-managed dashboard pages for personal portlet and gadget-driven mashups

  • Page layout and theme management

  • Custom error pages

Content management

  • Based on Java Content Repository (JSR-170)
    specification

  • Upload binary content to any directory on system
    with configurable limits

  • Directory and file management

  • Version management

  • Support for multi-language documents

  • Integrated rich text editor

Platform and Standards Support

Minimum system requirements

  • JDK 1.5

  • 512 MB RAM

  • 50 MB hard disk space

  • 400 MhZ CPU

Supported operating systems

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is 100% pure Java and
interoperable with most operating systems capable of
running a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), including Linux,
Windows, and UNIX.

Supported databases

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is interoperable with
any JDBC-compliant database and is certified on MySQL,
Postgres, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.

Supported authentication and single sign-on

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform is LDAP 3.0 compliant
and supports Red Hat IPA, Sun, and MS Active Directory.

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform supports multiple single
sign-on solutions including CAS, OpenSSO and JOSSO.

Supported standards

  • Portlet Specification and API (JSR 286)

  • Web Services for Remote Portlets 1.0 (WSRP)

  • Portlet Bridge (JSR-301)

  • Content Repository for Java Technology API (JSR-170)

  • Java Sever Faces 1.2 (JSR-252)

  • Java Management Extension (JMX) 1.2

Subscription BENEFITS

 

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    Middleware released during the subscription lifetime

  • Flexibility: Subscriptions are not version-specific, so
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  • long-term stability: Multi-year support and update
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  • legal assurance: The Red Hat Open Source Assurance
    program safeguards customers who are developing and
    deploying open source solutions from legal harm

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additional value-add features, including JBoss
Operations Network and Developer Professional
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