I just finished writing a simple Sakai Dashboard JSR-168 portlet. The portlet logs into a Sakai server on behalf of a user and retrieves and RSS feed of the sites and their announcements for the user. Then the feed is displayed in the portlet – all of the links are target=_new so there are ZERO iframes in the portlet and portal.
\nI need to write documentation for it (of course) – but the code is here:
\nhttps:\/\/source.sakaiproject.org\/contrib\/portlets\/trunk\/
\nThis directory now can be checked out and compiles *outside* of a Sakai source tree – it only needs the Sakai maven plugin.
\nmaven plugin:download -DgroupId=sakaiproject -DartifactId=sakai -Dversion=2.2
\nThis portlet configures and operates much like the Launch Portlet that we have had for a while now. It uses SakaiPortalLogin.jws like the other portlets. The Dashboard portlet can be configured via Admin-specified preferences in addition to the portlet.xml -this should make it easier to install and configure.
\nI use Rome to retrieve and parse the feed – all the markup is in Velocity. I have code in place to retrieve the raw feed in case someone wants to apply some XSLT to it to make it prettier.
\nYes, I know the portlet is ugly – that is why all the markup is in Velocity so folks can fix it for me – or just switch to XSLT. I am going to run through some deployment scenarios in uPortal and Pluto and write some basic documentation about how to set things up.
\nI took the opportunity to go through the portlets and do some general cleanup and improve some patterns as I have gained more experience in writing portlets and portlet support code.
\nThanks to Alves Phillipe from Pierre-Marie Curie Institute who worked with me at JA-Sig on the idea to get me started.
\nComments, patches, etc needed and welcomed. I use a new mechanism to retrieve remote user, etc – so I need a parch to my lookupPortalType method in PortletHelper.java for Gridsphere and Oracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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