It always bothered me that the JSR168 <portlet:actionURL /> and <portlet:renderURL /> tags didn’t encode their HTML character entities. The lack of encoding causes your HTML 4 or XHTML 1 markup to fail automated validation. After flipping through a bit more of the JSR286 spec, it mentions that in JSR168 “the behavior in regards to [...]
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The Perfect Portlet Markup
I thought I’d throw together a quick precursor to another post I plan on finishing in the next few days. This post is about portlets - or, how to structure the HTML markup for a JSR168/JSR286 portlet, to be more specific.
I’ve worked on theming portal user interfaces for a few years now, primarily on [...]
In response to JSR-286: The Edge of Irrelevance
var dzone_style=”2″;I have to admit, I can totally relate to Eric Spiegelberg’s article, JSR-286: The Edge of Irrelevance.
It’s a great article; in case you don’t have time to check it out, Eric’s main thesis is that:
the portal architecture lacks enough technical advantages and distinguishing features to warrant an increase in acceptance.
Nested LDAP Groups in JBoss Portal with Active Directory
While JBoss Portal supports Active Directory for authentication and authorization, as of versions 2.6.X and the 2.7 CR, the product does not support nested groups for a given user when the LDAP server itself does not provide recursive capabilities. Unfortunately, Microsoft Active Directory does not support recursive queries for nested groups.
In this article, I’ll describe [...]
