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New Book: JBoss Portal Server Development - Sample Chapter Download

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Packt Publishing recently published a book on JBoss Portal; the book, titled JBoss Portal Server Development, is written by Ramanujam Rao - a JavaEE architect who currently works for Nationwide. Packt sent me a copy and asked that I write a review of the book, which I plan on doing in the next [...]

JBoss.com Forum Feeds with Yahoo Pipes

var dzone_style=”2″;I’ve always been an open source fan and for the past 2 or 3 years I’ve been working with JBoss products - lately JBoss Portal. So, I decided I want to become more active in the JBoss Portal forums on JBoss.com - unfortunately, though, their forums aren’t RSS-enabled and I’m a big RSS user.
So, [...]

Securing AJAX Servlets in JBoss Portal

Before the Portlet 2 specification (JSR286), the recommended method for adding AJAX functionality to a JSR168 portlet was to deploy an additional servlet to the portal server (either inside the same WAR as your portlet(s) or in a stand-alone WAR) to handle asynchronous requests. Requests to these servlets are then handled by the servlet container [...]

Compress your JBoss Portal Theme with pack:tag

The goal of this article is to show you how to use pack:tag to optimize the performance of your JBoss Portal theme. I’ve used this approach on a production JBoss Portal 2.6 implementation and tested the approach out in version 2.7.
JBoss Portal has a feature-rich theme framework where CSS and javascript resources are included in [...]

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 [...]