N2 Collabo

N2 Collabo provides Groupware and Collaboration features as JSR 168 compliant portlet. These portlets are developed by Portal Application Laboratory project. N2 Collabo runs on JSR 168 compliant Portal Server, such as Jetspeed 2, Liferay, and JBoss Portal. N2 Collabo Community Edition is free to download and use under Apache license. N2 Collabo contains the following components:

• Scheduler
• Address List
• Facilities Management
• Message Board
• Timecard
• TODO List
• Bookmark
• Chat
• Notepad
• Google Gadgets
• Netvibes Widgets
• Virtual File System (VFS)
• User Management

It is much appreciated if you can provide any feedback and contribution to us.

Netvibes Widgets Portlet 1.0 Released

Netvibes Widget Portlet enables you to display Netvibes Widgets on your portlet.

Step to run it
1) Get netvibes-widgets.war
2) Deploy netvibes-widgets.war(for the detail, see portal server's document)
3) Select a widget you want to use on EDIT mode.

Google Gadgets Portlet 1.0 Released

Google Gadgets Portlet enables you to display Google Gadgets on your portlet.

Step to run it
1) Get googlegadgets.war
2) Deploy googlegadgets.war(for the detail, see portal server's document)
3) Select a gadget you want to use on EDIT mode.

PAL Portal 1.1 Released

PAL Portal is JSR 168 compliant portal server. This portal is Jetspeed2 based server and includes portlets which PAL project provides. In this release, features are:

• New Logging System
• Improved WCM
• New Site Management System
• SEO support
• Improved Page Design(using jQuery 1.2)
• A lot of bug fixes
  

It is much appreciated if you can provide any feedback to us.

Download from: PAL Portal 1.1

How to install:

Note: Before running PAL Portal, you will need to install
Java SDK(1.5.x or later) and set environment JAVA_HOME
properly.

1. Download PALPortal-1.1-installer.jar
2. Run installer
Open command shell, or DOS command box, type:
$ java -jar PALPortal-1.1-installer.jar
You will see the installer executed. (Don't type '$')
3. Execute /bin/startup.[sh|bat]
4. Access http://localhost:8080/palportal to display
PAL Portal. To login as an administrator, you can use
admin/admin as Username/Password. To modify default pages,
create a use with siteadmin role and then edit pages
in /__subsite-root.

How to deploy PALab's portlets:

1. Login as admin
2. Navigate to Root >> Portal Administration >> Portlet Management
3. Click Deploy link you want to deploy

How to uninstall:

1. Delete the install directory,

PAL Portal 1.0.5 Released

PAL Portal is JSR 168 compliant portal server. This portal is Jetspeed2 based server and includes portlets which PAL project provides. In this release, features are:

• Bug fixes
  
• Supported PSML in DB
• Cluster support
• Improved logging
• Improved SSL page handling
• Improved SSO features
• Code cleanup
  

It is much appreciated if you can provide any feedback to us.

Download from: PAL Portal 1.0.5

How to install:

Note: Before running PAL Portal, you will need to install
Java SDK(1.5.x or later) and set environment JAVA_HOME
properly.

1. Download PALPortal-install-1.0.5.jar
2. Run installer
Open command shell, or DOS command box, type:
$ java -jar PALPortal-install-1.0.5.jar
You will see the installer executed. (Don't type '$')
3. Execute /bin/startup.[sh|bat]
4. Access http://localhost:8080/palportal to display
PAL Portal. To login as an administrator, you can use
admin/admin as Username/Password. To modify default pages,
use site/site as Site manager.

How to deploy PALab's portlets:

1. Login as admin
2. Navigate to Root >> Portal Administration >> Portlet Management
3. Click Deploy link you want to deploy

How to uninstall:

1. Delete the install directory,

PAL Portal 1.0.4 Released

PAL Portal is JSR 168 compliant portal server. This portal is Jetspeed2 based server and includes portlets which PAL project provides. In this release, features are:

• Bug fixes
  
• Added UserManagerServlet to do a batch processing for user info.
  

It is much appreciated if you can provide any feedback to us.

Download from: PAL Portal 1.0.4

How to install:

Note: Before running PAL Portal, you will need to install
Java SDK(1.5.x or later) and set environment JAVA_HOME
properly.

1. Download PALPortal-install-1.0.4.jar
2. Run installer
Open command shell, or DOS command box, type:
$ java -jar PALPortal-install-1.0.4.jar
You will see the installer executed. (Don't type '$')
3. Execute /bin/startup.[sh|bat]
4. Access http://localhost:8080/palportal to display
PAL Portal. To login as an administrator, you can use
admin/admin as Username/Password. To modify default pages,
use site/site as Site manager.

How to deploy PALab's portlets:

1. Login as admin
2. Navigate to Root >> Portal Administration >> Portlet Management
3. Click Deploy link you want to deploy

How to uninstall:

1. Delete the install directory,

How to configure PAL Portal and OpenSSO

PAL Portal supports OpenSSO by putting PAL's OpenSSOFilter to web.xml. If you use Jetspeed2, you can apply the same procedure to your J2. The procedure is below:

1. Setup OpenSSO.
2. Download palportal-sso-2.1.3_pal-1.0.3.jar and openssoclientsdk.jar, and copy them to webapps/palportal/WEB-INF/lib/.
3. Edit webapps/palportal/WEB-INF/web.xml

...
  <filter>
    <filter-name>OpenSSOFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>jp.sf.pal.portal.sso.opensso.OpenSSOFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>loginURL</param-name>
      <param-value>http://servername:8080/opensso</param-value>
    </init-param>
  </filter>
...
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>OpenSSOFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
...