JSF, Ajax, and Seam portlet development with the JBoss Portlet Bridge
Tools in Action Abstract
The main goal of this talk is to introduce today's JSF developer (or component/portal seeking Java developer) to the world and benefits of Portlet development with the JBoss Portlet Bridge. The JBoss version of the JSR-301 implementation allows developers the ability to develop portlets with any mixture of Seam, RichFaces, and JSF. One of the main goals of the 301 specification is to make life easier on the JSF developer who chooses to integrate his web application into a portal environment. I will discuss the ease of setup, the ease of transition from a servlet based environment to a portlet based, and the ins and outs of everyday development in the enterprise. I will review real world development tips and tricks on how developers are using Seam and Ajax(Richfaces) to develop todays enterprise portlets. Finally, the JBoss Portlet Bridge project offers more than just integration of the Portal and JSF worlds - It opens the door to extensions based on each of the supported frameworks (i.e. SSO between Seam and Portal, etc...).
I will talk about how easy the 4 elements can tie together with Extensions to make portlet application development a breeze.
The presentation will end with the status of the 301 spec, discussion of the community, how to contribute/get involved and Q&A.
Speaker
Thomas Heute is the project leader at JBoss.org for Seam. After three years of researching information repositories at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and then PDA security for the National Security Agency (NSA), he became a contributor to the JBoss Portal project. He officially joined JBoss in 2004 as JBoss Portal developer.componentized frameworks (Seam), AJAX (RichFaces), and SSO, personalization, and security (Portal).
