MyPortal
... professional open source J2EE web portal system ... ...

Brief Introduction
MyPortal is an open source Java/ J2EE web portal system (JSR 168 compliant). It is a fork of the Liferay Enterprise Portal. We aim to build a non-EJB version of the Liferay Enterprise Portal that can be run in a standalone servlet container such as Tomcat.
 
The Project
Status
Roadmap
Functionality
Technology
Why Non-EJB ??
License
About Us
 
Technical BLOG
 
Open Source Process
CVS vs. New Developer
Debugging
 
Development Team
Software Architect
Kelvin Yap, Malaysia
 
Developers
Chew Hock Ping, Malaysia
Lai Yick Hiung, Malaysia
MK Tan, Malaysia
Vincent Wong, Malaysia

 

 


Technology

Architecture - Comparison

The current Liferay architecture is like this...
HTML --> Struts --> Session EJB --> Hibernate --> Database

Whereas MyPortal is doing this way...
HTML --> Struts --> Spring --> Hibernate --> Database

The design of MyPortal also comply with the Java Portlet API 1.0 (JSR 168).
 
 
posted at 4:30PM +0800, Fri, 27 Aug 2004 by Kelvin Yap

Architecture - Implementation

For the presentation layer we will use Struts; for our business layer we will use Spring; and for our persistence layer we will use Hibernate. The following diagram shows what this looks like from a high level when the frameworks are combined.


(extracts from "Wiring Your Web Application with Open Source Java", by Mark Eagle)



We are breaking down the development of MyPortal mainly into 2 sub-projects, that are:
  1. Web Module
  2. Service Module
The Web Module is ideal for an entry level J2EE developer (web component developer) to participate. The technologies used in this module include Struts Action, Struts ActionForm, Struts Tiles, JSP, Servlet, JSTL, Struts Tag Libraries, Java Portlet API (JSR 168), HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet. In order to make this module suitable for an entry level J2EE developer, we will not introduce additional technologies such as Velocity, XSLT, Spring Web MVC, etc.

The Service Module is ideal for a middle level developer (business component developer) to take part. The technologies used in this module include Struts (integration with Spring), Spring (IoC & AOP), Hibernate, XDoclet, MiddleGen, JUnit and Ant. Newer technology may be introduced into this module, if it fits the purpose.

For the Implementation of the Service Module, we are following the concepts as described in Matt Raible's Spring Live Chapter 2, the very easy to follow, 45 pages tutorial. The tutorial is available as a free download, in PDF format.

The tutorial teach you how to create a simple application for user management that does basic CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete). This application is called MyUsers, which will be the sample application throughout the book. It’s a 3-tiered webapp, with a Struts Action (UserAction) that calls a business delegate (UserManager), which in turn calls a Data Access Object (UserDAO). The diagram below shows a brief overview of how the MyUsers application will work when you finish this tutorial. The numbers below indicate the order of flow – from the web layer (UserAction) to the middle tier (UserManager), to the data layer (UserDAO) – and back again.



This application uses Struts as the MVC framework because most people are more familiar with Struts. The real power of Spring lies in its declarative transactions, dependency binding and persistence support (for example Hibernate and iBATIS).

 
posted at 10:30PM +0800, Mon, 27 September 2004 by Kelvin Yap

Development Environment
 
We use these tools & technologies to develop MyPortal...
  1. JDK 1.4
  2. Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2, Tomcat 4.1
  3. Java Portlet API 1.0 (JSR 168)
  4. Struts 1.1
  5. Spring 1.1
  6. Hibernate 2.1
  7. Lucene
  8. Velocity
  9. Ant 1.6
  10. Jakarta Commons Libraries
  11. Log4J
  12. CVS
  13. SQL-compliant database
  14. HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet
  15. Preferred IDE, Eclipse

Wrap lines at 80 spaces, indent at 2 spaces and do not use tabs. Follow the Java Code Conventions. And MOST important of all, follow the precedence of the rest of the code.
 
 
posted at 6:30PM +0800, Fri, 27 Aug 2004 by Kelvin Yap

 


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