Infrastructure portal: definition, role
Concept of portlets, JSR 168, life cycle
Available portlet containers
Presentation of JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS)
Architecture of JBoss and JBoss Portal

Portal and development environment
Portlets: specifications, states, modes
Implementations, customization, cache
Deployment in JBoss Portal
Multiple instantiation of portlets
Using CSS style sheets

Practical workshop: installation of JBoss Portal and the development environment – Realization of portlets and deployment

Integration of portlets in an existing Web application
Presentation of the Model-View-Controller
Frameworks available
Struts, Spring MVC, JSF: presentation and uses in JBoss Portal

Hands-on Lab: Implementing and Deploying MVC Portlets in JBoss Portal

SOA (Services Oriented Architecture)
WSRP (WebServices Remote Portlet)
Publishing remote portlets

Hands-on Workshop: Deploying WSRP

Management of user profiles and groups
Management of user preferences
Content localization
Security management: roles, SSO, JAAS integration

Practical workshop: various settings of JBoss Portal – integration of JAAS

Monitoring: memory, cache, sessions, …
Use of the advanced features of JEMS
Management of the cache of the portlet container
Clustering and load balancing
Optimization and performance of the platform

Practical workshop: advanced administration and monitoring tasks – integrations and clustering