Organisers
- Mark Baker and Mat Grove (University of Reading),
- Rob Allan (Daresbury Lab).
Introduction
The event is for technical developers who wish to meet together to talk, demonstrate and discuss issues, and possible solutions, to matters related to the development of Portal-based applications and the use of JSR-168 portlets. The event will NOT be about any particular portal, but about tools, issues, solutions and the work-arounds necessary. It is important to note that this event is not about advertising any particular project or group of researchers.
Event Overview
The event will consists of three parts:- A series of invited short talks (max 20 minutes each) that address particular issues or matters that the speakers deem should be addressed,
- The interactive session will allow attendees to team up to discuss issues, help each other with problems, or jointly try to solve particular technical issues that are of concern,
- The moderated panel session will discuss matters related to the pros and cons of portals, the technolgies used by portals, and also where the panelists see portals being in 3-5 years time.
Workshop Schedule
- 1015 - 1035: David Meredith (Daresbury) - Data Staging and Parametric Job Submissions in the NGS JSDL Application Repository Portal (slides).
- 1035 - 1055: John Watt (Glasgow) - The OMII-SP Suite: Portlets for Security Management (slides).
- 1055 - 1115: Mat Grove (Reading) - Issues with portal integration and code reuse in portlets (slides).
- 1115 - 1135: Mike Jones (Bristol) - Portlet development with the Spring Application Framework (slides).
- 1135 - 1155: Steve Millidge (C2B2) - Portlets 2.0: New portlet features coming in JSR 286 which enable the development of rich portal applications (slides).
- 1155 - 1215: Xiaobo Yang (Daresbury) - Practical Experiences with JSR 286 (slides).
- 1215 - 1235: Jos Koetsier (NeSC) A Portlet job submission system (slides).
- What are the biggest pros and cons with portals?
- Are there better technologies that will replace current portals?
- What will we be using instead of portals in 3-5 years time?
Short Talks on issues with portals and portlets
Draft Names and Presentation Titles
Lunch - 1235 - 1330
Interactive Session - 1330 - 1500
Short Break - 1430 - 1500: Tea/Coffee/Biscuits
Panel Session - 1500 - 1600: Moderator - Mark Baker (University of Reading)
Getting here
The workshop will take place in the Common Room of building 38 (Computer Science - which is part of the School of Systems Engineering) on the Whiteknights campus. This is located near the Pepper Lane entrance to the University and by car park P11.
Directions to the University, campus maps, and bus and rail details can be found on the university web page http://www.reading.ac.uk/maps/.
Travel Reimbursement
The workshop can host a maximum of 50 attendees - based on a first come basis! JISC will reimburse travel and food subsistence of the FIRST thirty applicants to apply to attend the workshop. JISC will refund expenses up to a maximum of 100 UK pounds towards travel and food subsistence. Note that if you are funded by a JISC VRE2 project then that project should fund your trip.
JISC expenses should be claimed via this Excel spreadsheet, and should be sent to:
Frederique van Till
JISC Executive
Brettenham House (South Entrance)
5 Lancaster Place
London
WC2E 7EN
Contacting VERA
If you would like to attend the workshop please reply to
by
Wednesday the 21st February 2008.
Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require any further information about the workshop, or the VERA project itself.