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Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator

Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator. Mark Baker School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading Tel: +44 118 378 8615 E-mail: Mark.Baker@computer.org Web: http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab. Outline. Introduction. Deliverables. Recent Contributions: Daresbury, Lancaster, Oxford, Reading.

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Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator

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  1. Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator Mark Baker School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading Tel: +44 118 378 8615 E-mail: Mark.Baker@computer.org Web: http://acet.rdg.ac.uk/~mab mark.baker@computer.org

  2. Outline • Introduction. • Deliverables. • Recent Contributions: • Daresbury, • Lancaster, • Oxford, • Reading. • Summary and Conclusions. mark.baker@computer.org

  3. Introduction • A collaboration between: • Objectives: • To provide a working VRE demonstrator, based on the Sakai portal, to introduce the concept, capabilities and benefits to scientists. • To engage with scientist by providing a frequently updated VRE environment to: • Play, learn and gain experience, • Support projects. CCLRC Daresbury Rob Allan Lancaster University Rob Crouchley University of Oxford Mike Fraser University of Reading Mark Baker mark.baker@computer.org

  4. Sakai Collaboration Tools Schedule Resources Web Content Chat Discussion E-Mail New Sakai Tools LDQ Upload Whiteboard CopperCore IRC Wiki Audio Conferencing Resource Search CREE Information Tools JAFER GetRef HEIRPORT Google Grid Tools MDS LDAP Browser Grid: Proxy Manager Job Submission Job monitor FTP Other Portlets NaradaBrokering Conferencing Semantic Search Grid Markets Tools Negociation Client Payment Service Client Data Management Tools SRB OGSA-DAI Service Registry UDDI publish/ discovery Dynamic WSDL Interface Support Tools Certificate Upload Desktop FTP Deliverables mark.baker@computer.org

  5. Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator Recent Work mark.baker@computer.org

  6. Daresbury • Public demonstrator (http://rhine.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal) - login -- guest:guest • Demonstrator running on Oracle hosted by NGS. • WSRP consumer developed and tested (see ). • Communication with Microsoft Exchange being tested. • Tool under development for conference paper management (upload, edit, review). • Sakai is hosting content for a number of projects and approx 200 users. mark.baker@computer.org

  7. Lancaster Blogger Tool: Version 1 of the blogger has been released to the Sakai community for site testing: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/blogger. It can be checked out of Sakai Subversion repository. When the blogger has been tested at enough Sakai sites it will be moved from the contrib area to the live area and will be an active part of every default Sakai installation in the world. More information or for a trial e-mail Adrian Fish or Miguel Gonzalez at Lancaster Lancaster mark.baker@computer.org

  8. Lancaster • Video Conferencing Tool: • A single tool offers audio and video conference, distributed whiteboard, share your desktop and broadcast movies. • The conferencing tool is approaching a first release stage. • Most of the features that we want are in and we are now eliminating bugs and writing developer and user documentation. mark.baker@computer.org

  9. Oxford • Integrated WebAuth with Shibboleth. • Documented the integration: • http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/ShibbolethInstallNotes. • http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/SakaiVre/ShibbolethWebAuthIntegration. • Installed SAKAI. • Documented SAKAI configuration: • http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/SakaiNotes. • Working on Shibboleth SAKAI integration: • http://sakai-vre-demo.oucs.ox.ac.uk/portal. • Investigating user attributes for searching: • Allows us to make educated guesses about what kinds of things users are likely to be searching for, what kinds of tools and vocabularies they're expecting to be able to use to search. mark.baker@computer.org

  10. Reading • Integrating Legacy Applications into a Portal: • Investigated whether script-based Web applications, such as PHP can be used in a J2EE environment, • Investigated how PHP applications can be reused as portlets, • Deployed and tested a number of PHP applications as portlets, • Will add useful tools to the Sakai Demonstrator, • Report on experiences can be found at: • http://dsg.port.ac.uk/projects/VRE/docs.php. mark.baker@computer.org

  11. Reading • Bridging Technologies: • JSR-223: • Allows Java to communicate objects with script-based languages and vice versa, • To be included with the next release of Sun JDK “Mustang”. • PHP-JavaBridge: • Described as a XML-based network protocol, • Allows communications between Java and PHP, • Provides a suitable environment to execute PHP scripts under Apache Tomcat. • PortletBridge-Portlet: • Renders Web pages into a JSR-168 portlet, • Proxies links and other external resources contained in a Web page, • Can load multiple instances, with different configurations. mark.baker@computer.org

  12. Reading mark.baker@computer.org

  13. Summary • All partners making good progress. • Deploying and supporting Sakai at a number of sites. • Beginning to more fully understand the needs of the VRE user community. • E-Social Science “Use Case” study underway: • Want to understand exactly what tools and services the user community need. • Keen to get user groups and the wider community engaged and gather more feedback. • Organising Portals and Portlet workshop next week at NeSC: • http://www.grids.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/EResearch/PortalsProgramme mark.baker@computer.org

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