Jen, The data provided is far superior to any other service that I've seen, I was really impressed when I first saw it. The API for getting locations is *also really* nice IMO. You can see an example here: http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/city-find.asp?location=london . The location string can take many types of values (zipcode, city, city and country).
Jim, My goal right now is to create the portlet to be as pluggable as possible. I kind of envision it boiling down to implementing one interface (WeatherDao), however I may run into some dependencies between the view and the implemented service. I came up with a rough design that is already sitting in the trunk (https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/trunk/) but it is going to need some more adjusting I'm sure. I am entirely open to suggestions on a pluggable design if anyone has any! On Feb 13, 2008 8:22 PM, Jim Helwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option. > > It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned about this. > > My two cents, > JimH > > on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following: > > > > > I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the > > possibility of using their services for weather data. > > > > AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox > > add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can > > visit http://www.accuweather.com/ > > > > AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with > > and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather > > portlet. An example: > > http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1 > > < http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1 > > > > > Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather > > logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without > > permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo > > and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact > > AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial > > users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial > > user that could cause an overload to their servers. > > > > AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as > > /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. > > > > I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the > > commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in > > UP3 hence the reason for this post. > > > > What does everyone else think? > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > > > -- > Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" > April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA > > Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! > Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html > > > > > You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
