The general consensus seems to be in favor of using AccuWeather so I would like to proceed with implementation of this service and as I hear more from AccuWeather I will update this thread. We can also continue another discussion as to the inclusion in uPortal.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Jen Bourey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dustin, > > At the moment the source is only in our local repository, but I'd be more > than happy to contribute it. It might make sense to reorganize the files to > use maven first, which shouldn't take long. > > - Jen > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Dustin S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jen, > > > > Is the the source of your portlet available anywhere? Would you mind > > committing it to a branch in /sandbox/WeatherPortlet ...? I'm sure this > > could be useful for development. > > > > Thanks, > > Dustin. > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jen Bourey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > This looks fantastic! > > > > > > At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to > > > unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a > > > JSP > > > page. I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in > > > the > > > RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as > > > well as the ability to display more data. We've been pretty happy with > > > that > > > approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for > > > international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more > > > data. I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to > > > display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted. > > > > > > Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here: > > > http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet. > > > > > > - Jen > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Dustin S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > 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). > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL > > > PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > > > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > > > > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL > > PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] 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 [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
