Hello, Xavier- Please excuse my late reply. I just wanted to welcome you to the Jasig uPortal lists. We are looking forward to collaborating with the ESUP Mobile team and with the Anywhere-Services efforts. So I hope we can continue this dialog as the work progresses.
Best, Jonathan On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Xavier Pétard <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > our wiki pages about ESUP Mobile are in French, and before I have enough > time to explain precisely what we have done or want to do, let me sketch it. > We want to : > > - provide help for our community on mobile-ready uportal packages > (hence our emails about lost sessions in 3.2.4) ; > - provide a list of tested mobile portlets, whether coming from jasig > or done locally ; > - provide a framework to ease portlets development. We are currently > rewriting our esup-commons framework, to be less tied to specific rendering > methods : some developers here use JSF (Trinidad for mobile compliance, > http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJCOMMONS/Esup-commons-jsf-trinidad), > some others SpringMVC ( > http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJCANSTOCK/Esup+Portlet+Stockage). > The last version is not anymore, like Frederic Ravetier mentioned, tied to > JSF. Anyway, all the improvements made on the JSF part will certainly be > included ;-) > > We know for sure we will have to write different views between desktop and > mobile, but one of the main questions now is device detection, which has to > be consistent between portal and portlets, user being able to switch between > views. > > Thanks to Frederic Ravetier, he was quicker than me talking about ESUP > Mobile. Anyware-Services is working with us on the project, with the Paris > Universities (UNR Paris Ile de France). > > Xavier Pétard > ESUP Portail > > > > Le 22/11/10 19:12, Jen Bourey a écrit : > > Hi Frederic, > > It's great to hear from you, and I'm looking forward to Jasig and Esup > Portail collaborating on mobile development. I've been involved in both the > mobile theme development for uPortal, as well as some of the mobile portlet > development. I'm traveling for the holidays today, but I'll try to compose > a summary of what I know of the current state of mobile support in uPortal > trunk, as well as some of the changes we've talked about making. > > - Jen > > > On Nov 22, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Frédéric Ravetier wrote: > > Hello, > > I am the project manager for the "ESUP Mobile Project", working at > Anyware-Services. > We started the development last week. Our first portlet is a portlet to > display messages (email from an IMAP server that is under CAS). > Note that most of the ESUP portlet are using JSF (which is a real > difficulty to use the taglib WNG from Wurfl with JSF). Also the goal is to > have a multi-channel portlet (available to display data on mobile and > desktop). > > Our strategy is: > 1- to develop a web portlet with a default and simple skin (based on JSF) > 2- build a filter (tomcat filter) based on WURFL to detect if the user is > using a mobile or a desktop browser > 3- make a mechanism to choose the JSP depending of the detection (mobile to > use WNG taglib - from WURFL - or desktop to use classic JSF taglib) > 4- modify the WNG taglib to work in an JSF environment. > > The last step may failed or may be too hard or too complicate to maintain. > In this case we will reduce our constraints and we will use another taglib > to render data to mobile. We already think about Trinidad. If you have > suggestion I am open to them. We'd like to avoid framework or library that > are only webkit compatible, because we'd like to support many mobile > browsers and not only iphone and smartphone. It is a wish that can be reduce > depending on the complexity and the maintainability. > > Why WURFL, because it is THE taglib known by most of the mobile developers > that want a real compatibility with most of the mobiles. > > We are currently at step 2. We made the step 1 with some small doubt on > step 1 because of the CAS environment, we do not have an IMAP that support > CAS here. > > Do you have suggestions? > Do you have others informations? > Do not hesitate to contact me in order to have more information or to share > some knowledge. > > Then we will have some others portlet to enhance or to develop (Calendar, > Directory based on LDAP, news, ...) > > Let me know if you prefer another discussion channel than this one. > > Sincerely, > > Frédéric Ravetier > Project Manager > Anyware-Services (www.anyware-services.com) > [email protected] > Phone: +33 5 62 19 19 03 > Ametys: The CMS Java Open Source www.ametys.org > > > Le 22/11/2010 16:03, Jonathan Markow a écrit : > > I recently had a conversation with Alain Mayeur, director of ESUP Portail, > the nation-wide consortium of French universities that have developed a > "Digital Work Space" based on uPortal, CAS, and a host of other open source > applications that they have developed or integrated. Alain told me about > two projects currently underway that are of interest to Jasig. > > The first one is the ESUP Mobile Project. With several participating > universities, this project is working to coordinate the development of > mobile services supported by the mobile framework in uPortal 3.2. The wiki > page for the project (in French) is located at > http://www.esup-portail.org/display/PROJESUPMOBILE/Projet+ESUP+Mobile. > > A second project, also the result of a collaboration among several > organizations, is designed to enhance the content management capabilities of > uPortal. > > Alain will ask the project leads to send us more information about these > initiatives. I am hoping there might be some areas in which Jasig > developers would be able to contribute. > > -Jonathan > > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > Xavier Pétard > Centre de Ressources Informatiques > Université de La Rochellehttp://www.univ-larochelle.fr > > -- > > 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
