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) > frederic.ravet...@anyware-services.com > 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 uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: >> frederic.ravet...@anyware-services.com >> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see >> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: > jennifer.bou...@gmail.com > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
