Open source technology enables you to build customized enterprise portal frameworks with more flexibility and fewer limitations. This book explains the fundamentals of a powerful set of open source tools and shows you how to use them.

An outstanding team of authors provides a complete tutorial and reference guide to Java Portlet API, Lucene, James, and Slide, taking you step by step through constructing and deploying portal applications. You will trace the anatomy of a search engine and understand the Lucene query syntax, set up Apache James configuration for a variety of servers, explore object to relational mapping concepts with Jakarta OJB, and acquire many other skills necessary to create J2EE™ portals uniquely suited to the needs of your organization.

Loaded with code-intensive examples of portal applications, this volume offers you the know-how to free your development process from the restrictions of pre-packaged solutions.

What you will learn from this book

• How to evaluate business requirements and plan the portal
• How to develop an effective browser environment
• How to provide a search engine, messaging, database inquiry, and content management services in an integrated portal application
• How to develop Web services for the portal
• How to monitor, test, and administer the portal
• How to create portlet applications compliant with the Java Portlet API
• How to reduce the possibility of errors while managing the portal to accommodate change
• How to plan for the next generation application portal

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