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Consuming Blackboard
Content into Microsoft
SharePoint Portal Server
2003 Using WSRP
Nick Schiavi
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Agenda
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Intro and Background
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Why is it so cool anyway?
How do we use it?
Examples
A Picture’s worth 1000 words…or at least 2500
lines of code
Q&A
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WSRP in Brief
“Standardizing presentation-oriented Web services for use by
aggregating intermediaries, such as portals”
-Rich Thompson, OASIS WSRP Chair
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Application Interoperability
Producer-Consumer Relationship
Services and Purpose
Standards
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WSRP Data vs. Presentation
Data-Oriented
Data
Presentation-Oriented
Data
Presentation logic
Render
Presentation Logic
Render
Markup
SOAP
SOAP
XML
<portlet>
<data>…</data>
</portlet>
<html>
<presentation>
<data>…</data>
</presentation>
</html>
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WSRP Producers and Consumers
Producers responsible for offering portlets and
services
» Consumers responsible for connecting to
producers, requesting portlets via services, and
displaying markup in a container
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WSRP Services
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Service Description (required)
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Markup (required)
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Request portlet markup from producer
Interact with markup
Registration (optional)
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Connect to producer and request listing of available portlets
Bind to producer with specific registration context
Portlet Management (optional)
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Request to clone and customize portlets
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WSRP Service Flow: Bb Community Connector
User
Adds
Web part
WSRP Consumer
SharePoint Service
Web Part
View Web part
Description
WSRP Producer
Bb Community Connector
Blackboard
Building Block™
Cloned Portlet
Web Part
Markup
Blackboard
Building Block™
Portlet Markup
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Web Part
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WSRP Standards
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OASIS WSRP v1
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Communication standard
Platform independent
Implemented by wsrp4j, SharePoint, many others
JSR-168
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Portlet standard
Reference implementation by Pluto
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Agenda
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Intro and Background
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Why is it so cool anyway?
How do we use it?
» Examples
» A Picture’s worth 1000 words…or at least 2500
lines of code
» Q&A
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Why is This So Cool Anyway?
Portal-to-Portal Integration
2. Seamless SSO
3. LESS CODE TO WRITE!
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Portal-to-Portal…to-App-to-App-to-App
App x:
Roll Your Own
Consumer
Blackboard
Community
Connector
App x:
Roll Your Own
Consumer
App x:
App x:
Roll Your Own
Consumer
SharePoint
Roll Your Own
Consumer
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Seamless Single Sign On
WSRP provides a natural segue to SSO
» Credentials can be sent at Registration time, as
part of the Markup context, or in WS-Security
headers
» Bb goes one step further to use the Blackboard
application to process credentials natively
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Less Work for Everyone
WSRP does the work for you
» Adding portlets is a matter of configuration
» No excess deployment or service management
» No code to write to render portlets
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Agenda
Intro and Background
» Why is it so cool anyway?
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How do we use it?
Examples
» A Picture’s worth 1000 words…or at least 2500
lines of code
» Q&A
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The Blackboard Community Connector for Microsoft
SharePoint Portal Server 2003™
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Blackboard Building Block  Self-contained
WSRP4J
Acts as producer
» Four portlets each implement JSR-168
» WSRP4J provides communication brokerage
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SharePoint  GotDotNet web part
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Acts as consumer
One web part per portlet
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Which Portlets Come With the Connector?
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Portlets
MyCourses
» MyGrades
» MyPortfolios
» MyOrganizations
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Anatomy of a Portlet
Portlet Container
org.apache.pluto
org.apache.pluto.om
org.apache.pluto.services
Portlets
Live in
Portlet
Portlet
Portlet
Portlet
org.apache.pluto.core.impl
Extend
Implements
Portlet API
javax.portlet
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How is SSO Accomplished?
Leverage the Bb API to authenticate, just like any
other Blackboard Building Block™
» Security…how do we configure this SSO
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Web server delegation
» Web server headers process the user name sent from
SharePoint
» Portlet authenticates and creates content
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User logs into
SharePoint
Security Model
Credentials
SharePoint IIS
CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
Kerberos
Store
Ticketing
Credential
Check
Blackboard IIS –
Active Directory
Mode
Authentication
via API
Portlet
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Agenda
Intro and Background
» Why is it so cool anyway?
» How do we use it?
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Examples
A Picture’s worth 1000 words…or at least 2500
lines of code
» Q&A
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WSRP Web Parts
Defined in
WSRPProxy
Web part
rendering is the
same
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All the changes necessary for a new consumer…
Portlet
Producer URL
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The Portlet
Portlet class extends javax.portlet.GenericPortlet
Grabbing the username from the portlet request
Setting the content type to return the markup
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Portlet Config
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Agenda
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Intro and Background
Why is it so cool anyway?
How do we use it?
Examples
A Picture’s worth 1000 words…or at least 2500
lines of code
Q&A
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Blackboard Community Connector Operation
Blackboard 7.1
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Producer: Blackboard Building
Portlet
Block
Blackboard
Building Block
Consumer: Web Parts
WSRP4J
SharePoint
Portal Server
Consumers
Portlet
Web
Part
Web
Part
Web
Part
Web
Part
Portlet
Portlet
Implement
JSR-168
Implement
WSRP
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References
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OASIS WSRP
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JCP JSR-168
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http://portals.apache.org/wsrp4j/gettingstarted/index.html
Pluto
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http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168
WSRP4J
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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/
GotDotNet WSRP communities
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http://www.gotdotnet.com/
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Agenda
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Intro and Background
Why is it so cool anyway?
How do we use it?
Examples
A Picture’s worth 1000 words…or at least 2500
lines of code
Q&A
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Ask away…
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Contact
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[email protected]
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