Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator Mark Baker School of

Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator Mark Baker School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading Tel: +44 118 378 8615 E-mail: Mark. Baker@computer. org Web: http: //acet. rdg. ac. uk/~mab 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Outline • Introduction. • Deliverables. • Recent Contributions: – – Daresbury, Lancaster, Oxford, Reading. • Summary and Conclusions. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Introduction • A collaboration between: CCLRC Daresbury Lancaster University Rob Allan Rob Crouchley University of Oxford University of Mike Fraser Mark Baker Reading • Objectives: – To provide a working VRE demonstrator, based on the Sakai portal, to introduce the concept, capabilities and benefits to scientists. – To engage with scientist by providing a frequently updated VRE environment to: • Play, learn and gain experience, • Support projects. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Deliverables • Sakai Collaboration Tools – – – Schedule Resources Web Content Chat Discussion E-Mail 2 July, 2006 • • Proxy Manager Job Submission Job monitor FTP Narada. Brokering Conferencing Semantic Search – Negociation Client – Payment Service Client – – SRB OGSA-DAI – – UDDI publish/ discovery Dynamic WSDL Interface – LDQ Upload Whiteboard Copper. Core IRC Wiki Audio Conferencing Resource Search JAFER Get. Ref HEIRPORT Google MDS LDAP Browser Grid: – – Certificate Upload • Grid Markets Tools • Data Management Tools • CREE Information Tools – – – • Other Portlets • New Sakai Tools – – – – • Grid Tools • Service Registry • Support Tools – mark. baker@computer. org Desktop FTP

Sakai VRE Portal Demonstrator Recent Work 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Daresbury • Public demonstrator (http: //rhine. dl. ac. uk: 8080/por tal) - login -- guest: guest • Demonstrator running on Oracle hosted by NGS. • WSRP consumer developed and tested (see ). • Communication with Microsoft Exchange being tested. • Tool under development for conference paper management (upload, edit, review). • Sakai is hosting content for a number of projects and approx 200 users. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Lancaster • Lancaster Blogger Tool: – Version 1 of the blogger has been released to the Sakai community for site testing: • https: //source. sakaiproject. or g/contrib/blogger. – It can be checked out of Sakai Subversion repository. – When the blogger has been tested at enough Sakai sites it will be moved from the contrib area to the live area and will be an active part of every default Sakai installation in the world. – More information or for a trial e-mail Adrian Fish or Miguel Gonzalez at Lancaster 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Lancaster • Video Conferencing Tool: – A single tool offers audio and video conference, distributed whiteboard, share your desktop and broadcast movies. – The conferencing tool is approaching a first release stage. – Most of the features that we want are in and we are now eliminating bugs and writing developer and user documentation. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Oxford • Integrated Web. Auth with Shibboleth. • Documented the integration: – http: //wiki. oss-watch. ac. uk/Shibboleth. Install. Notes. – http: //wiki. oss-watch. ac. uk/Sakai. Vre/Shibboleth. Web. Auth. Integration. • Installed SAKAI. • Documented SAKAI configuration: – http: //wiki. oss-watch. ac. uk/Sakai. Notes. • Working on Shibboleth SAKAI integration: – http: //sakai-vre-demo. oucs. ox. ac. uk/portal. • Investigating user attributes for searching: – Allows us to make educated guesses about what kinds of things users are likely to be searching for, what kinds of tools and vocabularies they're expecting to be able to use to search. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Reading • Integrating Legacy Applications into a Portal: – Investigated whether script-based Web applications, such as PHP can be used in a J 2 EE environment, – Investigated how PHP applications can be reused as portlets, – Deployed and tested a number of PHP applications as portlets, – Will add useful tools to the Sakai Demonstrator, – Report on experiences can be found at: • http: //dsg. port. ac. uk/projects/VRE/docs. php. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Reading • Bridging Technologies: – JSR-223: • Allows Java to communicate objects with script-based languages and vice versa, • To be included with the next release of Sun JDK “Mustang”. – PHP-Java. Bridge: • Described as a XML-based network protocol, • Allows communications between Java and PHP, • Provides a suitable environment to execute PHP scripts under Apache Tomcat. – Portlet. Bridge-Portlet: • Renders Web pages into a JSR-168 portlet, • Proxies links and other external resources contained in a Web page, • Can load multiple instances, with different configurations. 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Reading 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org

Summary • All partners making good progress. • Deploying and supporting Sakai at a number of sites. • Beginning to more fully understand the needs of the VRE user community. • E-Social Science “Use Case” study underway: – Want to understand exactly what tools and services the user community need. • Keen to get user groups and the wider community engaged and gather more feedback. • Organising Portals and Portlet workshop next week at Ne. SC: – http: //www. grids. ac. uk/twiki/bin/view/EResearch/Portals. Pro gramme 2 July, 2006 mark. baker@computer. org