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Simplify Your Portal Deployment: Web Space Server 10 VM Template

If you're looking for an even easier way to deploy Webspace, look no further than the recently-released Sun GlassFish Web Space Server Virtual Machine (VM) Template.  This project pulls together many of Sun's open source components, and provides a simplified, pre-configured virtual image containing GlassFish Webspace Server, GlassFish Enterprise Server, MySQL, and OpenSolaris (Just Enough), in multiple virtual image formats. 

Ready, Set, (deploy) and Go!

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Deep Dive: Sun GlassFish WebSpace Server

As part of the the WebSpace Server 10 release, Ed Ort (from java.sun.com) and I sat down to do a deep dive webcast for GlassFish WebSpace Server. Parts 1 and 2 were originally published a few weeks ago. Now, parts 3 and 4 are now available and cover development tooling, and end user social collaboration techniques. Enjoy!

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Web Space Server 10.0 Downloads

The user-oriented site webspace.dev.java.net  has had download links for a while for our Community and Milestone builds.  Now available are CDDL-based downloads of the 10.0 Final Release, which means you can download without having to have an SDN account or accept the Sun License Agreement.  The binaries are licensed under CDDL.  So easy to use!

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WSRP 2.0 FCS binary
The WSRP 2.0 FCS binary is now available for download from the OpenPortal WSRP project download page and has implemented all the WSRP 2.0 mandatory and most of the optional features. This project binary is being shipped into the below release vehicles apart from the above standalone install which the project provides as a wsrp-configurator.jar

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Content Management System in Glassfish Web Space Server 10.0

Glassfish Web Space Server comes with its own out of the box Content Management Sytem(CMS). The WebSpace CMS comprises of the following features :

1. Document Management.
2. Image Management.
3. Web Content Management.

To know more about CMS in Web Space Server, read the following article :

http://blogs.sun.com/prakashKLV/entry/content_management_system_in_glassfish

To start adding web content using CMS in Web Space Server, read the following articles :

http://blogs.sun.com/prakashKLV/entry/adding_content_to_portal_page

http://blogs.sun.com/prakashKLV/entry/structures_templates_and_web_content

Stay tuned and visit this blog for latest articles on CMS in glassfish Web Space Server.

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Web Space Server Launch Links

Web Space Server coverage links during the GlassFish Portfolio launch!

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Web Space Server - Localization

Web Space Server has out-of-box localization for 22 languages , out of which Sun provides localization support for Japanese (ja) and Simplified Chinese (zh_CN). Remaining languages are community driven.Also it has been Internationalized which allow localization in new languages which does not shipped out of box.

For further details on Localization (L10n) , Refer my personal blog entry :  Web Space Server - Localization

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Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0: Now Available!

Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 has been released today [download].  It is Sun's next-generation portal server platform. It enables businesses large and small to pull together applications and content from a variety of Web-based and internal sources and present them as a unified, customizable portal on Web browsers, kiosks, and mobile devices.  It is part of a larger Portfolio of software being released today as part of the GlassFish Portfolio.

Web Space Server started out about a year ago with a partnership with Liferay Portal to join forces to develop the core portal in the Liferay community. Web Space Server is Sun's first product based on this effort and common code base. You may still run across instances of the term Project WebSynergy - this was Sun's internal codename for the project before it was released.

Standards such as JSR 168, JSR 286, JSR 170, and WSRP 2.0 provide a solid foundation on which to build a modern web 2.0 enterprise application platform, using lightweight web-oriented architectures, and powerful developer tools to create a rich ecosystem for developers, integrators, administrators, and now users to collaborate and innovate with.

A new user-oriented site webspace.dev.java.net  has been established.  This site will house information most useful to administrators and end users of Web Space Server, including download and documentation links, community support forums, email lists, wiki content, and other useful information.

New community builds and milestones of Web Space Server will continue to be released to deliver new features and fix bugs.  This release is marked 10.0 to indicate it is a (r)evolutionary step from previous portal efforts, such as Portal Server 7.2.

The WebSyner--err--Web Space team is proud to bring you this first release, and hope you will like it as much as we do!

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Relocating WebSynergy Installations

Chris Reemts has found that relocating a WebSynergy-on-GlassFish installation is possible by following a few simple steps:

Moving a WebSynergy+GlassFish installation from one directory to another on OpenSolaris

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The following are the actions I took to move an install of the MileStone 4 build of WebSynergy on OpenSolaris.

• The installed location was: IL == /export/home/demo/Desktop/
• The new location is: NL == /export/home/demo/

To move (NOTE: It is a good idea to save a copy of any files before editing):

• Move the entire web* folder from IL to NL ? I used the file browser to do this
• Modify NL/web*/glass*/bin/asadmin
  • 1.Open in a text editor
  • 2.Line 7 contains a path --- correct this path to the new location
  • 3.Save
• Modify NL/web*/glass*/config/asenv.conf
  • 1.Almost every line has a path that you need to change to the new locations path
  • 2.Save
• Modify NL/web*/glass*/domains/domain1/config/sun-acc.xml
  • 1.You may have a domain name different from domain1
  • 2.Line 26 value is a path --- correct this path to the new location
  • 3.Save
• Modify NL/web*/glass*/domains/domain1/jbi/config/jbi-registry.xml
  • 1.You may have a domain name different from domain1
  • 2.Lines 19, 20, 25, 26, and 30 need the path corrected to the new location

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This allows, for example, one to relocate a full install from one server to another (if using GlassFish V2, the destination machine must be the same OS/architecture). Nice work Chris!

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How to do I18n and L10n in WebSynergy

Recently we have defined a common way to do I18n and L10n in WebSynergy. This process will be used for I18n/L10n during development of WebSynergy. It can also be used to develop new porlet with taking advantage of existing UI Tag lib and Language util class for I18n/L10n.

Details can be found on my personal blog entry .

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