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Subject: Re: [wsrp][interfaces]: Portal Usage Scenario
Can you clarify what you mean by "Administrator"? In our world we have (at least) three levels: a) Administrator b) Page/Portal Designer c) End User Your use of Administrator seems to map closest to our (a) Administrator. [see definitions below]. When others have talked about it I have mapped to (b) Page/Portal Designer. I can see how (a) might be done out of the "usage interface". Its less obvious to me the value to do (b) outside the "usage interface". Definitions: The Administrator is responsible for registering/adding portlets to the portal. The administrator can configure portlets (change those configuration settings that are modifiable). Changes made here effect all portlet instances created here after. The Page/Portal Designer is responsible for developing the initial structure of the portal for a collection of end users. In doing so the Page/Portal Designer is capable of modifying portlet settings. Portlet settings may effect either portlet state or behaviors of a specific portlet instance (though its just as easy to imagine that this instance is a template for future instances). Commonly, these settings include the End user customization attributes allowing the Page/Portal Designer to preset defaults for the End-Users. End User is responsible for personalizing the Portal. In doing so they are capable of personalizing portlets. -Mike- Alejandro Abdelnur wrote:Tamari, Yossi wrote:Hi Thomas, I don't think that the fact the portal can set the portlet's properties means that there can be no plug-and-play. The Portlet can advertise its properties and their type (XML-Schema like) in its meta-data, and the portal can use this meta-data to automatically display a set-properties page. While this page can not be as customized as the portlet generated page, it has the advantage of creating a uniform set-properties look and feel throughout the portal. I'm just saying both options have their merits, and we should regard both. Yossi.I agree with Yossi. We should investigate/consider other alternatives. This is somehow related to an issue I've brought up in the WSRP/security conf call last week about "...separation of interfaces and roles for administrative vs. non-administrative usage. ..." I see some key problems on the approach we are heading to, where we do not have a separate administration interface from the regular usage interface. Administration and personalization are very different beasts. Using a definition from a colleague, personalization of a component is when a user customizes the behavior of the component for himself; while administration is when a user customizes the behavior of the component for one (other than her) or more users. I see personalization being done through the usage interface, as most portal frameworks -if not all- do it today. I see as a possibility to do administration of portlets through portlets, not the same portlet but a special administration portlet provided by the WSRP service. I have problems seeing administration functionality being done through the usage interface of the same portlet is to be administered. Personalization is about a given portlet instance for a given user. Administration may have to deal with roles, groups, templates, etc. In my opinion, it will be very hard to implement a portlet to do this administration unless the portlet is knowledgeable of the WSRP service configuration data model. A portlet knows about the business logic it produces presentation logic for. A portlet knows about the configuration/personalization parameters it needs. But a portlet does not necessary know how the container hosting the portlet organizes and stores the configuration or personalization parameters handled to the portlets. Another problems that I see are: * The administration interface should allow an administration tool to be built using portlets, but it must not impose additional requirements on the administration framework. * Administration should not require the administrator to put the portlet in his portal page in order to administer it. * It should be the responsibility of the WSRP service (or the portal), but not of the portlet, to manage the details of delegated administration. * Security of the usage and administration interface may be different. * It's delegated to the portlet to decide if a user can do administration or not. * The usage interface may have different scalability requirements than the administration interface. Finally, there are different specifications that address management of resources in distributed environments such as CIM, SMNP, JMX (Java specific). Also, in OASIS there is a proposal for a Management Services TC. We should investigate if any of them are suitable. Regards. Alejandro ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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