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Building and deploying CAS with the ClearPass extension

By Andrew Petro
Tags: CAS, ClearPass
June 12, 2009
In this post I describe step by step how to build and deploy the ClearPass extended version of CAS with support for exposing the end user's password to authorized applications.

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After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the JA-SIG uPortal project. Andrew serves as the release engineer for uPortal 2.6.x (previously for 2.5.x) and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In fall 2005, Andrew relocated to Wisconsin and continued to work for Yale on a contract basis while starting part time with Unicon and in spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead on Academus and on Cooperative Support for uPortal.

USER_IDs, EIDs, Providers, Oh My!

By Dan McCallum
April 17, 2009

I received feedback that the following notes on Sakai's LDAP provider behavior would be worthwhile archiving more visibly than on the Sakai dev list, so I'm reprinting them here. See here for the context of the entire thread.

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"Enterprise Portals: Reborn and Transformed by the Social Web"

By John Lewis
Tags: portal
April 9, 2009

EContent Magazine has published an interesting article "Enterprise Portals: Reborn and Transformed by the Social Web". Provides some good insights into what various people think is the future for enterprise portals.

Note: The article is not directly accessible to the public, but the link above is to a reprint on the Sapient web site.

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John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

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Video: Shibboleth Guided Tour

By John Lewis
April 3, 2009

Please enjoy this video from a recent webinar in which I provide a guided tour of Shibboleth.

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John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

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Cernunnos 1.1.0 Released: Better Resource Handling, Better Integration with Maven & Spring

By Andrew Wills
Tags: Cernunnos
March 27, 2009

The newest release of Cernunnos -- version 1.1.0 -- is here.

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Congratulations to Eric Dalquist and uPortal on the release of uPortal 3.1.0

By Andrew Petro
March 24, 2009

Re-posting in this blog Eric Dalquist's announcement of the release of uPortal 3.1.0 general audience release. I'd especially like to thank and congratulate Uniconers Jen Bourey, Gary Thompson, and Drew Wills for their contributions to this release.

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After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the JA-SIG uPortal project. Andrew serves as the release engineer for uPortal 2.6.x (previously for 2.5.x) and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In fall 2005, Andrew relocated to Wisconsin and continued to work for Yale on a contract basis while starting part time with Unicon and in spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead on Academus and on Cooperative Support for uPortal.

Developing Light-weight AJAX Utility Portlets for uPortal

By Jennifer Bourey
March 17, 2009

Discussion in the uPortal IRC channel recently centered on the potential for developing a set of general utility portlets to be distributed with uPortal. Such portlets might include things like search and maps, a calculator, a dictionary, and other small, useful components.

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Books About Java

By Andrew Petro
March 17, 2009

Someone recently asked me for book recommendations for getting started with Java. In this blog post I share a few book recommendations.

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After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the JA-SIG uPortal project. Andrew serves as the release engineer for uPortal 2.6.x (previously for 2.5.x) and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In fall 2005, Andrew relocated to Wisconsin and continued to work for Yale on a contract basis while starting part time with Unicon and in spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead on Academus and on Cooperative Support for uPortal.

Carl Jacobson Named CIO at U Delaware

By John Lewis
March 16, 2009

Great news! Carl Jacobson has been named the CIO at U Delaware. Carl was the prime mover behind uPortal and obtained the initial Mellon grant for its development. He co-founded Jasig and was a founding board member of Sakai. Congratulations, Carl!

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John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

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What Google Gets Out Of The "Summer of Code"

By John Lewis
March 12, 2009

I am excited that Jasig is preparing applications for the Google Summer of Code this year. I think this will be a great opportunity to get some new work done on uPortal and CAS and to bring some new people into the developer community.

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John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is a 16 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides JSR 168 support in the Spring Framework. He is also active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai.

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