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Rich Portal Edition 4.0 Released

8 April, 2009 - 14:03 — timothy

Backbase is proud to present Rich Portal 4.0, an important release of its framework for creating online personalized environments.

A Rich Portal page aggregates information and applications from various sources in a unified interface that end-users can personalize by adding content, adjusting preferences, and rearranging the layout.

A live demo of Rich Portal 4.0 is available at Rich Portal Demo. To request a trial version, please visit the Rich Portal Product Page.

Features include:

  • Portal Server
    • Runs on J2EE application servers that support Java Servlet Specification 2.3 (and higher).
    • Automatic synchronization of user preferences between client and server.
    • Personalization Manager for managing and persisting user preferences on the server.
    • Gadget registry and user preferences repository for several databases.
    • Open architecture supporting integration with various authentication providers and backend services, such as SSO.
    • Optional Proxy Transform Cache module for data aggregation from external sources.
    • Optional Data Services module for seamless communication of editable tabular data structures.
  • Portal Client
    • Support for all major browsers.
    • Layout manager with columns support.
    • Column span support.
    • Column resize.
    • Gadget events system.
    • Partial implementation of OpenSocial API.
    • Extensible preferences architecture that allows custom commonly-used behaviors to be formalized.
    • Extensible gadget actions.
    • Customizable meta-data (such as title, icons, etc) support for gadgets and gadget containers.
    • Portal and Gadget namespaces for easy client-side development.
  • Portal Admin for defining and maintaining default page configurations, including:
    • WYSIWYG editing of gadget templates
    • WYSIWYG composing of container templates and page templates
  • Gadget Development and Deployment
    • Ability to develop gadgets with any server-side technology one wishes.
    • Ability to develop and run gadgets as standalone applications or as part of a Rich Portal page.
    • Ability to deploy gadgets in separate web or application server (depending on the technology in which they have been implemented).
    • Formalized gadget definition (JavaScript and XML APIs).
    • Ability to easily configure an existing web application to run as a gadget.
  • Out-of-the-box Portal Interaction (Reference implementation)
    • Support for gadget maximization.
    • Ability to add and remove gadget containers (tabs) and gadgets.
    • Resize gadgets.
    • Move gadgets within the same or different gadget containers (tabs).
    • Minimize, maximize, and refresh gadgets.
  • Out-of-the-box Demos
    • Demo Rich Portal application that includes several demo gadgets and demonstrates various ways that Rich PortaL can be configured.