A Flexible Framework for Engineering “My” Portals

摘要

There exist many portal servers that support the construction of “My” portals, that is, portals that allow the user to have one or more personal pages composed of a number of personalizable services. The main drawback of current portal servers is their lack of generality and adaptability. This paper presents the design of MyPersonalizer, a J2EE-based framework for engineering My portals. The framework is structured according to the Model-^sView-Controller and Layers architectural patterns, providing generic, adaptable model and controller layers that implement the typical use cases of a My portal. MyPersonalizer allows for a good separation of roles in the development team: graphical designers (without programming skills) develop the portal view by writing JSP pages, while software engineers implement service plugins and specify framework configuration.