Portal setup wizard

• US 20040010598A1
• Filed: 02/28/2003
• Published: 01/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Fregly, Chris, Huisjen, Derek, Bales, Christopher E.
• Application Number:
  US10/377,865
• Publication Number:
  US 20040010598A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A portal can be automatically generated without requiring user coding of the portal. An interface can be provided to receive configuration information from a user. A template can be modified using the supplied configuration information to build a working portal in accordance with a user'"'"'s requirements. A portal definition can be automatically generated as well as accompanying resources including portlet definitions, java server pages, web application descriptors, and image files.

Claims

1. A method for automatically generating a user-configured portal, comprising:

receiving portal configuration information from a user through a graphical user interface;

preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information; and

generating said portal in accordance with said build file.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deploying said portal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of presenting a graphical user interface comprises presenting a wizard-style interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating said portal includes modifying a portal template in accordance with said build file.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein modifying a portal template includes modifying a portal definition.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein modifying code for a portal definition includes modifying a template portal file including XML based meta-data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of preparing a build file includes modifying a template build file in accordance with said configuration information.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving portal configuration information includes receiving at least one of a portal name, a web application with which to associate said portal, a portal description, a portal template on which to base said portal, and a resource files location for said portal.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of preparing a build file includes preparing an Ant XML build file.

10. A system for generating a user-configured portal, comprising:

a business platform;

an enterprise application running on said business platform; and

a control center in communication with said enterprise application, said control center capable of generating a portal for a web application of said enterprise application using configuration information received from a user through a graphical user interface.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said web application is part of said enterprise application.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said enterprise application is a J2EE application.

13. Computer software, capable of performing the steps:

receiving portal configuration information from a user through a graphical user interface;

preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information; and

generating said portal in accordance with said build file.

14. Computer software, comprising:

means for receiving portal configuration information from a user through a graphical user interface;

means for preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information; and

means for generating said portal in accordance with said build file.

15. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for automatically generating a user-configured portal, the computer readable medium program code having;

computer readable program code for receiving portal configuration information from a user through a graphical user interface;

readable program code for preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information; and

computer readable program code for generating said portal in accordance with said build file.

16. A computer program product for automatically generating a user-configured portal, comprising:

computer code for receiving portal configuration information from a user through a graphical user interface;

computer code for preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information; and

computer code for generating said portal in accordance with said build file.

17. A computer-readable medium, comprising:

means for receiving portal configuration information from a user through a graphical user interface;

means for preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information; and

means for generating said portal in accordance with said build file.

18. A method for receiving portal configuration information used to automatically generate a user-configured portal without requiring user coding of the portal, comprising:

presenting at least one screen to a user requesting selection of a name for said portal, a web application with which to associate said portal, a portal template on which to base said portal, and a resource files location for said portal;

receiving at least one of said name for said portal, said web application with which to associate said portal, said portal template on which to base said portal, and said resource files location for said portal from said user in response to said presenting said at least one screen; and

presenting a summary screen to said user, said summary screen including a list of files created during said generation of said portal.

19. A method for automatically generating a user-configured portal without requiring user coding of the portal, comprising:

presenting a graphical user interface for configuring a portal, said graphical user interface including at least one of;

a portal name screen, said portal name screen including at least one of a portal name field, a field for a web application to associate with said portal, and a portal description field;

a portal template screen, said portal template screen including at least one portal template on which to base said portal;

a resource files location screen, said resource files location screen including a field for a resource files location for said portal;

receiving portal configuration information from a user through said interface, said portal configuration information including at least one of a portal name, a web application to associate with said portal, a portal description, a portal template on which to base said portal, and a resource files location;

preparing a build file, said build file prepared in accordance with said configuration information;

generating said portal in accordance with said build file; and

presenting a summary screen, said summary screen including a list of files created during said generation of said portal.