Applying User-Generated Deployment Events to a Grouping of Deployable Portlets

• US 20110055193A1
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wilcox, Lauren G., Lauridsen, Christina K.
• Granted Patent: US 8,495,048 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/707
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A mechanism is provided for applying individual user-generated deployment events to a grouping of bookmarked deployable Web archive files. The mechanism allows a user of a bookmarking service for deployable Web archive files to group bookmarked Web archive files according to criteria, such as tag names, and to perform actions, such as a deploy action, to all members of the group in a single user-generated event. The mechanism allows a user to perform a search of portlets meeting specified criteria. The user may then select portlets from the result set for deployment as a group. The mechanism also allows a user of the bookmarking service to tag pre-configured portlet groupings, or portal tabs. Users may choose to deploy not just a tagged portlet, but an entire tab of portlets in a single deployment action. The mechanism may also allow a user to deploy a collection of portal tabs.

Claims

1. A method, in a data processing system, for applying user generated deployment events to groupings of portlets, the method comprising:

receiving, from a requesting user, search criteria to be applied to a set of stored portlets, wherein each portlet within the set of stored portlets is a pluggable user interface software component that is managed and displayed in a Web portal;

identifying one or more portlets from the set of stored portlets satisfying the search criteria; and

deploying the one or more portlets in one or more portal tabs within a Web portal of the requesting user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the search criteria comprise one or more tag keywords.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying one or more portlets comprises:

generating a result set of portlets, wherein the result set of portlets comprises a plurality of portlets from the set of stored portlets that satisfy the search criteria;

returning the result set of portlets to the requesting user; and

receiving a selection of a subset of the result set of portlets from the requesting user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying one or more portlets comprises:

identifying one or more portlet groups that satisfy the search query.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein deploying the one or more portlets comprises:

deploying each of the one or more portlet groups as a portal tab in the Web portal of the requesting user.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more tag keywords to be assigned to the portal tab; and

storing the one or more tag keywords in association with the portal tab.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein storing the one or more tag keywords in association with the portal tab comprises:

generating a group index with reference to data structures containing a portal grouping identifier, the one or more tag keywords, and references to the one or more portlets; and

storing the reference to the data structures as metadata in association with the group index.

8. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program recorded thereon, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

receive, from a requesting user, search criteria to be applied to a set of stored portlets, wherein each portlet within the set of stored portlets is a pluggable user interface software component that is managed and displayed in a Web portal;

identify one or more portlets from the set of stored portlets satisfying the search criteria; and

deploy the one or more portlets in one or more portal tabs within a Web portal of the requesting user.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the search criteria comprise one or more tag keywords.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein identifying one or more portlets comprises:

generating a result set of portlets, wherein the result set of portlets comprises a plurality of portlets from the set of stored portlets that satisfy the search criteria;

returning the result set of portlets to the requesting user; and

receiving a selection of a subset of the result set of portlets from the requesting user.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein identifying one or more portlets comprises:

identifying one or more portlet groups that satisfy the search query.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein deploying the one or more portlets comprises:

deploying each of the one or more portlet groups as a portal tab in the Web portal of the requesting user.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer readable program further causes the computing device to:

receive one or more tag keywords to be assigned to the portal tab; and

store the one or more tag keywords in association with the portal tab.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein storing the one or more tag keywords in association with the portal tab comprises:

generating a group index with reference to data structures containing a portal grouping identifier, the one or more tag keywords, and references to the one or more portlets; and

storing the reference to the data structures as metadata in association with the group index.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program is stored in a computer readable storage medium in a data processing system and wherein the computer readable program was downloaded over a network from a remote data processing system.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer readable program is stored in a computer readable storage medium in a server data processing system and wherein the computer readable program is downloaded over a network to a remote data processing system for use in a computer readable storage medium with the remote system.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

a Web application server;

a Web portal component; and

a bookmarking service component,

wherein the Web application server is configured to receive, from a requesting user, search criteria to be applied to a set of stored portlets, wherein each portlet within the set of stored portlets is a pluggable user interface software component that is managed and displayed in a Web portal;

wherein the bookmarking service component is configured to identify one or more portlets from the set of stored portlets satisfying the search criteria; and

wherein the Web portal component is configured to deploy the one or more portlets in one or more portal tabs within a Web portal of the requesting user.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein identifying one or more portlets comprises generating a result set of portlets, wherein the result set of portlets comprises a plurality of portlets from the set of stored portlets that satisfy the search criteria,

wherein the Web application server is configured to return the result set of portlets to the requesting user and receiving a selection of a subset of the result set of portlets from the requesting user.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein identifying one or more portlets comprises identifying one or more portlet groups that satisfy the search query, wherein the Web portal component is configured to deploy each of the one or more portlet groups as a portal tab in the Web portal of the requesting user.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the bookmarking service component is further configured to:

receive one or more tag keywords to be assigned to the portal tab; and

store the one or more tag keywords in association with the portal tab.