Package oss.net.pstream

Portlet Streamer 1.0 Release

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Class Summary

PortletStream	Easy-to-use(R) interface to all the PortletStreams functionality.
PortletStreamParameters
PortletStreamParametersMap	Title:
QueryHash	An extension of a Hashmap object with some extra functionality for handling URI queries in the form of ([URL][RESOURCE][Query::?key=value&key=value...])
ResourceHelper	Creates a hashmap of PortletStreamParamterImpl classes from an XML file.
URLQueryKeyPair

Exception Summary

PortletStreamException

Exception class for PortletStream Exceptions.

Package oss.net.pstream Description

Portlet Streamer 1.0 Release

The idea behind the portlet streamer is like a cross between a proxy server and a web-based content retriever for Java based web services.? The original problem which led us to this solution was that we had decided to use Zope for our content management, and Java (inside of Weblogic server) for our application server.? In addition, we needed to access some information stored in Lotus notes and display use this information inside of our applications.? Since both Zope and Lotus Notes have web based interfaces to their data it made sence to simply pull the content directly from Zope or from Notes via their web interfaces and then embed that information inside of our JSP pages.

Section 5.4.1.1 of the J2EE specification Describes Resource Manager Connection Factory References inside of J2EE containers.? One such connection factory is the java.net.URL object.? A java.net.URL object is a connection factory for resources available over the internet for which there is a java.net.URL handler defined.? There are currently handlers for http, https, ftp and several others.? These handlers allow any connections to any of these resources to be cached by the container and accessed by container managed classes via the JNDI naming method.? The Portlet Streamer is a wrapper interface for accessing and retrieving content information from these resources.? In addition, the library provides Perl 5 regular expression compatable rewriting for virtually any connection specific information.