Day number four of CAMP was the first full day of Advanced CAMP. Attendance at this session was much higher, since a large number of the Internet2 major players attended. That day we learned about a number of the major projects that are underway.
I will start with Kauli first. The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Here is a link to the project organization. The part that we were interested in was KIM (Kuali Identity Management). Some of its supported concepts include: entities, groups, roles, responsibilities, and authentication. All of the Kuali projects are written in Java, and have GUI interfaces to maintain data. It supports permission assignments for roles and groups. This will be another project that the Penn State IAM team will be looking at.
Next up was the uPortal folks. Being that I spent a large part of my life designing and implementing the Penn State Portal, I was really interested in hearing about where things were at with uPortal. Back in the day, we looked at uPortal for Penn State, but like most efforts, its just was not really ready for us to use. However I was quite impressed with where things have ended up. uPortal is still written in Java and supports JSR 168 portlets. A portlet supports, authentication, user attributes, roles access control, hosting and provisioning and skinning.
Sakai was the next topic. The presenter was Ray Davis from UCB. Sakai is an LMS that has pluggable modules. Its provides a framework, that is Java-based, open source and very extensible via plug-ins. Over 100 different aplications and services can be plugged into it. Sakai 2 was based on Tomcat and Spring. The new version Sakai 3 will use Apache Sling.
Day four had some other interesting lighting sessions that if I have time later, I may blog about. Right now, I wanted to put out some information about some of the major sessions.
I will start with Kauli first. The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Here is a link to the project organization. The part that we were interested in was KIM (Kuali Identity Management). Some of its supported concepts include: entities, groups, roles, responsibilities, and authentication. All of the Kuali projects are written in Java, and have GUI interfaces to maintain data. It supports permission assignments for roles and groups. This will be another project that the Penn State IAM team will be looking at.
Next up was the uPortal folks. Being that I spent a large part of my life designing and implementing the Penn State Portal, I was really interested in hearing about where things were at with uPortal. Back in the day, we looked at uPortal for Penn State, but like most efforts, its just was not really ready for us to use. However I was quite impressed with where things have ended up. uPortal is still written in Java and supports JSR 168 portlets. A portlet supports, authentication, user attributes, roles access control, hosting and provisioning and skinning.
Sakai was the next topic. The presenter was Ray Davis from UCB. Sakai is an LMS that has pluggable modules. Its provides a framework, that is Java-based, open source and very extensible via plug-ins. Over 100 different aplications and services can be plugged into it. Sakai 2 was based on Tomcat and Spring. The new version Sakai 3 will use Apache Sling.
Day four had some other interesting lighting sessions that if I have time later, I may blog about. Right now, I wanted to put out some information about some of the major sessions.
I'd be very interested to hear some of your candid reactions to Sakai next time we get together.