Abstract:
The invention provides a method, system and computer program product for caching dynamic portal pages without changing the existing caching proxy infrastructure or the transportation protocol used by providing an advanced caching component. An advanced caching component provides the functionality that additional dynamic page specific cache information is provided as part of the response including the portal page. Each component in the portal that dynamically contributes page fragments to be aggregated to a portal page provides dynamic component specific cache information which includes component specific cache scope and expiration values. The component specific cache scope and cache expiration values are used to calculate dynamic page specific cache information resulting in a common minimum cache scope and a common minimum cache expiration values for a portal page to be aggregated. The dynamic page specific cache information ensures that the minimum cache scope is correctly chosen as contributed from the components and the minimum cache expiration does not exceed any of the component specific cache expiration values.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the field of network portals and in particular to a method and system for exchanging data between components of one or more composite applications implemented on a portal server, wherein the components are programmed independently from each other. An embodiment of the invention includes: automatically intercepting I/O data being input or output respectively to or from the components or a browser; extracting data objects from the I/O data; determining for a source component, which of the data objects match input requirements of which other potential target components; selecting matching data objects for a matching target component; and transferring the matching data objects to the matching target component.
Abstract:
The disclosed system relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal including a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. The disclosed system operates to improve Web application user navigation. During navigation by a user in the topology of the Web portal, the disclosed system automatically senses information about the navigational behaviour of the user for each page visited during said navigation. The disclosed system derives page hits and page target hits from the sensed information, wherein page hits are defined when pages are clicked on for reaching another page, and page target hits are defined when a user clicks on pages in order to perform a page-specific task or to receive some page-specific information. The disclosed system uses at least one predefined metric based on the sensed information for generating a utility ranking for the Web pages visited during the user navigation, and defines a user-specific navigation topology based on a prioritization of the ranked Web pages, wherein higher ranked Web pages are arranged in relatively higher topology levels. The disclosed system displays the user-specific topology to the user after a subsequent user log-in to the Web portal.
Abstract:
A computer system for integration of content elements into a web portal application can include a portal server module for providing a web portal application to at least one user, an aggregation module, coupled to the portal server module, for integrating content nodes representing content elements into a memory tree reflecting the web portal application, a dynamic assembly module coupled to the aggregation module, a context launch transformation module coupled to the dynamic assembly module for construction of subtrees of dynamic content nodes, and a context observer module coupled to the dynamic assembly module.
Abstract:
There is provided a method and data processing system for restructuring web content which consists of a plurality of web pages. The method comprises the steps of generating a log file which comprises a history of web pages. The history of web pages comprises all web pages that have been selected by a user from the plurality of web pages. An access frequency is determined for each of the selected web pages by use of the history of web pages. A subset of web pages is determined which comprises the web pages that have been accessed by the user with the largest access frequency. This subset is limited to a maximum number of web pages. The plurality of web pages is generally arranged in a tree structure. The tree structure is rooted at the starting webpage. The web pages that are comprised in the subset of web pages is either linked to a portlet which is directly linked to the starting webpage or the subset of web pages is determined at the point in time when the user accesses the user specific special webpage which is also directly linked to the starting webpage. The method in accordance with the invention is particularly advantageous as it allows a user to directly access a webpage within a few clicks away from the starting webpage. Thus he does not have to click through many web pages in order to arrive at his favorite web pages.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to a method and system for designing a web portal or enterprise portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing web content or enterprise content accessible via the portal. A method for modifying a given hierarchical navigation topology including nodes and edges connected between the nodes in a web application environment, in which topology a web page corresponds to a predetermined topology level and displays one or more applets, includes: providing a user interface for defining a user-specific topology, the defining including promoting a node within the topology to a higher level; demoting a node within the topology to a lower level; and moving a node within a page level; storing information for recovering a user-modified topology in a database; and displaying the user-modified topology to the user in response to the user specifying a predetermined node.
Abstract:
The disclosed system relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal including a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. The disclosed system operates to improve Web application user navigation. During navigation by a user in the topology of the Web portal, the disclosed system automatically senses information about the navigational behaviour of the user for each page visited during said navigation. The disclosed system derives page hits and page target hits from the sensed information, wherein page hits are defined when pages are clicked on for reaching another page, and page target hits are defined when a user clicks on pages in order to perform a page-specific task or to receive some page-specific information. The disclosed system uses at least one predefined metric based on the sensed information for generating a utility ranking for the Web pages visited during the user navigation, and defines a user-specific navigation topology based on a prioritization of the ranked Web pages, wherein higher ranked Web pages are arranged in relatively higher topology levels. The disclosed system displays the user-specific topology to the user after a subsequent user log-in to the Web portal.
Abstract:
A method and respective system for adapting the user-visible structure of a portal to the needs of a user, wherein the portal structure is stored in a content model, wherein a user interface component is provided for controlling the layout of the plurality of pages rendered at said portal, and wherein a model management component comprises the functionality for performing persistent content model modifications.
Abstract:
The invention provides a system and program product for caching dynamic portal pages without changing the existing caching proxy infrastructure or the transportation protocol used by providing an advanced caching component. An advanced caching component provides the functionality that additional dynamic page specific cache information is provided as part of the response including the portal page. Each component in the portal that dynamically contributes page fragments to be aggregated to a portal page provides dynamic component specific cache information which includes component specific cache scope and expiration values.
Abstract:
A predetermined business task of a composite application can be fulfilled. The composite application can include a set of components. The composite application is instantiated by a template means and a predefined collaborative context module controls the interaction of the set of components during the runtime of the composite application. A set of components fulfilling individual services on individual different server systems is leveraged by the composite application. During the instantiation of the composite application from a template, the referenced components (as types) are instantiated leading to runtime instances of these components. The interaction of the different components is controlled on individual different server systems utilizing a primary context module. The primary context module communicates with an appropriate collaborative module implemented locally on the respective set of servers, where the local context modules act as secondary context modules in relation to the primary context modules. For each of the secondary context modules, local components communicate to control the interaction of components.