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Developer Information

Channel Development Information

	How To Write a uPortal Channel... ...for uPortal 1.x ...for uPortal 2.x	A guide for developing a channel for uPortal 1.x by Michael Oltz, Cornell University and uPortal 2.x by Owen Gunden, University of Virginia.
	Channel Development Strategies	by Steve Barret (Cornell University)
	CWebProxy Channel	by Andrew Draskoy (Memorial University)
	CGenericXSLT HowTo	A Description of how to create a CGenericXLST channel

uPortal Framework Information

	Javadocs uPortal 2.3.3 uPortal 2.3.2 uPortal 2.3.1 uPortal 2.3 uPortal 2.2.1 uPortal 2.2 uPortal 2.1.5 uPortal 2.1.4 uPortal 2.1.3 uPortal 2.1.2 uPortal 2.1.1 uPortal 2.1	uPortal API documentation generated by running uPortal's ant target: ant javadoc
	uPortal 1.5 Object Model	Up to date class diagrams for uPortal 1.5 with integrated Javadoc. Produced by Susan Bramhall (Yale University)
	Changing the uPortal Look and Feel	A PDF document which describes how to change the uPortal Look and feel - by Justin Tilton (IMM)
	Permission Manager Documentation Powerpoint	Documentation and a slideshow demonstrating the uPortal Permission Manager
	Security Provider Interface MS Word PDF	Documentation of the uPortal Security Provider Interface
	Composite Group Service Guide	Describes the design of the composite group service, especially configuration info. Updated for uPortal 2.3.
	Developers Guide to Groups	A group service how-to for developers, with lots of example code.
	uPortal Concurrency Services	Describes caching and locking services for portal entities.

uPortal Framework Code Standards

	Naming Conventions	Guildlines for naming java interfaces and classes in uPortal 3.x.
	Database/JDBC	Template for writing JDBC code within uPortal 2.x

Additional Information

	Accessing The uPortal Source Code	Instructions for accessing the uPortal CVS repository from Windows and Unix workstations. Instructions for setting up SSH and WinCVS.
	uPortal Documentation	An extremely useful collection of links and documentation for uPortal developers. Maintained by Zed Shaw (University of British Columbia)