Fenix 3

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1. FenixEdu 3
   What changed, and why you should care
   João Carvalho
   May 2014
   

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2. What’s new in FenixEdu 3?
   

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3. Bennu 3
   Groups
   Portal
   Management/Monitoring goodies
   Bootstrap process standardisation
   Renderers 4
   Extracted Spaces, Parking and ID Cards
   Rewritten CMS
   Cleanup
   

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4. Great impact in daily
   development
   

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5. Bennu 3
   

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6. Groups
   

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7. In the beginning…
   

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8. Fenix Groups
   

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9. POJOs with logic
   

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11. Bennu 2
    

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12. Persistent Groups
    

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13. Bennu 3 Groups
    

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14. Bennu 3 Groups
    Best of both worlds
    POJO logic
    Persistent serialisation
    Feels like a Fenix Group, behaves like a Bennu Group
    POJOs on the API, persistent under the hood
    User oriented
    

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15. Portal
    

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17. Bennu Portal
    

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18. Bennu Portal
    UI Integration Framework
    Well-defined functionality model for menu rendering
    Declarative functionalities
    Access Control
    Dynamic theming support
    Both server-side and client-side injection
    Underlying frameworks need only to present the body
    Semantic URLs (Immutable)
    

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19. MenuContainer
    MenuItem
    MenuFunctionality
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    Portal
    Configuration
    

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25. Monitoring Tools
    

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26. Domain Browser
    

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29. System Info Panel
    

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31. Health checks
    

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34. Loggers
    

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36. Bootstrap
    

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41. Renderers 4
    

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42. Renderers 4
    No more web.xml servlet declarations!
    Fully compliant Portal Backend
    Removed Contexts and ContextBaseAction
    Declarative functionality detection
    Removed ContextPath injector!
    No need for tiles!
    @Forward can be configured even if tiles is not used
    

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43. Renderers 4
    Removed hacks to support Faces pages
    Checksum Rewriter Improvements
    Now only runs for Struts pages
    Now accepts empty and tags
    Removed *-mapped filters and request/response wrappers
    Improved logging across the Framework
    Removed RenderersPlugin
    EL is now enabled!
    

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44. Example
    

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45. @StrutsFunctionality(app = StudentViewApp.class, path = "time-table", titleKey = "link.my.timetable")
    @Mapping(module = "student", path = "/studentTimeTable")
    @Forwards(@Forward(name = "showTimeTable", path = “(…)/classTimeTable.jsp”))
    public class ViewStudentTimeTable extends FenixDispatchAction {
    !
    @EntryPoint
    public ActionForward prepare(ActionMapping mapping, (…)) {
    return mapping.findForward("showTimeTable");
    }
    !
    public ActionForward forwardToShowTimeTable((…)) {
    PortalLayoutInjector.skipLayoutOn(request);
    return mapping.findForward("showTimeTable");
    }
    !
    

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46. !
    @StrutsApplication(bundle = "TitlesResources", path = "student", titleKey = "private.student",
    accessGroup = “role(STUDENT)”, hint = “Student")
    @Mapping(module = "student", path = "/showStudentPortal")
    @Forwards(@Forward(name = "studentPortal", path = "/student/main_bd.jsp"))
    public class ShowStudentPortalDA extends Action {
    }
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    @Mapping(module = "student", path = "/registration",
    functionality = ViewStudentTimeTable.class)
    public class RegistrationDAForStudent extends RegistrationDA {
    }
    @StrutsApplication(path = "consult", titleKey = "consult", bundle = "StudentResources",
    accessGroup = “role(STUDENT)”, hint = "Student")
    public static class StudentViewApp {
    }
    

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47. Expression Language + JSTL
    
    
    
    
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    ${LOGGED_USER_ATTRIBUTE.person.homepage.fullPath}
    
    
    
    (…)
    
    

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48. Bennu Spring 1.0.0
    

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49. Small integration layer
    

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50. FenixEdu 3
    

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51. FenixEdu 3
    Upgrade to Bennu 3 / Renderers 4
    Tiles removal (except from public pages)
    CMS simplification
    Parking / IDCards / Spaces extraction
    Removal of many deprecated functionalities
    Improved error handling, better error messages
    

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52. JSF + Portal
    

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53. JSF + Portal
    @StrutsFunctionality(app = StudentViewApp.class, path = "calendar", titleKey = "link.title.calendar")
    @Mapping(path = "/studentCalendar", module = "student")
    public class ViewStudentCalendar extends FacesEntryPoint {
    !
    }
    /student/studentCalendar.{jsp,faces}
    
    

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54. Deletions
    The “Content” superclass and all related domain/controllers
    Support requests, Library Cards, Seminaries, TSD, Micro-Payments,
    Cron, FAQs, New Tests, DSpace, Pending Requests, XFire (SOAP),
    GWT, DomainBrowser
    Unified the several “application url” properties into a single one
    Manager/Operator duplication
    Most of the Research Portal
    Language (!)
    

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55. FenixEdu 3
    What changed, and why you should care
    João Carvalho
    May 2014
    

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