Apache Portals Web Content Application 2.x Proposal

1. Objectives
   • Reverse proxy module to be runnable in both portlet env and servlet (non-portlet) env
   • Easier and more flexible content rewriting module
   • More intuitive reverse proxy mapping configuration
   • More componentized module structure and usage of an IoC container
   • More extensible SSO integration support
   • Other possible extensibility (e.g, to allow to inject a custom ESI processing component)

2. Assumptions

• 2.0 may break backward compatibility in both code and configuration

3. Tasks

1. [APA-56] Branching apa-webcontent-1.x and use trunk for 2.x. 2. [APA-57] Maven project restructuring

   • content-rewriter : content rewriting module decoupled with portlet-api
   • reverse-proxy : reverse proxy module decoupled with portlet-api
   • portlets : portlet classes

   • war : (portlet) web application
     3. [APA-58] Change package name structure (org.apache.portals.application.webcontent2.**)
     4. [APA-59][APA-60] Designing Content Rewriter module and evaluating 3rd party solutions (e.g, htmlcleaner)
     5. [APA-61] Componentizing reverse proxy module

   • to be runnable through both simple configuration files and advanced spring assembly
     6. Consider improving reverse proxy mapping configuration
   • YAML instead of properties file??
     7. Implementing Content Rewriter module with componentization
     8. Evaluating open (de facto) SSO standards/technologies to possibly integrate
     9. Provide external SSO integration API with an example
     10. Considering other possible extensibility
     

4. Possible candidate plans

• 2.0 (Task 3.1 to 3.5)
• 2.1 (Task 3.6 to 3.7)
• 2.2 (Task 3.8 to 3.9)
• 2.3 (Task 3.10 ~ )