Jana Polgar

Jana Polgar. Prior joining NextDigital as a senior consultant, Jana worked as a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where she was teaching subjects focusing on web services, SOA and portal design and implementation in postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Information Technology. Her research interests include web services, SOA and portal applications. She has also extensive industry experience in various roles ranging from software development to management and consulting positions. She holds master degree in Electrical Engineering from VUT Brno (Czech Republic) and PhD from RMIT Melbourne.

Publications

Web Portal Design, Implementation, Integration, and Optimization

Web Portal Design, Implementation, Integration, and Optimization discusses the challenges faced in building web services and integrating applications in order to reach the...

Enhancing Enterprise and Service-Oriented Architectures with Advanced Web Portal Technologies

Service-oriented architectures are of vital importance to enterprises maintaining order and service reputation with stakeholders, and by utilizing the latest technologies...

Do You Need a Content Management System?

Today the Web is used as a means to allow people and business to use services, get information and conduct transactions. Businesses today depend upon their visibility in their...

Using WSRP 2.0 with JSR 168 and 286 Portlets

WSRP—Web Services for Remote Portlets—specification builds on current standard technologies, such as WSDL (Web Services Definition Language), UDDI (Universal Description...

Use of Web Analytics in Portals

Web analytics are typically branded as a tool for measuring website traffic. They can be equally used as a tool for business research, results of advertising campaigns, and...

New Generation of Portal Software and Engineering: Emerging Technologies

Portals and Service Oriented Architecture in general are important areas of study given the growing complexity of modern technology systems. A Portal provides a means of...

Building Portal Applications

Software development methodology refers to a standardised, documented methodology which has been used before on similar projects or one which is used habitually within an...

Toward Introducing Semantic Capabilities for WSRP

The emergence of web services technology has introduced a problem: how can we ensure that requests are successfully matched with advertisements when consumers and producers may...

User Facing Web Services in Portals

In SOA framework, Portal applications aggregate and render information from multiple sources in easily consumable format to the end users. Web services seem to dominate the...

User Facing Web Services in Portals

In SOA framework, Portal applications aggregate and render information from multiple sources in easily consumable format to the end users. Web services seem to dominate the...

Do You Need Content Management System?

Today the Web is used as a means to allow people and business to use services, get information and conduct transactions. Businesses today depend upon their visibility in their...

Using WSRP 2.0 with JSR 168 and 286 Portlets

WSRP—Web Services for Remote Portlets—specification builds on current standard technologies, such as WSDL (Web Services Definition Language), UDDI (Universal Description...

Building Portal Applications

Software development methodology refers to a standardised, documented methodology which has been used before on similar projects or one which is used habitually within an...

Do You Need Content Management System?

Today the Web is used as a means to allow people and business to use services, get information and conduct transactions. Businesses today depend upon their visibility in their...

User Facing Web Services in Portals

In SOA framework, Portal applications aggregate and render information from multiple sources in easily consumable format to the end users. Web services seem to dominate the...

Use of Web Analytics in Portals

Web analytics are typically branded as a tool for measuring website traffic. They can be equally used as a tool for business research, results of advertising campaigns, and...

Building Portal Applications

Software development methodology refers to a standardised, documented methodology which has been used before on similar projects or one which is used habitually within an...

Toward Introducing Semantic Capabilities for WSRP

The emergence of web services technology has introduced a problem: how can we ensure that requests are successfully matched with advertisements when consumers and producers may...

User Facing Web Services in Portals

In SOA framework, Portal applications aggregate and render information from multiple sources in easily consumable format to the end users. Web services seem to dominate the...

Designing Agents with Negotiation Capabilities

Agents are viewed as the next significant software abstraction, and it is expected they will become as ubiquitous as graphical user interfaces are today. Agents are specialized...

Open Source ESB in Action

The author provides a book review of Open Source ESB in Action. This book as one of a few sources of information for IT architects as well as integration developers who wish to...

Management Issues in Portlet Development

Software development methodology refers to a standardised, documented methodology which has been used before on similar projects or one which is used habitually within an choice...

Presentation Oriented Web Services

Web services introduced the means for integrating and sharing business processes via the Internet. WSRP’s (WSRP specification version 1, 2003) goal is to extend the integration...

WSRP Relationship to UDDI

In most cases, portlets are built to be deployed by local portals. This is not practical if the organisation wishes to publish their Web services and expects other business...

WSRP Specification and Alignment

The WSRP specification (WSRP specification version 1, 2003) requires that every producer implement two required interfaces, and allows optional implementation of two others: 1....

Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals

Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, gives information to the history behind grid technology evolution, and...

Introduction

To create an initial impression of what a portal is, we can compare a portal page to the colonial window pictured on Figure 3. This window can represent a Web page, with several...

The Foundations of XML and WSDL

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language (http://www.w3.org/XML/), and it has been adopted by industry for exchanging data in a platform, language, and protocol independent...

Protocols

Today’s enterprises increasingly rely on the Web to support their operations, global business, and integration of their business processes with those of their suppliers...

Web Services

Web services aim to provide application-to-application interoperability. Messages are exchanged between two parties called service provider and service requestor. The messages...

Servlets

Servlets are server side programs that respond to requests from browsers. They run in the Web environment. Portal technology grew from the servlets, and each portal page ends up...

Java Server Pages (JSP)

Good Web application design always tries to separate business objects from controls and the presentation. The benefit of using Java Server Pages (JSP) is the ability to separate...

Web Service Design Issues

Web Services are gaining in popularity because of the benefits they provide. One of the major benefits is their support for interoperability in a heterogeneous environment, which...

Portals

In the following sections, the concepts of portals and portlets, but not the entire portlet specification, are explained. First, some fundamental aspects of portlet development...

Portal Development Framework

To understand portal applications and the principles of their development, we need to distinguish between a portal and a portlet. A portal is a framework that lets you plug in...

Accessing Remote Locations

Most of today’s portal implementations provide a model that facilitates plugging various components (portlets) into the portal infrastructure. Portlets run locally on the portal...

Portlet Authentication and SSO

In this section, we will introduce a few important details relevant to the authentication process and Single Sign On (SSO) implementation. The SSO is a popular feature that was...

Struts Framework

When Java servlets were first invented, many developers quickly realized that they were faster and more powerful than the standard CGI. They were also portable and extensible....

Writing Portlets: A Quick Lesson for IT Managers

This section is intended for IT managers who need to understand the basics of developing portlets. We will take you briefly through the development cycle of a portlet: from...

Brief Overview Portal Application Platforms

Portal engines come in several implementations. We do not attempt to discuss them all in this book. We provide a high level overview of three architectures: WebSphere Portal for...

Installation and Maintenance Costs

The decision regarding which Web server, portal engine, or particular technology to use is never an independent, straightforward process. Typically, the manufacturers’...

Standards Overview

In this section, we would like to offer critical and informal views on the standards relevant to building portal solutions, as well as the variations in their implementation by...

Managing Portals

Can a development manager with experience in other Web technologies easily become a successful portal development manager? Is there anything specific that a portal development...

Grids

This section describes some of the more important goals of a Grid system. The Grid carries with it many ideas central to other sharing technologies, such as the network operating...

Designing Agents with Negotiation Capabilities

Agents are viewed as the next significant software abstraction, and it is expected they will become as ubiquitous as graphical user interfaces are today. Agents are specialized...

Object-Oriented Software Metrics

Software measurement is considered to be an efficient means to monitor the quality of software projects, predict cost of maintenance, assess reusability of components, provide...