Sakai OAE Deployment and Management by Whitney, Max -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Sakai OAE Deployment and Management Preface

A Note on Names Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgements

1. Why Sakai?

Putting Course Materials Online Collaboration A Protected Space The Open Source Orientation

2. Installing Sakai OAE

The Quickest Install: Web Start Binary Install

Install Java 1.6

Ubuntu Mac OS X Windows

Start the Binary Up Shut the Binary Down

Building from Source

3. A Whirlwind Tour

Choose Your Browser Create Your First Account Create Your Profile Create a Course and a Research Project

Lecture Course Online Companion Research project

Changing the Dashboard The Public Face of Sakai

4. Making the Look and Feel Your Own

Configure OAE for CSS, Property, and JavaScript Changes Modifying Labels in the User Interface Internationalization and Localization Changing the CSS: Paint It Pink Changing Drop Down Menus Categories Troubleshooting Change the Landing Page Changing the Sign Up and Error pages Rebundle OAE

5. LDAP Integration

Set Up a Mini LDAP Instance Build and Install the OAE LDAP Modules

LDAP Connection Service LDAP Authentication Service Troubleshooting LDAP Configuration Settings

Choose Your Configuration (and Configure It)

LDAP Host SSLing the Connection Bind User Performance Considerations Authorization RESTful Account Creation

Advanced Topics: Cracking Open the LDAP Authentication Plug-in Removing the Self-Service Functions

6. Building On

A Very Simple Dashboard Widget: JISC Content Browser A Group Widget: Simplified Comments A Complex Widget: Walking Time Map

7. Scaling Up

The Basics

Set Up Curl Change the Admin Password Outgoing Email Logging Create a Sakai User Unix-Style Start and Stop Scripts

Integrating with a Database Backend

Choosing Your Database Integrating with PostgreSQL Integrating with Oracle

Obtain an Oracle instance and empowered user Oracle 10: Build sparsemapcontent and nakamura with the ojdbc14.jar Oracle 11: Build nakamura with the ojdbc6.jar Configure the Oracle connection Start OAE up

Set Up a Web Server

Retrieve Apache and Install Modules Virtual Host Configuration Server Protection Service Configuration

The Preview Processor Separating Solr Starting Clean The Checklist

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