Classified ads in Luminis IV
I have been asked to look into ways of building a classified section for our Luminis IV environment. I am aware that there was a Classified channel that could be used in Luminis III, but I cannot find any information about using one in IV.
I'm looking for ideas/information on how other schools have gone about this task in IV? Obviously a group could be setup, which may be the way we go about it. My other initial thought is using a PHP script to update an external page that we could render into a channel, but I wanted to gather some information from other schools that may have already created a channel for this purpose.
Thanks in advance
Jonathan O'Leary
joleary@harford.edu
Harford Community College.
We have a hacked up version
We have a hacked up version of the uportal classifieds running in 3.3.3 but it does not work in Lum IV.
We are looking at creating a cold fusion application, and having a SSO to it in our portal.
Jack
we have a hacked up version
At the moment we are pushing the limits of our understanding with
Classifieds, but there have been posts about successfully migrating Classifieds to LP IV. Try doing a search on Lumdev.
Lots of people use variations on classifeds
Derek
Also interested in Classifieds for V4
Apr. 28, 2008. I have just about given up on the old Iowa State classifieds app on Luminis 4. We had it almost working on V3.3, but it won't deploy on V4. The big problem appears to be with Java 5 requiring data typing discipline not present in the older code. We did some experimenting with Geodesic Systems freeware version PHP application as an alternative, but the project is on the back burner right now.
May 2, 2008. Wait - I've got hope again for the iastate app. I figured out that the messages about deprecated and risky code are just warnings and found the real problem was my own clumsiness in handling the jarpropertyresourcebundle and the basemediaurl code that I had to modify. It's compiled - now I just have to figure out the new version IV way of retrieving permissions and e-mail addresses. Anyone want to collaborate? Bill Ramsay (bill_ramsay@berea.edu)
IAState Classifieds channel working on L***** IV !
Sept. 23, 2008. Woohoo! I finally have a working Classifieds channel for L**** IV. I took the UPortal version 2 channel and the SunGard version 1 channel and merged the code so that the resulting included the Apache logging mechanism from UPortal 2 and the base media URL coding from the SunGard version. I also moved the jarPropertyResourceBundle module down into the channel folder so it would relocate and compile with the other objects. The last step was to get the iPerson e-mail address retrieval properly coded for V4 (the information from bwalker in lumdev posting 1555 was really helpful there).
IMultithreadedCacheable to ICacheable??
Glad to hear that you have it working for Luminis 4. Would you mind share your code here? Did you change the CClassified class to implement ICacheable instead of IMultithreadedCacheable?
I know that IMultithreadedCacheable interface has been deprecated in Luminis 4 (uPortal 2.5) and would like to know how it is going affect the performance of this channel when under load.
Thanks
Scott
Classifieds & IMultithreadedCacheable interface
I did not make that change and I would like to learn more about what that might mean. Would a lot of other code need to be modified beyond the two references in CClassifieds.java? I have not taken time to learn how to post documents on lumdev, but I'd be glad to send you the .car file directly. E-mail me at bill_ramsay@berea.edu.