Bea Systems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

Timothy Breeden

Daryl B Olander

Christopher Jolley

Edward K O'Neil

Richard Feit

Jason Howes

Brodi Beartusk

Sathyanarayana Giridhar

Douglas Dew

Thomas A Cook

Skip Sauls

Purushotham Babu Naidu

Robert Bergman

Gregory P Smith

Scott Musson

Chris Jolley

Shane Pearson

Fernand Galiana

Jalpesh Patadia

Manish Devgan

Thomas Carl Stamm

Rodney McCauley

Philip B Griffin

Kevin Blair Frender

Charles Paclat

John Haut

Steven Willcox

Doug Dew

Tom Stamm

Michel Bisson

A system and method for providing collaboration communities in a computer portal environment. The system comprises a community portal tool for creating community portals, portal applications, or portal web applications. In one embodiment, the portal can be one of a number of enterprise applications on server software. The portal can include a community context that can have an indication of members of the community. The indication can be, for example, a list of the members or pointer to a list of members. The community portal can be constructed from portal elements and the community context. The community portal tool can also be used to select a community portal template from a portal component library. The template can include standard elements from the construction of a community portal. A standardized look and feel, layout, and components such as a calendars can be in a community template.

System and method for providing collaboration communities in a computer portal environment

A system and method comprising, sharing information between a plurality of participants in a collaboration; and exposing a set of functions that enable a participant in the plurality of participants to share the information, the set of functions comprising: first functions to facilitate establishing a context in which to interact with the plurality of participants; and second functions to facilitate storing and retrieving values from a shared state, wherein the shared state is accessible within the context.

Systems and methods for collaboration shared state management

A method for rendering a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising providing for the representation of the GUI as a set of objects wherein the objects are organized in a logical hierarchy, associating a theme with a first object in the set of objects, rendering the first object according to the theme, rendering any descendents of the first object according to the theme, wherein any descendents of the first object can override the theme, and wherein one of the set of objects can communicate with another of the set of objects.

Method for utilizing look and feel in a graphical user interface

A method for accepting a request, comprising mapping the request to a control tree factory, generating a control tree from the factory based on the request wherein the control tree can include at least one control, advancing the control tree through at least one lifecycle stage based on the request, generating a response wherein the response can be used to render at least a portion of a graphical user interface (GUI), and wherein the at least one control can represent a graphical element of the GUI.

Control-based graphical user interface framework

Embodiments provide mechanisms and methods for providing disconnectible applications capable of executing at least semi-autonomously, i.e., without needing constant contact with a server, on a client substantially independent of server connectivity. The ability of a disconnectible application to execute on a client substantially independent of server connectivity can enable enhanced flexibility in organizing applications to build data processing systems.

Disconnectible applications

A method for navigating a graphical user interface (GUI) having at least one page, comprising providing a first booklet, wherein user interaction with the first booklet can cause the GUI to navigate to a new page; providing a request based on user interaction with the first booklet; mapping the request to a control tree factory; generating a control tree from the factory based on the request wherein the control tree includes a booklet control corresponding to the first booklet; advancing the control tree through at least one lifecycle stage based on the request; and generating a response wherein the response can be used to render the new page.

Graphical user interface navigation method

A system and method for building a representation of a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising generating a class, generating a first representation of the GUI, wherein the class can produce a second representation GUI based on the first representation, generating a second representation of the GUI from the class, wherein the second representation includes at least one control, and wherein the first representation can include at least one of hierarchical relationships among controls, control properties, and control event information.

System and method for dynamically generating a graphical user interface

There are provided mechanisms and methods for mapping information from disparate data sources into a single user profile. Embodiments can provide the capability to work with profiles for users as well as for other entities. These external data sources can include, without limitation: relational databases, file system and Java classes, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers and other network accessible sources. These mechanisms and methods can enable creating a single user profile from attributes residing in disparate data stores. The ability of embodiments to provide mechanisms and methods for creating a single user profile from attributes residing in disparate data stores can enable easier configuration of profiles, without requiring users to write code to perform the mapping.

System and method for improved managing of profiles in a web portal environment

A portal includes an original configuration and extension. The original configuration can include resources and a portal file identifying the resources. The extension modifies the original portal to form an extended portal without changing the original configuration.

Extending an original configuration of a portal using portal extensions

A system and method for describing a portal page, comprising, defining a placeholder on a template, associating at least one portlet with the placeholder, and wherein the template can be customized for least one of a group and a user.

System and method for portal page layout

A design/compile-time, and runtime software development system that allows developers of varying levels of expertise to build enterprise applications with dynamic user interfaces. The system allows for building dynamic web pages which connect to data sources on the back-end, and which may be integrated into a portal on the front end. In one embodiment the system comprises an IDE having a design-time environment that allows the design of a portal application, said design-time environment including a Java Server Page design editor component, and a webflow design editor component; a run-time environment for execution on a server and that runs said portal application, said run-time environment including a control container and lifecycle driver component, a control factory component, and an application flow and state management component; wherein the system can be switched from the design-time environment to the run-time environment, to automatically effectuate changes from one environment to the other.

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Timothy Breeden