Novell Teaming
Novell Teaming + Conferencing
Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming + Conferencing are two new team workspace and real-time collaboration additions to Novell's workgroup product line. These solutions will help boost end-user and team productivity and reduce overall customer costs by improving the everyday business processes people engage in to create, share, discuss and manage information. They also support a new model for technical and business innovation Novell calls “open collaboration,” which describes the open source technology development process that allows customers and partners to participate in product innovation, the actual tools that allow for customer choice, and a way of working to increase team effectiveness and organizational success.
To get your feet wet with Novell Teaming + Conferencing go here and download an evaluation copy.
A Developer's Guide to Teaming + Conferencing
Teaming + Conferencing (T+C) is based on the open source project, ICEcore. ICEcore is a set of portlets which runs on top of an open source portal called Liferay.
Liferay
Liferay is an open source enterprise portal. It is a modern and highly capable enterprise portal which uses the latest Java and Web 2.0 technologies. It also implements many open standards liked Ajax, Hibernate, Lucene and others. The portal supports full WebDAV and LDAP backend support. It includes a suite of portlets (over 60) and built-in web publishing and Content Management System (CMS). The portlets are implemented based on the JSR-168 standard.
Developers can build and deploy their own portlets to Liferay portal. The portal comes with some sample portlets and the Liferay website contains development documents.
There is also a Liferay development wiki to help you setup various development environment.
Since Novell has discontinued with Novell Extend Director portal product. Customers are recommended to take a serious look into the Liferay portal as an alternative solution. Some of the original Extend portlets have been ported or re-written to run on either Liferay or JBoss portals. They are available to download.
ICEcore
ICEcore is the first open source collaboration suite to unify team workspaces with real-time conferencing, and Novell is leveraging this project with the addition of enterprise-level features, testing, training and support to deliver Novell Teaming + Conferencing. The ICEcore project offers an alternative to proprietary software development—one that welcomes innovations from customers and partners. Contributors can submit product enhancements or customizations to the ICEcore project. Those innovations can then be shared with the open source community and incorporated into subsequent releases of Novell open collaboration products. In this way, new capabilities are developed more quickly, resulting in a more complete and cost-effective team productivity solution. Novell developers and partners are highly are highly encouraged to join the ICEcore community for future enhancement to ICEcore/T+C. Learning more about ICEcore here.
Novell Teaming 1.0.2 Web Services Guide
The Novell Teaming 1.0.2 Web Services Guide provides software developers with a set of Web Services APIs that allow them to access T+C workspaces, team members information and uploading files etc. Using Java Web Services, applications can easily exchange information back and forth with T+C. For access to the Novell Teaming 1.0.2 Web Services Guide go here.