TY - CONF AU - Benedyczak, Krzysztof AU - Bała, Piotr AU - Borcz, Marcelina AU - Huber, Valentina AU - Kluszczynski, Rafał AU - Petrova, Mariya AU - Piernik, Piotr AU - Schuller, Bernd TI - Fostering the Adoption of UNICORE Portal VL - 26 CY - Jülich PB - Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag M1 - FZJ-2014-07100 SN - 978-3-95806-004-3 T2 - IAS Series SP - 15 - 22 PY - 2014 AB - The UNICORE Portal is a new offering in the UNICORE client side tools portfolio. In this paper we are evaluating the current architecture of the Portal and its connection to the corresponding UNICORE middleware components from the perspective of domain-specific interfaces integration. The paper discusses the need for a low-level Portal API, which should serve as a convenient foundation of Portal extensions. The motivation of the developments is built on top of requirements coming from three use cases, which are introduced in the paper. The proposed API is compared to the GridBeans API, used for the standalone graphical clients. Additionally an analysis of the possible improvements in the Portal core is given, together with the description of the benefits of refactoring. T2 - UNICORE Summit 2014 CY - 24 Jun 2014 - 24 Jun 2014, Leipzig (Germany) Y2 - 24 Jun 2014 - 24 Jun 2014 M2 - Leipzig, Germany LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)7 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/185675 ER -