Rapid Portlet Development with WebSphere Portlet Factory: Step-by-Step Guide for Building Your Own Portlets
- 9h 26m
- David Bowley
- IBM Press
- 2009
The Step-by-Step Guide to Building World-Class Portlet Solutions–Fast!
Portlet development traditionally has been difficult and time-consuming, requiring costly resources and specialized expertise in multiple technologies. IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory simplifies and accelerates portlet development, enabling developers to build world-class portlet solutions without in-depth knowledge of portal technology.
Expert developer David Bowley walks you through several of today’s most common portlet development scenarios, demonstrating how to create powerful, robust portlets quickly and cost-effectively. Each walkthrough contains all the step-by-step instructions, detailed guidance, fast answers, and working sample code you need to get tangible results immediately.
The best resource available on WebSphere Portlet Factory, this book reflects Bowley’s unsurpassed experience constructing large enterprise portals. Bowley covers everything from back-end integration to user interface and AJAX techniques, helping you choose the right builder tool for each task, and define high-level instructions that generate superior code artifacts. His example projects are simple enough to understand easily, but sophisticated enough to be valuable in real-world development.
This book will be indispensable to every developer who wants to succeed with WebSphere Portlet Factory, including Java, J2EE, and SOA developers at all levels of expertise, as well as Lotus Notes developers transitioning to WebSphere Portal.
About the Author
David Bowley is a consultant for e-Centric Innovations, an e-business solution provider based in Melbourne, Australia. Over the past nine years, David has worked extensively with IBM technologies and has been involved in some of Australia’s largest portal projects. He holds numerous IT certifications in areas such as WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Portlet Factory, Java, Lotus Notes, .NET, DB2, Rational, SOA, and RUP. He is a frequent contributor to various technical magazines, including The View and Lotus Advisor.
In this Book
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Introduction to WebSphere Portlet Factory
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Providing and Consuming Services
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Using Data from a Relational Data Source
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Using Domino Data
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Customizing Portlet Appearance
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Adding Basic User Interface Controls to Your Portlets
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Communicating Between Portlets
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Using Java in Portlets
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Using Web Services and Manipulating XML
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Using Charts in Portlets
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Field Validation, Formatting, and Translation
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Profiling Portlets
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Using Ajax and Dojo
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Error Handling, Logging, and Debugging Portlets
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Performance and Process Optimization
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More Techniques for Domino
