Portal Application Development using RAD v7.0

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Overview

This course utilizes a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to demonstrate the capabilities of IBM’s Portal solution. The IBM Portal Server provides a single point of interaction through the implementation of portlets and provides dynamic information, applications, processes to build Business-to-Employee (B2E), Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) portals. This seminar will illustrate the skills and knowledge you need to code robust portlet applications using RAD v7.0 and WebSphere Portal's Portlet Toolkit.

Prerequisites

Each student should be familiar with the Web concepts, HTML, XML, e-business application concepts. Also, understanding of server-side Java applications and WebSphere Studio Application Developer experience would be advantageous.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Experienced Java and Web developers that will be developing portal applications on the IBM Portal Server using RAD v6.0

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

Understand the abilities of IBM’s Portal Server

Introduction to the WebSphere Portal Solution

Overview of portal administration aspects (installing portlets, managing pages and page groups)

Use of RAD for Customizing portlets and pages components (skins, themes, and tabs)

Develop and test application portlets using the portlet Application Programming Interfaces (API)

Use the portlet tag library to build JavaServer Pages (JSPs) for servicing multiple devices and global reach

Use of the Vault Service interface of the WebSphere Portal services

Illustrate packaging and deployment of portlets

Implementing Portal Security in your applications

Develop Struts-based portlets

Demonstrate the usage of User Management Services, Content and Collaboration Services

Course Duration

4-5 Days

Course outline

Planning and Installation

Overview of Portals
- Definition
- Portlet API
- Themes and Skins
- Layouts
Portal Architecture
- Page Aggregation
- Portlet Container
- J2EE Integration
- Security
Portlet Standards
- JSR 168
- WSRP
Hardware and software requirements
WorkPlace Web Content Management
- Templates
- Web Content Manager
Personalization
Planning
Installation
Testing installation

Using Portals

Develop virtual portal
- Definition
- Virtual Portal Administrator
Illustrate Portal Server
- Architecture
- Major components
- User session persistence
- Dynamic cache
- Filtering
Basic Portal concepts
- Standards
- Portlets and J2EE
- Aggregation
  - Web Services
  - WSRP
  - AJAH
  - AJAX
- Action Handling
- Modes
Lifecycle

WebSphere Portal Customization

Managing places and pages
Customizing page layout
Adding portlets to pages
Creating new themes
Creating portal skins
Using XMLAccess
- Syntax
- Export configuration
- Import configuration
- Install themes and skins
- Install portlets
WebSphere Member Manager
- Overview
- Security and Authentication
- LDAP access
- Group caching

Working with Portlets

Installing portlets
Managing portlet applications
- Modes
- Request flow
- Persistent states
Managing individual portlets
Using JSTL
Portlet processAction
Role of doView
Java Portlet API
- Code patterns
- Best Practices
- AJAH
- AJAX
- JSF
Customizing the Portal
- Themes
- Skins
- Layout

IBM Web Content Management

Separate content and presentation
Facilitating reuse
Integration
- Personalization Server
- DB2 Content Manager
Process Definition
- Authoring
- Workflow
- Management
- Integration
- Delivery
Best Practices

Overview of Portlet Development

Overview of Portlet API
JSR 168 vs. IBM API
Portlet lifecycle
Overview and installation of Portlet Toolkit
Creating a simple portlet with Portlet Plugin
Exporting and deploying portlets to portal server
Portlet Lifecycle
Customization Levels
- Definitions
- Entities
- Windows
Portlet Data Model
Using Portlet URLs

Portlets and Web Applications

Application Components
- web.xml
- portlet.xml deployment descriptors
Understanding concrete portal applications and concrete portlets
Guidelines for portlet development

Action Event Handling

• Overview of the event model
• Listeners
• Multipart form event handling
• Multi-mode event handling

Portlet Messaging

Overview of portlet messaging
Core messaging objects
Sending and receiving messages
Inter-Portlet Communication
- Cooperative concepts
- Init method
- doView method
- processAction method

Portlets and JSF

Request lifecycle
Pagination
Action Event handling
Use of navigation
Role of internationalization
Portlet concepts applied to JSF

Using Portlet Tag Library

• Overview of Portlet tag libraries
• Using portlet tags

Using Portlets and Ajax

Role of Ajax
Project components
Use of Javascript
Ajax Servlet
Role of XMPHttpRequest
Use of Dojo
- Benefits
- Use of arrays
- Expressions
- Typed variables

WebSphere Personalization

WebSphere Personalization (PZN)
Personalization artifacts
Using rules-based personalization
- Rules editor
- Using rules language
Personalization types
- User
- Rules-based
- Collaborative filtering
Role of Personalization Server
WebSphere Personalization Process
- Identify business requirements
- User and Content models
- Create User and Content resources
- Page layout
- Writing scriptlet code
- Developing business rules
- Mapping rules

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