WebSphere Portal V6.1 Application Development 1

Introduction:

In this lab course, students, who are new to WebSphere Portal, will start with the creation of portlet projects and basic portlets. From there, they will progress quickly into aspects of portlet customization and flexibility. They will also learn several methods to support inter-portlet communication, as well as data access. All of these activities will be pursued from a best practices perspective. Students will use IBM Rational Application Developer 7.5 in this course. Portlet Factory will not be used in this course.

Audience
This intermediate course is designed for new portlet application developers, integration specialists, and software architects responsible for developing solutions using IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.

Prerequisites 

• J2EE application development skills, specifically servlet and JSP development experience
• Basic knowledge of portals and WebSphere Portal acquired by completing IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Fundamentals (WP015)

Skills taught 

• Describe the structure of the WebSphere Portal container
• Create and test portlets
• Use the API core objects in a portlet
• Employ tag libraries in JSPs
• Process portlet input
• Customize portlet behavior
• Tie portlets together using event processing
• Tie portlets together using the property broker
• Build JavaServer Faces portlets
• Implement the Credential Vault Service

Course outline

Lesson 1: Exploring IBM WebSphere Portal

• Topic 1A: Examining Portal Architecture
• Topic 1B: Exploring Basic Portal Functionality

Lesson 2: Creating and Testing Portlets

• Topic 2A: Examining the Portlet Development Lifecycle
• Topic 2B: Portlet Projects and Portlets
• Topic 2C: Configuring and Testing Portlets

Lesson 3: Working with the API Core Objects

• Topic 3A: Examining Core Objects

Lesson 4: Leveraging Tag Libraries

• Topic 4A: Defining Tag Libraries
• Topic 4B: Using the Portlet Tag Library
• Topic 4C: Examining the JSP Expression Language
• Topic 4D: Working with JSTL
• Topic 4E: Internationalizing Portlet Output
• Topic 4F: JSP Best Practices

Lesson 5: Processing Portlet Input

• Topic 5A: Processing Input in the processAction Method
• Topic 5B: Examining the Relationships Between the PortletRequest and PortletResponse Objects
• Topic 5E: Using Processing Best Practices

Lesson 6: Customizing Portlet Behavior

• Topic 6A: Examining the Preferences Persistence Mechanism

Lesson 7: Building Interactive Portlets: Event Processing

• Topic 7A: Sharing Data Between Portlets

Lesson 8: Building Interactive Portlets: Using Property Broker

• Topic 8A: Sharing Data Between Portlets
• Topic 8B: Examining the WSDL File Structure
• Topic 8C: Sharing Data Best Practices

Lesson 9: Building JavaServer Faces Portlets

• Topic 9A: Examining JavaServer Faces
• Topic 9B: JSF Best Practices

Lesson 10: Implementing the Credential Vault Service

• Topic 10A: Defining a Single Sign-On Environment
• Topic 10B: Examining the Credential Vault
• Topic 10C: Accessing the Credential Vault
• Topic 10D: Single Sign-On Best Practices

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