Click one of the following links to try the exercise in a cloud
environment:
People online trial: Build a simple user interface to exploit available services.
Managing Local Carbon Footprint: Learn how
to build, test, and run a simple solution that identifies
energy usage per user-specified parameters.
sMash online trial: Assess how to
build agile, web-based applications using IBM WebSphere
sMash.
Note: When you start any of the online trials in the SOA Sandbox, you will have four hours to explore the products and exercises within the Sandbox. If you exit one entry point and begin another, you have whatever time remains of the original four hours to explore successive trials. To continue working beyond the end of a four-hour session, save your materials and register to begin the trial again. You will need to refresh your desktop and other settings when the trial reopens to continue where you left off.
In this exercise, you will create a simple web-based user
interface that uses an existing external service published in
the REST style, returning data in the Atom format. For
starters, you build the user interface using WebSphere Portlet
Factory® Designer installed in Rational Software
Architect®. Then you test it by deploying it first as a
J2EE web user interface in WebSphere Application Server
Community Edition® and then as a Java™ standard
portlet in WebSphere Portal Server®. The objective of
this trial is to demonstrate how user interfaces can be
created to adapt to changing requirements.
When your trial session begins, Rational Software Architect
will open up a workspace including WebSphere Portlet Factory
Designer. On the right-hand side of your workspace, an
Eclipse™ Cheatsheet™ contains the instructions
for a short exercise: Creating a portlet to access a REST
service. A more detailed version of these instructions is
available in the SOA
Sandbox information center.
Using IBM WebSphere sMash, you develop, test and run an iWidget for tracking energy usage . The simple Web 2.0 application you create prompts the end-user with a series of questions regarding usage patterns and records the answers for later retrieval. Then you integrate it with another application via IBM Mashup Center to assemble a solution that allows the applications to share information in order to provide suitable recommendations regarding power consumption and conservation options.
Explore IBM WebSphere sMash, a fully integrated development and
execution platform that supports the building of agile,
web-based applications, within the SOA Sandbox, a cloud computing environment. To start using the trial, all you need to do is complete a simple registration process below.
The online trial experience allows you to try software products without having to install them on your
own system. This is product-level code, with all features and options enabled.
Client software
The online trial program uses the Citrix XenApp Presentation Server (formerly known as the MetaFrame Presentation Server) to provide you a connection from your workstation to the remote server running the IBM product you are evaluating. You will need to download the latest XenApp Web plugin appropriate for your operating system.
If you are installing Citrix for the first time, you will see a popup window that asks for the address of the server hosting your published application. Leave the Server Address field blank and click Next.
If you do not have the Citrix Web plugin installed when you attempt to access the online trial, you will be prompted to install it.
Supported browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer V6 or later and Mozilla Firefox V1.5 or later are
supported.
Connection speed
We recommend that you use a high-speed connection while evaluating software online. Because the session you will be using is running remotely over the Internet with unpredictable delays and latencies, you should not use your experience with the session as a guide to the performance of the tools when installed in a local environment.
Connectivity FAQs
Having problems getting connected? Check our connectivity FAQs for solutions to common problems. Or, visit our connectivity forum to submit technical questions about using online trials.
The SOA Sandbox for People includes exercises and tutorials to help you gain a better understanding of the tooling and components required to enable consistent human and process interaction and collaboration.
Get recorded demos, technical papers, architectural
guidance, and IBM Redbooks® in the
appropriate section of the
information center:
Want more? Click the Support tab for additional resources designed to help you explore this entry point.
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