 | Level: Introductory Nicholas Chase (nicholas@nicholaschase.com), President, Chase and Chase, Inc.
29 Jan 2004 Lotus Domino is great for storing all sorts of information in one place, and WebSphere Portal is great for gathering information from all sorts of places. But how do you get the two of them together? One option is to directly incorporate your Domino data into your portal application using the WebSphere Portal API. This tutorial details the process for reading from, and writing to, a Domino database from within a portlet.
Prerequisites
This tutorial is for Domino developers who want to integrate their applications with WebSphere Portal. It describes the steps necessary for accessing a Domino database within a portlet using the Portal API. The tutorial assumes that you are familiar with Notes databases at a basic programming level, and that you are familiar with programming in Java. It also assumes that you have administrative access to a working WebSphere Portal server for the relevant portions of the tutorial. It does not, however, assume that you are familiar with programming or administering WebSphere Portal. You should also have some familiarity with HTML, particularly when it comes to forms, but it's not a requirement.
System requirements
To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following tools installed and running:
- Lotus Domino Server, Release 5 or later.
This tutorial was written with both R5 and R6.5. The major difference is that R5 uses Java 1.1.8, so if you use classes from the 1.2 JDK or above, they may not work with R5.
- WebSphere Portal.
In order to test the portal sections of this tutorial, you will, of course, need a portal to run it on. This tutorial was tested with WebSphere Portal 4.2 and 5.0.
- WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
Strictly speaking, you don't need Application Developer to develop for WebSphere Portal. You can do it with the appropriate JDK and a text editor, but the amount of extra work is significant. In order to run the Portal Toolkit (below), you will need to install version 5.00 of Application Developer and then upgrade to version 5.0.1 (NOT 5.1.0) using the Update Manager.
- Portal Toolkit.
Like Application Developer, the Portal Toolkit is optional in creating a portlet, but considering the number of steps and configuration files that contain potential for errors, it's definitely worth the effort to get and install this piece of software.
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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