Introduction

What is this tutorial about?

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a portlet for WebSphere Portal that will access Lotus Domino using Web services. We will also set up Domino to host Web services -- in other words, we'll turn our Domino installation into a service provider.

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Software requirements

The following software is required in order to complete the steps demonstrated in this tutorial:

• Lotus Domino Server 6, Lotus Notes 6 and Domino Designer 6 and Administrator 6.
  Free trial downloads of the latest versions are available.
• WebSphere Studio V5
  We are using the Application Developer configuration of WebSphere Studio V5, but other configurations will also work.
• Portal Toolkit 4.2.5
  Download a free trial version.

You should also download this tutorial's sample code. All the sample packages, including WAR files, that we reference throughout this tutorial will be included in this zip archive.

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Who should take this tutorial?

This tutorial will be useful for developers working in an environment where Lotus Domino is deployed and Domino applications have already been developed. You may find it particularly useful if you've already set up Web services on the Domino server as outlined in the tutorial "Building Web services for Domino 6" (see Resources for a link). We will provide an example here showing you how to create a portlet for WebSphere Portal that will access an application on Domino using Web services.

This tutorial is also intended for developers looking to extend their existing portal applications with portlets that will access Domino applications that have already been developed using Web services. Refer to the tutorial titled "Turn your Lotus applications into Web services" (see Resources for a link) for more information on what the Domino server can do for you.

After completing this tutorial, you should know how to deploy a portlet that accesses the collaborative capabilities of Lotus Domino. This is contextual collaboration -- the placing of collaborative Web services in business applications where they make sense.

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Contextual collaboration
• Create a Web service in Domino
• Create a portlet
• Update web.xml and portlet.xml
• Deploying portlets
• Troubleshooting
• Wrap up
• Resources
• About the author

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