Meet the experts: Creating Web 2.0 portals using AJAX and REST with WebSphere Portal

Level: Introductory

Stephan Hesmer (stephan.hesmer@de.ibm.com), Architect, Web 2.0 Portal Development, IBM
Stefan Behl (stefan.behl@de.ibm.com), Software Engineer, Portal Development, IBM

09 May 2007

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This chat, held on May 24, 2007 and moderated by Stephan Hesmer and Stefan Behl, was about Web 2.0, related technologies such as AJAX, REST, and Dojo, and how WebSphere Portal leverages these technologies. Participants asked questions about the topic and got real-time answers from these two highly respected WebSphere Portal Architects who are deeply involved with Web 2.0 enablement of WebSphere Portal.

Audience

This chat was for developers, administrators, technical managers, and anyone else who is interested in Web 2.0, the related key technologies, and how they relate to a portal environment.

About this chat

This chat is over. See the download below for the transcript. Thanks for your participation!

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Resources

• A related presentation Web 2.0, AJAX, and REST in IBM WebSphere Portal provides an overview of the topics that were discussed in this live online chat.
  
  
• Enhancing your portal using Google Gadgets with WebSphere Portal V6.0 describes how using the IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets with WebSphere Portal V6.0 can help users and administrators easily integrate Google Gadgets into portal-based business mashups.
  
  
• Using Ajax with WebSphere Portal tells how to handle user interactions and update portions of the page, without requiring a full page refresh.
  
  
• Implementing client-side interportlet communication with Dojo and WebSphere Portal descibes how to cooperatively and dynamically update portlets in a browser, using the Dojo JavaScript toolkit to share data and events.
  
  

• Download a trial copy of WebSphere Portal Express V6.

• Participate in the discussion forum.

About the moderators

		Stephan Hesmer is an architect and the lead developer at the IBM Development Lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He works on Web 2.0 technologies for WebSphere Portal.

		Stefan Behl is a Software Engineer in the IBM Development Laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany. He joined the Workplace and Portal Foundation Development in 2003 and works in the Portal Engine team. His main areas of focus are navigational state handling and page aggregation. Stefan studied Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and holds a diploma in Computer Science.

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