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This article discusses six key areas which must be considered when implementing a federated portal, comprised of portals running under IBM® WebSphere® Portal and portals running under Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint™ Services and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Portal Server. It provides options and recommendations for each area and provides sample code.
Portal interoperability involves more than enabling portlets from one portal to run in another portal. The differences between the IBM and Microsoft portal frameworks, and between the J2EE and .NET programming models, make it impractical to embed SharePoint Web Parts within a portal running under WebSphere Portal. LIkewise, you cannot merely run portlets within a SharePoint portal, even if the portlets are written to the Java standards. This article provides concrete alternatives for dealing with this complex task.
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Tim Choo is a Software Engineer with a Lotus development team in Westford MA. Tim was previously a senior consultant in the Strategy and Change practice of IBM Business Consulting Services where he advised financial services clients on technology strategy issues. Tim came to IBM from Mainspring where he was a technical architect. Tim also spent several years building solutions with Lotus' Architected Solutions Group and developing solutions for customers as a consultant with Lotus Professional Services Asia-Pacific.
Mark Moore is a Senior Software Engineer with a Lotus development team. He came to the team from the OnDemand Workplaces practice of IBM's Business Consulting Services where he spent the last two years helping clients with the IT-side of portal strategy. Mark came to IBM from KPMG, International, where he was Chief Architect for the firm's global knowledge management initiative, KWorld, which served 80,000 employees in 40 countries. He has spent the last nine years designing, developing, and deploying enterprise KM and collaborative systems on a variety of platforms.
