 | Level: Intermediate Jan Engehausen (jan.engehausen@de.ibm.com), WebSphere Portal Developer, IBM
Christian Krafft (krafft@de.ibm.com), WebSphere Portal Developer, IBM
Michael Menze (michael.menze@de.ibm.com), WebSphere Portal Performance Analyst, IBM
12 Apr 2006 Get a strong understanding of how page derivation works so you can set up, administer, and optimally apply WebSphere Portal V5.1 derivation capabilities to your portal pages.
Summary
WebSphere Portal V5.1 includes versatile page building and handling capabilities. Portal pages present content and collaboration elements through portlets along with additional elements such as navigational information and branding aspects. Pages are protected through the standard WebSphere Portal access control mechanism (PAC).
You can customize WebSphere Portal pages and build hierarchies of pages to share common content. Parts of a page can be specialized and you can administer these parts individually. Your portal's users can customize pages to fit their needs and taste.
This article shows how to make the best use of these capabilities including the administrative UI, scripting, and using XML Access for the administration capabilities. It is appropriate for a broad audience. WebSphere Portal administrators learn how to set up page derivation hierarchies and they get an understanding of the resulting user experience. WebSphere Portal architects see how to use page derivation to achieve a
desired behavior. WebSphere Portal users can get a deeper understand of what the portal
does when they customize their pages.
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| Article in PDF format | 0604_engehausen-WPPageDerivation.pdf | 894 KB | FTP|HTTP |
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| Code samples | pd-samples.zip | 3 KB | FTP|HTTP |
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About the authors | | | Jan Engehausen is the technical team leader of the WebSphere Portal Engine component, located in the IBM Development Laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany. He holds a Master of Science degree from the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. He joined IBM in 2000, working on an object-oriented
scripting language before joining the Portal Development Team in late 2002. Before becoming the team leader, his major focus was the Engine's model implementation and its interfaces. |
| | | Christian Krafft works at the IBM Development Lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He enjoys computer
games, such as Linux, and in the winter he might also be snowboarding.
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Michael Menze joined IBM development in 2002 after studying with IBM for three years. He works in the Boeblingen development team for WebSphere Portal and is responsible for WebSphere Portal performance analysis, and the introduction of performance improvements. |
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