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Portlet Development Best Practices and Coding Guidelines

Marshall Lamb (mlamb@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, WebSphere Portal Architect, EMC
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Marshall Lamb is Chief Programmer for IBM WebSphere Portal. He works on the architectural direction of the product and oversees the implementation of the design.

Summary:  This document is a collection of best practices for portlet development using the IBM Portlet API (pre-JSR 168). It provides guidelines for designing and coding portlets for portals powered by IBM WebSphere Portal.

Date:  Apr 2006 (Published 24 Mar 2003)
Level:  Intermediate

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This document is a collection of best practices for portlet development using the IBM Portlet API (pre-JSR 168). It provides guidelines for designing and coding portlets for portals powered by IBM WebSphere Portal.


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Marshall Lamb is Chief Programmer for IBM WebSphere Portal. He works on the architectural direction of the product and oversees the implementation of the design.

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