Getting started with WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1

Level: Introductory

WebSphere Portlet Factory Development Team , Technical Experts, IBM

18 Apr 2007

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Discover what the IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory can do for your portal development team. Learn key Portlet Factory concepts and how to perform primary tasks, create data services, develop portlet user interfaces, use techniques for debugging, and follow best practices for deployment. Put it all together to expedite and automate development of components in your portal interface. This 6.0.1 release describes how to use the new support for AJAX to accomplish tasks such as refreshing a single part of a page, drag and drop, creating popup windows, dynamic editing of tabular data in portlets, type-ahead, and so on. It also describes how you can use new builders for the WebSphere Portal content repository and for Workplace® Forms.

About WebSphere Portlet Factory

WebSphere Portlet Factory is a tool for rapidly building portlets on top of a service-oriented architecture, including WebSphere Portal enviornments. Developers can quickly and easily leverage their company's core assets by automatically assembling them into custom, high-value portlets. Portlets created with WebSphere Portlet Factory are dynamic, robust Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications that react automatically to change. Business users can modify them in real time to meet changing business requirements without requiring any coding, duplicating, or versioning of assets. By eliminating the need to code all of these implementations and their variations, WebSphere Portlet Factory simplifies the development, deployment, and change management processes.

This article describes the capabilities of WebSphere Portlet Factory, steps through examples of creating portlets, and tells how to use various features to accomplish specific development tasks.

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		The WebSphere Portlet Factory Team includes technical professionals who develop, enhance, support, and maintain the WebSphere Portlet Factory product.

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