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Developing portlets using Eclipse and WebSphere Portlet Factory

Alex Barbosa Coqueiro (alexbc@br.ibm.com), IT Specialist, Lotus Technical Sales Team, IBM
Alex Barbosa Coqueiro is an IT Specialist in IBM Lotus Software Group in Brazil. He has over ten years of experience in object-oriented development and is certified by Sun as an Architect (SCEA), Web Developer (SCWD) and Programmer (SCJP) for Java. His areas of expertise include WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server.
Helmar Martens, IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Worldwide Customer Support, IBM
Helmar Martens works as a Level 2 Support Engineer in Raleigh, North Carolina. Helmar has worked with WebSphere Portlet Factory since 2000. He has worked with Portlet Factory in the capacity of Quality Assurance Engineer, Developer, and currently supports this product.

Summary:  This tutorial shows you how to develop a WebSphere portlet application for IBM® WebSphere® Portal V5.1 using Eclipse and WebSphere Portlet Factory. Developers at all skill levels (including those with novice Java™, J2EE, and portlet development skills) can take advantage of the software automation technology offered by Portlet Factory to develop complex portlet applications. You see how to use WebSphere Portlet Factory to develop a portlet that retrieves and displays data from a database.

Date:  05 Jun 2006
Level:  Intermediate
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This tutorial shows you how to use WebSphere Portlet Factory's software automation technology to quickly develop complex portlet applications.

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Objectives

Specifically, you learn how to:

  • Create and configure a Portlet Factory project.
  • Create a new Portlet Factory model
  • Add specialized database Builders to the model
  • Use Builders to externalize the data
  • Deploy the portlet to the portal

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Prerequisites

You should have at least introductory level skill in Java™, J2EE, and portlet development.

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System requirements

This tutorial assumes that you have installed and configured WebSphere Portal Version 5.1x and one of the editions of WebSphere Portlet Factory 5.12.0 with Eclipse. If you want to use Rational Application Developer see the Portlet Factory product documentation. Portlet Factory is a plug-in which you install into Eclipse.

If you have the products, but have not already installed Portlet Factory, you can follow the instructions in Appendix A.

You also need a data source named jdbc/v5/sample which must be configured to connect to the Sample database that ships with DB2.

Before you start this tutorial:

  1. Test your data source and make sure that you can connect to the Sample database.
  2. Make sure that your WebSphere Portal server is up and running.

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