© 2008 IBM Session ID: D12 Session Title: Creating custom WebSphere Portal applications that...

© 2008 IBM

Session ID: D12

Session Title: Creating custom WebSphere Portal applications that leverage data and services from IBM products and applications with WebSphere Portlet Factory

Speaker: Jonathan Booth

WebSphere Portal Technical Conference U.S. 2008

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Agenda

Portlet Factory overview

Data integration and SOA in Portlet Factory

Working with Lotus Domino

Working with tasks from WebSphere Process Server

Working with Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr

Working with services from InfoSphere MashupHub

Working with IBM Information Server

Working with Workplace Web Content Management

Additional Features of Portlet Factory

Portlet Factory roadmap

Q&A

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WebSphere Portlet Factory

Rapid development Robust integration capabilities Service-oriented development Simple deploy to WebSphere

Portal or WebSphere Application Server

Plug-in to Eclipse, IBM Rational tools, or WebSphere Integration Developer

IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory simplifies & accelerates the development, deployment, maintenance, and reuse of custom portlets and applications.

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Accelerate new deployments

Developers of all skill levels can rapidly build multi-page, complex applications without writing Java code

* Generated Method [_pageDispatcher] * Generated by builder call [bc21] */public void _pageDispatcher(WebAppAccess webAppAccess){ com.bowstreet.webapp.JSPSupport.dispatch(webAppAccess);} /** * Generated Method [getFlights_PagingGetImgName] * Generated by builder call [bc21] */public String getFlights_PagingGetImgName(WebAppAccess webAppAccess, String button, String position){ PagingAssistant asst = (PagingAssistant)webAppAccess.getVariables().getObject("getFlights_Paging"); String img = button + position; if ((button.equals("First") || button.equals("Prev")) && !asst.hasPreviousPage()) img = button + "Disabled"; if ((button.equals("Next") || button.equals("Last")) && !asst.hasNextPage()) img = button + "Disabled"; return webAppAccess.getVariables().getXmlText("getFlights_PagingButtonImages", img);

Wizard-driven Builders

…generate J2EE-compliant code automatically

“We selected Portlet Factory because it’s a tool that’s easy

to use. We like the Builder and profiling technology and it

makes it much easier for us to maintain and test our code. Portlet Factory gives us the

ability to leverage our existing resources and it’s a standards-based tool that is a natural fit

with WebSphere Portal .”

Bill Jenkins Director of IT

UNICCO

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Automation of service-oriented applications

Portlet Factory automates high-level design patterns

Domino

SAP and Siebel

Web Service

Tables

FormsCharts

- for creating services from enterprise data- for building the presentation layer

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Key concepts: builders

Capture design patterns and automate the creation of code

Have easy to use, wizard-like interfaces

Create or modify any number of application elements and artifacts Pages, schemas and

data, server-side and client-side actions and logic, back end connectivity, etc.

/** * Generated Method [employees_SelectRow] */public void employees_SelectRow(WebAppAccess webAppAccess,

Integer rowIndex, String nextAction) { int index = rowIndex.intValue(); Variables vars = webAppAccess.getVariables(); int selectedRow = index - 1; IXml data = vars.getXml("employeesGetEmployeesByDeptResults"); if (data == null) return; data = data.findElement("EmployeeList"); if (data == null) return; int row = 0; IXml child = data.getFirstChildElement(); while (child != null) { if (row == selectedRow) { vars.setXml("employees_SelectedRowData", child); break; } row++; child = child.getNextSiblingElement(); } webAppAccess.callMethod( "employeesGetEmployeeRecord" );

webAppAccess.processAction(nextAction);}

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Key concepts: models

Models are containers for aggregating builders

Developers work iteratively with builders in a model to create a custom “assembly line”

A model is typically used to create a service or presentation pages