WebSphere Portal Online Training

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WebSphere Portal Online Training

 

WebSphere Portal Online Training Course Content:

WebSphere Portal Server Introduction

• Portal Features
• Key Concepts
• Page Layout and Aggregation
• WebSphere Portal Products
• WebSphere Portal Architecture

Portlet Programming Basics

• Portlet Container
• Portlets Versus Servlets
• Portlet APIs
• Portlet States and Modes
• Portlet Lifecycle
• Portlet Interactions
• Request Processing
• Core Objects
• Deployment

RAD: Portal Tools

• Hardware and Software Requirements
• Installing the Portal Tools for RAD
• Portal Development Process
• Portal Test Environment Configuration
• Creating Portal and Portlet Projects
• Project Structure
• Supported APIs
• Adding Portlets
• Views and Editors that Support Portlet Development
• Adding Portlet Tags
• Portlet Deployment Descriptor Editor

Debugging Portlets

• Configuring a WebSphere Portal Test Environment
• Attaching to WebSphere Portal
• Debugging Portlets
• Common Mistakes

JSR 168 Portlet API: Part 1

• The Portlet Interface
• LifeCycle Methods
• Core API: GenericPortlet, PortletConfig, PortletContext and PortletSession
• Request Processing Objects: PortletRequest, PortletResponse and PortletURL
• Portlet Modes and States
• Action Processing

JSR 168 Portlet API: Part 2

• Portlet Preferences and Preference Validation
• User Information and User Attributes
• Listeners
• Portlet Caching
• Known Limitations
• Configuration and Deployment

JSR 168 Portlet Tag Library

• Tag Basics
• Commonly-used Portlet Tags
• Using JSTL in Portlets

JSF Basics (optional)

• JSF Architecture
• JSF Application Components
• Development Steps
• UI Component Model
• Page Development
• HTML UI Components and Faces Client Components
• Navigation Model, Navigation Rules and Navigation Cases
• Binding, Developing and Declaring Backing Beans
• Faces Request Life Cycle

JSF Portlets

• JSF Portlet Runtime
• Action Processing and Rendering
• Development Steps
• Creating JSF Portlet Projects and Portlets
• Project Structure
• Adding and Configuring JSF Portlet Components
• Using the Page Data and Client Data Views
• Editing Page Code Classes
• Accessing the Portlet API from JSF
• Value Binding
• Custom Validators
• Defining Deployment Settings and Page Navigation
• JSF Portlet Limitations

Developing Portlets with AJAX

• AJAX Overview
• The Advantages and Disadvantages of AJAX
• AJAX Request Types
• Configuring Parameters and Specifying Events
• Views that Support AJAX
• Using AJAX from a Portlet
• Handling AJAX Requests
• Making an AJAX Request

Struts Overview (optional)

• MVC and Struts
• Model Components
• View Components
• Custom Tags
• Struts HTML Tags
• Struts Bean Tags
• Struts Logic Tags
• Controller Components: ActionServlet, ActionMapping, ActionForm and Action
• Strengths and Weaknesses

Struts Portlets

• Struts Portlet Framework
• Action Processing and Rendering
• Error Processing and Response Objects
• URI/URL Construction
• Struts Tools
• Creating Struts-based Portlets
• Designing Struts Portlets using the Web Diagram
• Generating Struts Portlet Framework (SPF) Actions
• Struts Configuration

Internationalization Support

• Approaches to Internationalization
• Resource Bundles
• Supported Locales
• Accessing Resource Bundles
• JSLT Internationalization Tags
• Displaying Locale-Specific Messages
• Formatting Dates and Numbers
• Providing Translated Resources and Serving Translated Files

Cooperative Portlets

• Cooperative Portlets Framework
• Sharing Properties Between Portlets
• Property Broker
• Specifying Sources and Targets
• Describing Properties in WSDL
• Publishing Properties for a JSR 168 Portlet
• Processing Input Properties
• Portlet Wiring Tool
• Deployment Settings
• Internationalization

Portlet Services

• Portlet Services Architecture
• CredentialVaultService, ContentAccessService, PropertyBrokerService
• Consuming Services
• Implementing a Custom Portlet Service

Credential Vault Service

• The Purpose of the Credential Vault
• Credential Types
• Slots
• Vault Service API
• Accessing Credentials
• Deployment Settings
• Credential Vault Portlet
• Credential Issues

Composite Applications

• What are Composite Applications?
• Why Use Composite Applications?
• Design Process
• Templates
• Components and Applications
• Building a Template
• Parameterization
• Creating an Application
• Application Roles
• Membership

WSRP

• Web Services for Remote Portlets Overview
• Why Use WSRP?
• Remote Portlets
• WSRP4J
• WSRP Producer
• WSRP Consumer

Portal Customization

• Portal Project Wizard and Portal Project Structure
• Portal Designer
• Portal Navigation and Hierarchy
• Defining Layout
• Creating and Editing Themes nd Skins
• Editing Styles Within a Theme

Basic Portal Administration

• Hardware and Software Requirements
• Portal Components
• Controlling the Administrative Server
• Controlling the WebSphere Portal Server
• Page Navigation
• Administration Portlets
• Portal Page Administration
• Deploying Portlets
• Defining Unique Names
• Managing Themes and Skins

Portlet Best Practices

• Portlet Application Principles
• Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern
• Portlet Do’s and Don’ts
• WebSphere Guidelines
• JSP guidelines
• Data Management
• Session Usage
• Multiple Markup
• Performance

Conclusion