This course utilizes a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to demonstrate the capabilities of IBM’s Portal solution. The IBM Portal Server provides a single point of interaction through the implementation of portlets and provides dynamic information, applications, and processes to build Business-to-Employee (B2E), Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) portals. This seminar will illustrate the skills and knowledge you need to code robust portlet applications using WebSphere Studio Application Developer and WebSphere Portal's Portlet Toolkit.

Prerequisites

Each student should be familiar with the Web concepts, HTML, XML, e-business application concepts, Web servers, and IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5. Also, understanding of server-side Java applications and WebSphere Studio Application Developer experience.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Experienced Java and Web developers that will be developing portal applications on the IBM Portal Server

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Understand the abilities of IBM’s Portal Server
• Illustrate the role of the WebSphere Portal Solution
• Introduction to portal administration aspects (installing portlets, managing pages and page groups)
• Use of WSAD for Customizing portlets and pages components (skins, themes, and tabs)
• Develop and test application portlets using the portlet Application Programming Interfaces (API)
• Use the portlet tag library to build JavaServer Pages (JSPs) for servicing multiple devices and global reach
• Demonstrate Portlet events and messaging
• Use of the Vault Service interface of the WebSphere Portal services
• Demonstrate the usage of User Management Services, Content and Collaboration Services
• Depict Struts-based Portlet development