WebSphere Portal V8 Development using RAD

Course: WSPRD8

Duration: 5 Days

Level: II

Course Summary

This course helps the student design, develop and implement portlet applications using RAD and the Websphere Portal V8. The topics target Business-to-Employee (B2E) enterprise applications, but most of the scenarios presented apply to Business-to-Consumer (B2C) applications as well. Examples and scenarios are included showing ways to integrate enterprise applications into an IBM WebSphere Portal environment using the WebSphere Portal APIs. Advanced functions such as cooperative portlets, national language support, action events, portlet messaging, Web Services and portlet debugging capabilities are covered.

Elements of the portlet API are described and sample code is provided. The scenarios included in this course can be used to learn about portlet programming and as a basis to develop portlet applications. Numerous scenarios describing recommended ways to develop portlets and portlet applications using the APIs will be included.

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Topics Covered In This Course

Portal Evolution

WebSphere Portal
Highlights in WebSphere Portal V8
Portlet solution patterns

Portlet API

What is a portlet?
Basic portlet terms
MVC architecture
Servlets versus portlets
What is a portlet application?
Portlet deployment
Portlet life cycle
Portlet API
Core portlet objects
Listeners
Action event handling
Core event objects
Portlet messaging
PropertyListener interface
EventPhaseListener interface
Attribute storage summary
Portlet JSPs

Portal Development

Hardware and software requirements
Development environment
Wizards
Developing portlet applications
Portlet.xml descriptor
Deploying portlets
Adding portlets to applications

A First Portlet Application

Sample scenario

Action Event Handling

Action event
Window events
Simple action String support
Sample scenario

Portlet Debugging

Overview
Sample scenario

Portlet Messaging

MessageListener
MessageEvent
DefaultPortletMessage
PortletMessage
Sample scenario
Broadcasting messages

National Language Support (NLS)

Resource bundles
Translating whole resources
NLS administration
Working with characters
NLS best practices
Sample scenario: NLS bundles
Sample scenario: translating whole resources

Accessing Web Services

Overview
A simple Web Service project
Creating a Web Services client portlet
Run the WSClientPortlet application

Accessing Back-End JDBC Databases

Creating a database connection
Sample scenario

Cooperative Portlets

Overview
Sample scenario
Hints and tips

Advanced Cooperative Portlets

Publishing properties programmatically
Portlet event handling
Broadcasting source data

Struts Portlets

Overview
Developing Struts Web applications
Migrating Struts Web applications

Portlet Preview

Overview

Sample scenario

Introduction to JavaServer Faces (JSF)

Creating a JSF portlet application

What You Can Expect

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Create portlet applications
Use RAD as the development tool.
Incorporate Struts and JavaServer Faces where appropriate.
Debug portlets.
Incorporate databases into an application.
Understand design and implementation options.
Understand the Portlet API.

Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for application developers who are familiar with Java, Web 2.0, and Web development and who are familiar with security concepts.

Recommended Prerequisites

A basic knowledge of Java technologies such as servlets, JavaBeans, EJBs, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), as well as XML applications and the terminology used in Web publishing, is assumed.

Training Style

Instructor led with 50% lecture and 50% lab.

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