Session about IBM WebSphere Portal where we talked about Portal in general with his features and functions and Portlet development.

1. IBM WebSphere Portal
MADE FOR SUPERHEROES

2. LITTLE INFO ABOUT US
Thomas Van Driessche
@ThomasVD
WHO’S THIS GUY?
I’m the Portal & Social Engineer @ IBIZZ / Optis
 Started in 2009 (01-08)
 IBM Portal & Social Engineer
 Making IBM products more consumable
 Living between Ghent & Antwerp
 Born 28-06-1988

3. LITTLE INFO ABOUT US
Dimitri Mestdagh
@g00glen00b
WHO’S THIS GUY?
I’m a Portal Developer @ IBIZZ / Optis
 Started in 2012 (01-07)
 Portal developer
 Develop kickass portlets for customers
 Living near Antwerp
 Born 08-12-1989

4. LITTLE INFO AGENDA
 Why this session
 What is a portal
 Different features
 When do you need a portal
 Architecture
 What are portlets
 Portlet modes
 Portlet preferences
 Portlet execution phase
 Portlet vs spring
 Demo

5. LITTLE INFO WHY?
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Collaboration and Social is getting mo
Important
Give your business that personalized
of access to your information, expertis
Exceptional web experience across m
Channels

6. WebSphere Portal WHAT?
Single
Sign
On
Customiz
ation
& theming
Personaliza
tion
Search
capabilities
content
manageme
nt
portlets

7. WebSphere Portal WHAT?

8. WebSphere Portal customization
Create your own theme
 Copy static resources for your theme
 Copy static resources for your skin
 Copy dynamic resources for your
theme
 Link the static resources to the
dynamic resources in your theme
 Build an EAR file containing all your
resources

9. WebSphere Portal personalization
Different components
 Personalization browser – user
interface
 Register resource collections
 Authors rules, campaigns, and
content spots
 Maps rules into content spots
 Rules engine – executes rules
 LikeMinds Recommendations –
engine
 Resource engine – resolves the
queries produced by rules into
content pieces

10. WebSphere Portal personalization
Different types
 Simple filtering
 based on predefined groups of
site visitors
 Rules engines
 set of business rules to decide
what category of content to
show
 Collaborative filtering
 Rate a selection of products,
compare
 Compare ratings with ratings
from other visitors

11. WebSphere Portal Single Sign On
Single Sing On
 Necessary to use the real force of
the product
 Integration with other IBM products
 User repository

12. WebSphere Portal example

13. WebSphere Portal example

14. WebSphere Portal WHEN?
When will the portal be needed
 Evade an overload on information
(personalization)
 Locate information quickly
 Central place for your services and
applications
 Improve user-friendliness
 Channel relevant information
resources and many services to
different users

15. Portal architecture

16. Portlets what
What are portlets
 Portlets are components designed to
be aggregated into a portal or portals
 JSR-286 standard
 Aware of portal context
 Package in a war file

17. Portlets different modes
Display different user interface
 View – normal mode of a portal,
displayed on initial load
 Edit – customize the portlet
 Help – more information about
the portlet
 edit defaults – list of settings to
personalize default behavior
 Config – global configuration,
same for each instance of the
portlet
{Custom modes

18. Portlets preferences
Store customized information
 Personalized – single user
 Shared – portlet instance on a page
 Administrator – portlet definition

19. Portlets execution
2 phases instead of 1
 Action – user interaction
 Render– after possible action phase

20. Portlets spring
What is spring
 Popular java
framework
 Inversion of control
 Extensions (validation,
batch, …)
 Spring web MVC
 Aspect oriented
programming
Spring portlet MVC
 Adaption of web
MVC
 PortletRequest &
PortletResponse
 Bridge, mappings,
resolvers

21. demo
 Marvel portlets
 Dive in the portlet code
 Visibility Rule
 Give you an idea of how
theming is done

22. Resources
 Marvel portlet code:
 https://bitbucket.org/g00glen00b/spring-
marvel-portlet
 WebSphere Portal 8 wiki:
 http://www-
10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.
xsp?lookupName=IBM+WebSphere+Portal+
8+Product+Documentation#action=openDoc
ument&content=catcontent&ct=prodDoc
 Developer marvel:
 http://developer.marvel.com
 Twitter bootstrap:
 http://getbootstrap.com

23. Contact
Thomas Van Driessche
@ThomasVD
ps://www.linkedin.com/in/vandriesschethomas
Thomas.vandriessche@optis.be
Dimitri Mestdagh
@g00glen00b
https://www.linkedin.com/in/g00glen00b
Dimitri.Mestdagh@optis.be