Course Overview: This comprehensive course combines informative lectures and discussions with relevant activities and labs so that you can administer WebSphere Portal. This course is designed for users who are new to developing applications for IBM WebSphere Portal Server. It describes the fundamentals of designing and creating portlets and how to put the new features to use including managed pages. In addition, you have the opportunity to apply best coding practices throughout the course, developing robust portlet applications and portal themes by using Dojo, asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), and client-side aggregation. This course makes extensive use of Rational Application Developer to develop and test JSR (Java Portlet Specification) 286-compliant portlets.
Course Content:
Overview of IBM Websphere portal server working with portlet concepts performing basic tasks creating, deploying and testing a portlet working with the core api working with core portlet objects using tag libraries in portlet applications processing portlet input processing client input requests Customizing portlet behavior Working with client side aggregation Interactive portlets Serving resources using dojo and Ajax in portal development Overview of portlet services Creating a custom portlet service Overview of portlet filters Personalization Creating a portal brand (themes and skins) Basic Administration -- deploying the portlet -- creating the pages -- applying the themes to pages -- applying the skings to portlets -- creating wires for ipc -- assigning users/groups to the portlet and pages -- stop and start the portal server