WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1: Developer Fundamentals

Course Overview

This instructor-led course is designed for corporate developers with little or no IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory experience, who will build portlets for the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. Students are introduced to the WebSphere Portlet Factory as an extensible tool to rapidly create, test, and deploy highly adaptive J2EE portlets to IBM WebSphere Portal.

The course presentation is a combination of lecture, discussion, and exercises that illustrate the presented topics. The course begins with an introduction to the WebSphere Portlet Factory, its tool set and execution architecture. The first exercise, and aposHello World and apos portlet, demonstrates the end-to-end process of creating a WebSphere Portlet Factory portlet, making it available to WebSphere Portal, and then displaying it in a WebSphere Portal page.

The remainder of the course presents building adaptive and customizable portlets using the WebSphere Portlet Factory models, Builders, and profiles. The course includes exercises designed to illustrate the WebSphere Portlet Factory&aposs value-add benefits, and then present basic UI building and application flow, the creation and consumption of Web services, the reuse of existing enterprise resources including database data, and customization with profiles. The later portions of the course present higher-level builders that incorporate many functions into one component. The concluding exercises lead students to create custom data model services and use advanced page automation techniques.

Note: This course has been updated from PW410 WebSphere Portlet Factory: Developer Fundamentalsand WP410 IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory: Developer Fundamentals

Audience

The target audience for this course is corporate developers with little or no IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory experience, who will build portlets for the IBM WebSphere Portal Server.

Skills Gained

At the end of this course, the student should be able to contribute to a WebSphere Portlet Factory project as a supplementary technical resource working under a competent technical lead. Specific objectives include:

• Understand theWebSphere Portlet Factory execution architecture
• Build and test basic portlets
• Snap WebSphere Portlet Factory portlets into WebSphere Portal Server
• Expose portlets for customization and personalization through WPS
• Create and consume web services with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• Consume enterprise data with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• Understand how to use new high-level Builders as they become available

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for this course include

• Working knowledge of the Java programming language (strong Java skills not required)
• Working knowledge of XML as a data structure
• Theoretical knowledge of J2EE architecture recommended (proficiency in J2EE development not required)

Course Outline

• WebSphere Portlet Factory execution architecture
• Building and testing basic portlets
• Configuring WebSphere Portlet Factory portlets into WebSphere Portal Server
• Exposing portlets for customization and personalization through WPS
• Creating and consuming Web services with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• Consuming enterprise data with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• Understanding how to use new high-level Builders as they become available

WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1: Developer Fundamentals / WP416GB (WP416GBGB)