IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory: Developer Fundamentals  (PW410)

Get an introduction to the Portlet Factory as an extensible tool to rapidly create, test, and deploy highly adaptive Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) portlets to WebSphere Portal. The course presentation is a combination of interactive lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises that illustrate the presented topics. Begin with an introduction to the Portlet Factory, its tool set, and execution architecture. The first exercise is a Hello World portlet that demonstrates the end-to-end process of creating a Portlet Factory portlet, making it available to WebSphere Portal, and then displaying it in a WebSphere Portal page. The remainder of the course is about building adaptive, customizable, and personalizable portlets using the Portlet Factory models, builders, and profiles. Each topic begins with an overview exercise designed to illustrate the Portlet Factory's biggest value-add benefits and then moves on to target basic User Interface (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 latter portions of the course feature higher-level builders that incorporate many functions into one component. This course is the equivalent to WP410: IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory: Developer Fundamentals.