IBM rational application developer V6 portlet application development and portal tools / Juan R. Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Juan R.

Contributor:

Cesario, Cristiano.

Galvan, Karla.

González, Belén.

Kroner, George.

Rutigliano, Gianfranco.

Wilson, Ryan.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

WebSphere.

IBM software.

Computer security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1048 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This IBM Redbook provides an overview and hands-on scenarios to help you design, develop and implement portlet applications using Rational Application Developer V6.0 and the provided Portal Tools. The sample scenarios included in this redbook target Business-to-Employee (B2E) enterprise applications, but most of the scenarios presented will also apply to Business-to-Consumer (B2C) applications. You will find step-by-step examples and scenarios showing ways to integrate your enterprise applications into an IBM WebSphere Portal environment using the WebSphere Portal APIs provided by the Portal Tools to develop portlets. You will also learn how to extend your portlet capabilities to use advanced functions such as cooperative portlets, internationalization, action events, using the Credential Vault to enable Single Sign-On, Web Services, remote portlets, portal design and portlet debugging capabilities. Elements of the Portlet API and the standard JSR168 API are described and sample code is provided. The scenarios included in this redbook can be used to learn about portlet programming and as a basis for your own portlet applications. You will also find scenarios describing recommended ways to develop portlets and portlet applications that follow the MVC design pattern, the Struts framework and JavaServer Faces technology. Basic knowledge of Java technologies such as servlets, JavaBeans, EJBs, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), as well as of XML applications and the terminology used in Web publishing, is assumed.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Overview

1.1 Portal evolution

1.1.1 The generations of portal technology

1.2 Overview

1.2.1 What is a portal?

1.2.2 Enablement for portals

1.2.3 The WebSphere Portal framework

1.2.4 WebSphere Portal architecture

1.2.5 WebSphere Portal tooling

1.3 WebSphere Portal

1.3.1 Portal concepts

1.3.2 Portlets

1.3.3 The model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern

1.3.4 Standard MVC architecture

1.3.5 Portlet MVC architecture

1.3.6 Portlet MVC sample

1.3.7 WebSphere Portal runtime: the portlet container

1.3.8 Page aggregation

1.4 Highlights in WebSphere Portal V5.1

1.4.1 Portal install

1.4.2 General infrastructure

1.4.3 Event broker

1.4.4 Member subsystem

1.4.5 Authentication

1.4.6 Authorization

1.4.7 URL generation, processing and mappings

1.4.8 Search

1.4.9 Content management

1.4.10 Transcoding

1.4.11 Struts Portlet Framework

1.4.12 JSF Portlet Runtime

1.4.13 User interface

1.4.14 Cooperative portlets (Click-To-Action)

1.4.15 Portal Toolkit

1.5 Portlet solution patterns

1.6 Building a war file

Chapter 2. Developing Portal applications

2.1 Portal overview

2.1.1 Portal concepts and definitions

2.1.2 IBM WebSphere Portal

2.1.3 IBM Rational Application Developer

2.2 Developing applications for WebSphere Portal

2.2.1 Portal samples and tutorials

2.2.2 Development strategy

2.2.3 Portal tools for developing portals

2.2.4 Portal tools for developing portlets

2.2.5 Portal tools for testing and debugging portlets

2.2.6 Portal tools for deploying and managing portlets

2.2.7 Enterprise Application Integration Portal tools.

2.2.8 Coexistence and migration of tools and applications

2.3 Portal development scenario

2.3.1 Preparing for the sample

2.3.2 Creating a portal project

2.3.3 Adding and modifying a portal page

2.3.4 Creating and modifying two portlets

2.3.5 Adding portlets to a portal page

2.3.6 Running the project in the test environment

Chapter 3. Portlet development platform sample installation

3.1 Prerequisites

3.1.1 Hardware requirements

3.1.2 Software requirements

3.2 Rational Application Developer and Portal Tools

3.3 WebSphere Portal V5.1 Test Environment

3.4 Configuration of the Test Environment

3.5 WebSphere Test Environment V5.1 (optional)

Chapter 4. IBM Portlet API

4.1 IBM portlets

4.2 IBM portlet application

4.3 Servlets versus portlets

4.4 Portlet modes

4.5 Portlet states

4.6 Core objects

4.6.1 Hierarchy

4.6.2 Portlet

4.6.3 PortletAdapter

4.6.4 PortletRequest

4.6.5 PortletResponse

4.6.6 PortletSession object

4.6.7 Client

4.6.8 PortletConfig object

4.6.9 PortletContext object

4.6.10 PortletSettings object

4.6.11 PortletApplicationSettings object

4.6.12 PortletData object

4.6.13 PortletLog object

4.6.14 PortletException

4.6.15 UnavailableException

4.6.16 PortletWindow object

4.6.17 User object

4.6.18 PortletURI

4.7 Portlet life cycle

4.8 Listeners

4.8.1 PortletTitleListener

4.8.2 PortletPageListener

4.8.3 PortletSessionListener

4.8.4 WindowListener

4.8.5 PortletSettingsAttributeListener

4.8.6 PortletApplicationSettingsAttributesListener

4.9 Action event handling

4.9.1 ActionListener

4.9.2 ActionEvent

4.9.3 PortletURI

4.9.4 ModeModifier

4.10 Attribute storage summary

4.11 Portlet JSPs

4.11.1 Portlet tag library

4.11.2 Portlet events and messaging

4.12 Portlet deployment.

4.12.1 web.xml

4.12.2 portlet.xml

4.12.3 Parameter summary

4.12.4 Descriptors relationship (web.xml and portlet.xml)

4.12.5 UID guidelines

4.13 Resources

Chapter 5. A first portlet application

5.1 Sample scenario

5.2 Creating the portlet project

5.2.1 Using the Portlet Project wizard

5.3 Configuring the test environment

5.4 Running the portlet project

5.5 Modifying the portlet project and verifying changes

5.5.1 Changing the JSP used for the View mode

5.5.2 Adding a JavaBean

Chapter 6. IBM Portlet API portlet development

6.1 About action events

6.2 Development scenario

6.3 Creating the portlet project

6.4 Configuring your project in the test environment

6.5 Examining and modifying the source code

6.6 Running your project in the test environment

Chapter 7. Portlet messaging

7.1 Portlet messaging

7.2 MessageListener

7.3 MessageEvent

7.4 DefaultPortletMessage

7.5 PortletMessage

7.6 Sample scenario

7.6.1 Description

7.6.2 Sending a message

7.6.3 Creating the target portlet

7.6.4 Running the portlet application

7.7 Broadcasting messages

Chapter 8. JSR 168 API

8.1 JSR overview

8.1.1 Number of portlet instances

8.1.2 Portlet windows

8.1.3 Thread safety

8.2 JSR 168 comparison to servlets

8.3 JSR 168 portlet modes

8.4 JSR 168 Portlet window states

8.5 Core JSR 168 objects

8.5.1 interface javax.portlet.Portlet

8.5.2 class javax.portlet.GenericPortlet

8.5.3 interface javax.portlet.PortletURL

8.5.4 interface javax.portlet.PortletContext

8.5.5 interface javax.portlet.PortletRequest

8.5.6 interface javax.portlet.ActionRequest

8.5.7 interface javax.portlet.RenderRequest

8.5.8 interface javax.portlet.PortletResponse

8.5.9 interface javax.portlet.ActionResponse

8.5.10 interface javax.portlet.RenderResponse.

8.5.11 interface javax.portlet.PortalContext

8.5.12 interface javax.portlet.PortletPreferences

8.5.13 interface javax.portlet.PreferencesValidator

8.5.14 interface javax.portlet.PortletConfig

8.5.15 interface javax.portlet.PortletSession

8.6 JSR 168 Portlet life cycle

8.6.1 Instantiation

8.6.2 Initialization

8.6.3 Request handling

8.6.4 End of service

8.7 Portlet caching

8.7.1 Remote cache

8.8 Listeners

8.8.1 HttpSessionBindingListener

8.8.2 ServletContextListener

8.8.3 ServletContextAttributeListener

8.8.4 HttpSessionListener

8.8.5 HttpSessionAttributeListener

8.9 Deployment descriptors

8.9.1 Portlet.xml declaration

8.9.2 portlet-app - required, can occur only once

8.9.3 portlet - can occur zero or more times

8.9.4 custom-portlet-mode - can occur zero or more times

8.9.5 custom-window-state - can occur zero or more times

8.9.6 user-attribute - can occur zero or more times

8.9.7 security-constraint - can occur zero or more times

8.10 JSR 168 limitations in WebSphere Portal

Chapter 9. JSR 168 portlet development

9.1 Overview

9.2 Creating a JSR 168 portlet project

9.2.1 Creating a basic JSR 168 portlet

9.2.2 Examining the generated portlet

9.3 Updating the generated portlet

9.3.1 Modifying the session bean

9.3.2 View mode

9.3.3 Edit mode

9.3.4 Configure mode

9.3.5 Updating the portlet descriptor (portlet.xml)

9.3.6 Modifying the MySimplePortletPortletPreferenceValidator class

9.4 Running the portlet

9.4.1 Executing the portlet

Chapter 10. Migrating to JSR 168

10.1 Modifying the deployment descriptor

10.1.1 doctype

10.1.2 portlet-app

10.1.3 concrete-portlet-app

10.1.4 portlet

10.1.5 portlet-name

10.1.6 web.xml

10.1.7 cache

10.1.8 supports

10.1.9 allows

10.1.10 config-param

10.1.11 Locale settings.

10.2 Modifying the Java source

10.2.1 Package

10.2.2 Superclass

10.2.3 doXXX methods

10.2.4 actionPerformed

10.2.5 ActionEvent

10.2.6 Logging

10.2.7 JSP includes

10.2.8 PortletData and PortletSettings

10.2.9 namespace

10.2.10 portlet URLs

10.3 Modifying the JSP source

10.3.1 taglib

10.3.2 portletAPI:init

10.3.3 namespace

10.3.4 Creating URLs

10.3.5 portletAPI:text

10.3.6 encodeURL

10.3.7 CSS

10.4 Struts

10.5 JSF

10.6 Portlet services

10.7 Messaging

Chapter 11. Using JSPs and servlets

11.1 Overview

11.1.1 Generating output

11.2 RequestDispatcher

11.2.1 PortletContext.getRequestDispatcher

11.2.2 PortletContext.getNamedDispatcher

11.2.3 PortletRequestDispatcher.include

11.3 JSP tags

11.3.1 defineObjects

11.3.2 renderURL

11.3.3 actionURL

11.3.4 namespace

11.3.5 param

11.3.6 IBM tags

11.3.7 JSTL

11.4 Cascading style sheets (CSS)

11.4.1 WSRP Styles

11.4.2 IBM styles

Chapter 12. Internationalization

12.1 Resource bundles

12.1.1 Creating resource bundles in Rational Application Developer

12.1.2 Translating resource bundles

12.1.3 Accessing resource bundles in portlets

12.1.4 Accessing resource bundles in JSPs

12.2 Translating whole resources

12.3 JSR 168 API considerations

12.4 Dynamically changing the language

12.5 NLS administration

12.5.1 Portlet NLS administration

12.5.2 Portal NLS administration

12.5.3 Setting NLS titles

12.5.4 Supporting a new language

12.6 Working with characters

12.7 NLS best practices

12.8 Sample scenario: NLS bundles

12.8.1 NLS bundles

12.8.2 Accessing NLS bundles from JSPs

12.8.3 Running the NLS scenario

12.8.4 Accessing NLS bundles in Java portlets

12.9 Sample scenario: translating whole resources

12.10 Dynamically changing the language.

Chapter 13. Struts portlets.

Notes:

"August 2005."

"SG24-6681-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

560078565