IBM WebSphere Portal V5 : a guide for portlet application development / [Juan R. Rodriguez ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodriguez, Juan R.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web portals.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xvi, 554 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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 Portlet modes

1.3.4 Portlet states

1.3.5 Portlets and the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern

1.3.6 WebSphere Portal runtime: the portlet container

1.3.7 Portlet life cycle

1.3.8 Portlet events and messaging

1.3.9 Page aggregation

1.4 Highlights in WebSphere Portal V5

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 Content publishing

1.4.11 Transcoding

1.4.12 Struts Portlet Framework

1.4.13 User interface

1.4.14 Cooperative portlets (Click-To-Action)

1.4.15 Portal Toolkit

1.5 Portlet solution patterns

Chapter 2. Portlet API

2.1 What is a portlet?

2.2 Basic portlet terms

2.3 MVC architecture

2.3.1 Standard MVC architecture

2.3.2 Portlet MVC architecture

2.3.3 Portlet MVC sample

2.4 Servlets versus portlets

2.5 What is a portlet application?

2.6 Portlet deployment

2.6.1 web.xml

2.6.2 portlet.xml

2.6.3 Parameter summary

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

2.6.5 UID guidelines

2.6.6 Building a war file

2.7 Portlet life cycle

2.8 Portlet API

2.8.1 Hierarchy

2.9 Core portlet objects

2.9.1 Portlet

2.9.2 PortletAdapter.

2.9.3 PortletRequest

2.9.4 PortletResponse

2.9.5 PortletSession object

2.9.6 Client

2.9.7 PortletConfig object

2.9.8 PortletContext object

2.9.9 PortletSettings object

2.9.10 PortletApplicationSettings object

2.9.11 PortletData object

2.9.12 PortletLog object

2.9.13 PortletException

2.9.14 UnavailableException

2.9.15 PortletWindow object

2.9.16 User object

2.9.17 PortletURI

2.10 Listeners

2.10.1 PortletTitleListener

2.10.2 PortletPageListener

2.10.3 PortletSessionListener

2.10.4 WindowListener

2.10.5 PortletSettingsAttributeListener

2.10.6 PortletApplicationSettingsAttributesListener

2.11 Action event handling

2.12 Core event objects

2.12.1 ActionListener

2.12.2 ActionEvent

2.12.3 PortletURI

2.12.4 ModeModifier

2.13 Portlet messaging

2.13.1 MessageListener

2.13.2 MessageEvent

2.13.3 DefaultPortletMessage

2.13.4 PortletMessage

2.14 PropertyListener interface

2.15 EventPhaseListener interface

2.16 Attribute storage summary

2.17 Portlet services

2.17.1 ContentAccessService

2.17.2 Custom services

2.18 Credential Vault

2.19 Core Credential Vault objects

2.19.1 Vault

2.19.2 Segment

2.19.3 Slot

2.19.4 Credential

2.20 Portlet JSPs

2.20.1 Portlet tag library

2.21 Resources

Chapter 3. Portal Toolkit

3.1 Hardware and software requirements

3.2 Portal Toolkit installation

3.3 Development environment

3.4 Portlet application wizard

3.5 Developing portlet applications

3.5.1 Portlet application contents

3.5.2 Generated classes

3.6 Portlet.xml descriptor

3.7 Deploying portlets

3.8 Adding portlets to applications

3.9 Examples

Chapter 4. A first portlet application

4.1 Sample scenario

4.1.1 Creating a portlet project

4.1.2 Configuring the Test Environment.

4.1.3 Running the portlet application

4.1.4 Updating the portlet project

4.1.5 Adding a JavaBean to your portlet project

Chapter 5. Action event handling

5.1 Action event

5.2 Window events

5.3 Simple action String support

5.4 Sample scenario

5.4.1 Scenario overview

5.4.2 Creating the ActionEvent portlet

5.4.3 Run the ActionEvent portlet application

Chapter 6. Portlet debugging

6.1 Overview

6.2 Sample scenario

6.2.1 Fixing compile errors

6.2.2 Debugging a portlet application

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. National Language Support (NLS)

8.1 Resource bundles

8.1.1 Creating resource bundles in WebSphere Studio

8.1.2 Translating resource bundles

8.1.3 Accessing resource bundles in portlets

8.1.4 Accessing resource bundles in JSPs

8.2 Translating whole resources

8.3 NLS administration

8.3.1 Portlet NLS administration

8.3.2 Portal NLS administration

8.3.3 Setting NLS titles

8.3.4 Adjusting Portal resource bundles

8.4 Working with characters

8.5 NLS best practices

8.6 Sample scenario: NLS bundles

8.6.1 NLS bundles

8.6.2 Accessing NLS bundles from JSPs

8.6.3 Running the NLS scenario

8.6.4 Accessing NLS bundles in Java portlets

8.7 Sample scenario: translating whole resources

Chapter 9. Accessing Web Services

9.1 Overview

9.2 A simple Web Service project

9.2.1 A sample Web Service

9.3 Creating a Web Services client portlet

9.4 Run the WSClientPortlet application

Chapter 10. Using the Credential Vault

10.1 Overview.

10.2 Importing a protected servlet application

10.3 Using active credentials

10.3.1 Updating the generated portlet

10.3.2 Running the portlet

10.4 Using passive credentials

Chapter 11. Accessing back-end JDBC databases

11.1 Creating a database connection

11.1.1 Creating a new connection

11.1.2 Importing to a folder

11.1.3 Creating an SQL statement

11.1.4 Generating Java classes

11.1.5 Running the SQL statement

11.2 Sample scenario

11.2.1 Overview

11.2.2 Creating HRPortlet

11.2.3 Importing the WAR file

11.2.4 Reviewing the portlet code

11.2.5 Running the HRPortlet application

Chapter 12. Cooperative portlets

12.1 Overview

12.1.1 The WebSphere Portal property broker

12.1.2 Programming model

12.1.3 Registering and publishing properties

12.2 Sample scenario

12.2.1 Development workstation

12.2.2 Description

12.2.3 Source cooperative portlet

12.2.4 Target cooperative portlet

12.2.5 Running the cooperative portlets

12.3 Hints and tips

Chapter 13. Advanced cooperative portlets

13.1 Publishing properties programmatically

13.2 Portlet event handling

13.3 Broadcasting source data

13.4 Wiring tool

13.5 Sample scenario

13.5.1 Declarative source cooperative portlet

13.5.2 Enabling the portlet for target C2A programmatic

13.5.3 Running the cooperative portlets

13.5.4 Wire portlets

13.5.5 Enabling HRPortlet for programmatic source C2A

13.5.6 Running the programmatic source portlet

Chapter 14. Struts portlets

14.1 Overview

14.1.1 The Struts portlet framework

14.2 Developing Struts Web applications

14.3 Migrating Struts Web applications

Chapter 15. Portlet preview

15.1 Overview

15.1.1 Portlet Preview buttons available in the toolbar

15.2 Sample scenario

15.2.1 Defining the Portlet Preview preference.

15.2.2 Previewing the portlet

Chapter 16. Remote Server Attach

16.1 Overview

16.2 Preparing Portal for Remote Server Attach

16.3 Remote Server Attach configuration

16.4 Installing a portlet in Remote Portal

16.5 Running the portlet

Appendix A. Portlet development platform sample installation

Prerequisites

Installing a loopback adapter

WebSphere Studio Site Developer (WSSD) V5.0

WebSphere Studio Site Developer - WSSD Fix Pack 1

WebSphere Studio Site Developer - WebSphere Application Server Fix Pack 1

WebSphere Studio Site Developer - WebSphere Application Server Interim Fixes

WebSphere Portal Toolkit V5.0

Toolkit installation

Configuring Studio Site Developer and the Portal Toolkit

Configuration and preparation of the workstation

Installing the Cloudscape sample database

Appendix B. Automatically redeploying portlets

Description

Appendix C. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"January 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342112