A portal composite pattern using WebSphere Portal V4.1 / [Michele Galic ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galic, Michele.

International Business Machines Corporation.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web portals--Computer programs.

Web portals.

Software patterns.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xvi, 418 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Chapter 1. Patterns for e-business

1.1 The Patterns for e-business layered asset model

1.2 How to use the Patterns for e-business

1.2.1 Select a Business, Integration, or Composite pattern, or a Custom design

1.2.2 Selecting Application patterns

1.2.3 Review Runtime patterns

1.2.4 Review Product mappings

1.2.5 Review guidelines and related links

1.3 Summary

Chapter 2. Introduction to WebSphere Portal V4.1

2.1 Introduction to WebSphere Portal

2.2 The WebSphere Portal family

2.2.1 WebSphere Portal Enable

2.2.2 WebSphere Portal Extend

2.2.3 WebSphere Portal Experience

2.3 The WebSphere Portal infrastructure

2.3.1 WebSphere Portal runtime process flow

Part 1 Portal composite pattern

Chapter 3. Portal composite pattern

3.1 Introduction to the Portal composite pattern

3.1.1 Business drivers

3.1.2 Jump-start portal questions

3.1.3 IT drivers

3.2 Understanding the Patterns for e-business

3.3 The Portal Custom design

3.3.1 Access Integration pattern

3.3.2 Self-Service business pattern

3.3.3 Collaboration business pattern

3.3.4 Information Aggregation business pattern

3.3.5 Extended Enterprise business pattern

3.3.6 Application Integration pattern

3.3.7 Portal characteristics

3.3.8 The Portal composite pattern

3.3.9 Benefits

3.3.10 Limitations

3.4 Summary

Chapter 4. Selecting the Application patterns

4.1 Application patterns for the Portal composite pattern

4.1.1 Identified Application patterns

4.1.2 A Portal custom design

4.2 Application patterns described

4.2.1 Access Integration::Web Single Sign-On application pattern.

4.2.2 Access Integration::Pervasive Device Access application pattern

4.2.3 Access Integration::Personalized Delivery application pattern

4.2.4 Self-Service::Directly Integrated Single Channel application pattern

4.2.5 Collaboration::Store and Retrieve application pattern

4.2.6 Collaboration::Directed Collaboration application pattern

4.2.7 Information Aggregation::Population Single-Step application pattern

4.2.8 Information Aggregation::Population Multi-Step application pattern

4.2.9 Information Aggregation::Population Crawling and Discovery application pattern

4.3 Summary

4.4 Where to find more information

Chapter 5. Selecting the Runtime pattern

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Portal composite runtime pattern

5.2.1 Node descriptions

5.3 Runtime patterns for the Portal composite pattern

5.3.1 Access Integration

5.3.2 Self-Service

5.3.3 Collaboration

5.3.4 Information Aggregation

Chapter 6. Selecting the Product mapping

6.1 Product mapping

6.1.1 Product descriptions

6.2 Alternative products and technologies

6.3 Where to find more information

Part 2 Portal composite pattern guidelines

Chapter 7. Technology options

7.1 Connector technology selection

7.1.1 Web services

7.1.2 J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA)

7.1.3 Java Message Service

7.1.4 Others

7.2 Web client

7.2.1 Web browser

7.2.2 HTML

7.2.3 Dynamic HTML

7.2.4 CSS

7.2.5 JavaScript

7.2.6 Java applets

7.2.7 XHTML 1.0 (HTML 4.01)

7.2.8 XForms

7.2.9 XSLT

7.2.10 Mobile clients

7.3 Web Application Server

7.3.1 Java servlets

7.3.2 JavaServer Pages (JSPs)

7.3.3 JavaBeans

7.3.4 XML

7.3.5 Enterprise JavaBeans

7.3.6 Additional enterprise Java APIs

7.4 Where to find more information

Chapter 8. Application design

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 WebSphere Portal Server architecture diagram

8.2.1 Single-tier vs. multi-tier design

8.3 Portal solution guidelines

8.3.1 Model-View-Controller design

8.3.2 Content management guidelines

8.3.3 Single sign-on guidelines

8.3.4 Collaboration guidelines

8.3.5 Web services guidelines

8.4 Summary

8.5 Where to find more information

Chapter 9. Application development

9.1 Portal development

9.1.1 Available portlets

9.1.2 The portal look and feel

9.2 Portlet concepts

9.2.1 Portlet applications

9.2.2 Core objects

9.2.3 Portlet modes

9.2.4 Portlet states

9.2.5 Event handling

9.3 The development environment

9.3.1 WebSphere Studio Application Developer

9.3.2 Portal Development Kit (PDK) plug-in

9.3.3 Debugger

9.3.4 Lotus Sametime Toolkit

9.4 Portal Development toolkit

9.4.1 Portal debugger configuration

9.4.2 Exporting a WebSphere Studio Application Developer Web project to a WAR

9.5 Packaging Portlets

9.5.1 Portlet WAR files

9.5.2 Deployment descriptors

9.6 Installing Portlets

9.6.1 Installing portlets using Portal Admin pages

9.6.2 Updating an already installed Portlet Application

9.6.3 Installing portlets using the Portlet configuration interface

9.7 Portlet development guidelines

9.7.1 Portlet classes

9.7.2 Java Server Pages

9.7.3 Internationalization of portlets

9.7.4 Using persistence

9.7.5 Converting an existing application to a portal application

9.7.6 MVC and Portlet creation guidelines

9.7.7 Using the Portlet API tags

9.7.8 Message and trace logging

9.7.9 Performance guidelines

9.7.10 Best Practices

9.8 The credential vault

9.9 Tailoring the Search portlet

9.9.1 Configuring document search

9.10 Web services within the portal

9.11 Collaboration within the portal.

9.11.1 Configuring the NotesView portlet for people awareness

9.12 Web Content Publisher concepts

9.12.1 Web Content Publisher user interface

9.12.2 Projects

9.12.3 Editions

9.12.4 Workspaces

9.12.5 File content

9.12.6 Structured content

9.12.7 Roles

9.12.8 Access Control

9.12.9 Workflow

9.12.10 Quick Edit Activity

9.12.11 Publish server

9.13 Creating resources

9.13.1 Using the Content wizard

9.13.2 Personalization within the portal

Chapter 10. Systems management

10.1 WebSphere Resource Analyzer

10.1.1 About Resource Analyzer

10.1.2 Performance counters

10.1.3 Instrumentation levels

10.1.4 Using the Resource Analyzer

10.2 Tivoli Web Site Analyzer

10.2.1 Multi-channel data collection model

10.2.2 Site analysis

10.2.3 Content analysis

10.2.4 Reporting capabilities

10.2.5 Guidelines for using Tivoli Web Site Analyzer

10.3 Managing WebSphere Portal Server

10.3.1 Authentication

10.3.2 User and group management

10.3.3 Access control

10.3.4 Creating places and pages

10.4 Managing Web Content Publisher

10.4.1 User management

10.4.2 Workflow roles

10.4.3 Access control

10.4.4 Publish servers

10.4.5 Managing editions

10.4.6 Version control

10.5 Managing WebSphere Personalization

10.6 Messages, logs, traces

10.7 Where to find more information

Part 3 Portal composite pattern technical scenario

Chapter 11. Scenario description

11.1 YourCo Toys story line

11.2 Capturing business requirements

11.2.1 YourCo Toys' requirements

11.3 Data model

11.3.1 Self-syndicated news

11.3.2 Product list

11.3.3 Company address book

11.4 Summary

Chapter 12. Technical implementation of the scenario

12.1 Physical environment

12.1.1 Runtime pattern representation

12.1.2 Authoring environment

12.1.3 The Intranet Portal.

12.2 Content creation

12.2.1 Creating a project

12.2.2 Company News portlet

12.2.3 Product list

12.2.4 Workflow during content creation

12.3 The Portal theme

12.3.1 Portal structure

12.3.2 Mobile phone access

12.3.3 Remote portlet

12.4 Summary

Appendix A. Installation notes

Verifying Install Logs

Single sign-on

Setting up SSO between WebSphere Server and Domino

Including additional WebSphere servers in SSO

Install recommendations

Domino HTTP port

Domino and WebSphere on same machine

Lotus Notes e-mail setup considerations

Portal collaboration with Lotus Sametime

Registering a Sametime Server with Domino

Installing and configuring the Sametime Server

Configuring WebSphere Portal Server for Sametime

Appendix B. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

568132282