This five day training class teaches students WebSphere Portal development using JSR 286 API. The JSR 286 API is the first revision of the portlet specification in nearly five years and contains significant improvements. The class also covers Struts and JavaServer Faces based portal site development. All labs are done using Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5.

Using AJAX technology with a portal site is increasingly becoming an option for developers. This class teaches an overview of AJAX and how it may be used in a WebSphere Portal web site.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

Install and use the latest Portal Toolkit
Understand the JSR 286 portlet programming model
Use the Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5 based Portal Toolkit to build portal applications
Develop cooperative portlets to share data
Develop portlets using Struts and JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Use AJAX in a portlet
Provide and consume portlets using Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)

Introduction to WebSphere Portal, key concepts and benefits
Portal programming model
Detail coverage of the JSR 286 API
Introduction to Portal Toolkit
Customizing Portal themes using RAD tools
Struts based portlet development
JavaServer Faces (JSF) based portlet development
AJAX
Web Services for Remote Portlets

Programmers who will be developing applications for WebSphere Portal Server.

Students should have intermediate knowledge of Java development using Rational Application Developer. Knowledge of Servlet and JSP is strongly recommended.

• Overview of WebSphere Portal
• The development environment
• JSR 168: Portlet API introduction
• Exercise: Building and testing a simple portlet application
• JSR 168: Core objects
• JSR 168: Configuration objects
• Exercise: Managing portlet configuration and presentation mark-up
• Tag libraries
• Action processing
• Exercise: Handling actions in portlets
• JSF in portlet applications
• Exercise: Building a faces portlet
• Portlet services
• Exercise: Building and deploying a portlet service
• Credential vault service
• Exercise: Using the credential vault
• Portal branding: Portal development tools
• Exercise: Building custom themes and skins
• Property broker service
• Exercise: Integrating cooperative portlets
• Personalization
• Composite applications
• Exercise : Composite applications
• Integrating people and business processes
• Demonstration: Process portal
• People integration services
• Ajax and portlet applications
• Exercise: Ajax in WebSphere Portal
• Portlet development best practices
• Course summary