WebSphere Portal Server : training course

Course Outline

This course will first of all give you an overview of WebSphere Portal Server, its architecture and its main features. It will then teach you how to develop and test portlet applications following the JSR 168 specification, as well as comparing it to the IBM Portlet API. During the course, you will also look at integration technologies such as cooperation, credential vault, and portlet services.

Available as a public or closed course at our London training centre, or can be tailored to your team's requirements and delivered onsite as a bespoke, customised WebSphere Portal training course.

Users are shown best practices throughout and given performance and design tips and guidelines.

Course Content

Our hands-on WebSphere Portal Server training course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors.

See below for our detailed training course syllabus. The course contains many hands-on tutorials based on real-world scenarios. If you have a technical question, please email [email protected].

What you will learn

At the end of this course you will be able to:

1. Use and do basic administration of a WebSphere Portal Sever instance
2. Create, configure and install portlet applications
3. Develop portlets using JSR 168
4. Explain the main differences between JSR 168 and IBM Portlet API
5. Create JSF portlets
6. Brand the portal with themes and skins
7. Develop portlet services and use the credential vault service
8. Configure cooperative portlet with Click-To-Action

WebSphere Portal Server Training Course UK

WebSphere Portal overview

Sites v. Portals
The need for a portal server
Page aggregation
Portlet container
Servlets v. Portlets

Administration Basics

Content hierarchy
- Pages
- Labels
- URLs
Themes and skins
Page layout and locks
Access control
Portal Architecture

Developing for Portal

IRAD 7
Portal development features in IRAD 7
Portlet applications
JSR 168 v. IBM Portlet API
Testing and deploying in the IRAD Test Environment

The Portlet API

What is a Portlet
The portlet life-cycle
Portlet Modes and Window

States

Two phase processing
Portlet request and response
Portlet Session
Portlet URLs
Namespace encoding
Portlet exceptions and logging
Request dispatcher
Internationalization

Portlet Configuration Objects

PortletConfig
PortletContext
PortletSession
Preferences
- Validation
Portlet instances

JSR 168 Tag Libraries

The Portal tag library

Action Processing

User initiated actions
Portlet communication
- The IBM Portlet API way
- The JSR 168 way
JSF portlets with IRAD 7

Cooperative Portlets

The Click-To-Action framework
Source, Target and Property
The PropertyBroker service
Enabling a source portlet
Enabling a target portlet
Action wiring
The Wiring admin portlet

Portlet Services

The services framework
Creating services
Registering services
Using services

Credential Vault

Programmatic SSO
The vault
Segments
- User managed
- Admin managed
Slots
- System
- Managed
- Shared
- Private
Credential
- Active
- Passive
Using the vault service

Portal Branding

Creating custom themes
Creating custom skins
Registering themes and skins
Applying a theme or skin

Personalization

Portal support for personalization
Content spots and resources
Adding content spots to portlets