IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1: Developer Fundamentals

This instructor-led course is designed for corporate developers with little or no IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory experience, who will build portlets for the IBM WebSphere Portal Server. Students are introduced to the WebSphere Portlet Factory as an extensible tool to rapidly create, test, and deploy highly adaptive J2EE portlets to IBM WebSphere Portal.The course presentation is a combination of lecture, discussion, and exercises that illustrate the presented topics. The course begins with an introduction to the WebSphere Portlet Factory, its tool set and execution architecture. The first exercise, "Hello World" portlet, demonstrates the end-to-end process of creating a WebSphere Portlet Factory portlet, making it available to WebSphere Portal, and then displaying it in a WebSphere Portal page.
The remainder of the course presents building adaptive and customizable portlets using the WebSphere Portlet Factory models, Builders, and profiles. The course includes exercises designed to illustrate the WebSphere Portlet Factory's value-add benefits, and then present basic UI building and application flow, the creation and consumption of Web services, the reuse of existing enterprise resources including database data, and customization with profiles. The later portions of the course present higher-level builders that incorporate many functions into one component. The concluding exercises lead students to create custom data model services and use advanced page automation techniques.