All websphere portlet factory designer windows and dialogs provide contextsensitive help that describes the tasks supported by the window or dialog. The solution presented in this portal and spring tutorial can be used beyond the usage described websphere filter example. Creating application with websphere portlet factory. Creating a web service using websphere portlet factory 645. To work with sample web applications or widgets, include the tutorials and samples feature set in your project and use the project explorer to open one of the files in the modelssamples folder. The first half of this tutorial discusses the need for integrating existing domino infrastructure into the websphere portal environment. For an introduction to developing with portlet factory, you may want look at the.
The next step is to provide the builders inputs by typing in the. This tutorial is intended to provide you a full detailed explanation for getting liferay portal up and running and deploy the same employee registration sample that we had developed in earlier tutorial. The portal application then issues calls to the portlet container for all portlets on the current page. Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. Creating application with websphere portlet factory youtube. You see how to pass multiple values from the source portlet to the target portlet, without defining a complex data type inside a web services definition wsdl file.
The portlet code sends a portlet setting to a set preferences page, which stores it in the ali database and redirects to the portal, refreshing the portlet display. In our builder, xslfo syntaxes are extended with custom xml elements that allow us to add dynamic behavior during the generation of the pdf. Like a servlet, a portlet is a shy and reserved little creature that lives peacefully in a war file web application archive. Collaboration with ibm websphere portlet factory and. In this article, we will learn about programming portlets using spring portlets framework which is a layer built on top of java portlet specification jsr 168. Spring portlet development, we can use all liferay apis so that we can develop portlets very easy and if the developers have best understanding about spring then its good choice to develop spring portlets in liferay. It is one of the sample models provided by the ibm websphere portlet factory product. It is managed by the portlet container and processes requests and. There are three main types of portlets typically created in dotcms, the velocity, struts or jsp portlet. Portlet development guide global knowledge management center. Rapid portlet development with websphere portlet factory. Creating portlets documentation for the dotcms content management system. In this tutorial, we will implement basic leave system application.
This is the id that was given in the manage configuration ui page. Websphere portal and portletfactory tutorial solutions. Java portlet development w irad for websphere portal. Note that the deployment descriptor can still be used. This tutorial discusses one of the integration options, using the domino custom jsp tag libraries.
About using websphere portlet factory designer help. Liferay 7 portlet tutorial part2,liferay 7 tutorial. Portlet component can be dragged over the page and swapped with other portlets. I want to create my own portlet with the eclipse juno for liferay.
This section describes how to create a simple jsr168 portlet in eclipse and register it with the aqualogic interaction portal. Ibm websphere portlet factory delivers new portlet. Websphere portlet factory is an ibm product that was originally developed by bowstreet inc. There are different types of portlet containers such as apache pluto, oracle web center and liferay. This simplified hello world portlet example allows a user to set the message that is displayed within a portlet. The portlet container, which holds the users preferences, calls the portlets via the portlet api, requesting the markup fragment from each portlet and returning the fragment to the portal. Typically, following the desktop metaphor, a portal page is displayed as a collection of nonoverlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet.
Here, i attempt to teach liferay technology using huge number of liferay source code examples on various topics. The book offers the reader the tools and information necessary to develop portlets and portal applications in two ways. Spring portlet is a framework released from spring community for easier development of java portlets. Websphere portal, portlets and web services portal.
Websphere portlet factory designer adding builders to a model when a builder is selected from the palette, you are presented with the builder call editor see figure 3. Websphere portal is an enterprise software used to build and manage web portals. Websphere portlet factory designer provides contextsensitive help for all features and functions. The portlet interface is used by the portlet container to invoke the portlets. Web experience factory designer is integrated in to the eclipse development environment web experience factory designer is a tool for developing java 2 platform, enterprise edition j2ee web applications, portlets, and widgets to be published to ibm lotus mashups web experience factory designer is a plugin to eclipsebased integrated development environments ides. Portlet interface in many regards, a portlet behaves very much like a servlet from the servlet and jsp api.
The portlet you create will implement the view mode and display the message hello, world. Jsr 168 interportlet communications using ibm rational. Ibm websphere portlet factory software delivers an easier. And because portals and portlets are so flexible, the accompanying source code can be easily adapted and reused. In this article, you learn how the rest service call builder in ibm websphere portlet factory can be used to access, display, and manipulate the data from the five ibm lotus connections services. This article also covers some details about java portlet specification.
Create a jsp page for the view mode of the portlet. In the portlet filter, leveraged the beans from the bean factory. Websphere portlet factory is a powerful and flexible tool for rapidly building portlets on top of a serviceoriented architecture. Every portlet has to implement this interface, either by directly implementing it, or by using an existing class implementing the portlet interface. In this step, you will create a project in portlet factory designer. To create a new model, click file new websphere portlet factory model. Expert developer david bowley walks you through several of todays most common portlet development scenarios, demonstrating how to create powerful, robust. In this tutorial, you learned how to create a portlet, using websphere portlet factory, that runs on websphere portal and accesses a database. See the portlet factory wiki for a complete list of these. It teaches portlet development handson as you develop a portal that incorporates most key features of the portlet 2.
Portlets produce fragments of markup code that are aggregated into a portal. This article is taken from the book portlets in action from manning publications. Using ibm websphere portlet factory to integrate ibm lotus. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Communication between portlet factory and jsr 168 stack. This behaviour allows you to rearrange your web page elements the way you want. Its meant to illustrate a way to use spring when you dont have control over the runtime environment, but still want to reuse your existing spring. It is a development environment for building portal and web applications. Portlet development for the websphere portal environment is also described.
Liferay with spring make us better way of using spring capabilities and liferay capabilities. Its part of a threepart series that creates a portlet example using the spring 3. I have one portlet in portlet factory in one page in one. Building portlets with ibm websphere portlet factory 6. Using ibm websphere portlet factory to create a web application. Recently ibm has changed the name of the software from websphere portlet factory to web experience factory. Learn how to build an ibm web experience factory portlet that creates pdf files on the fly, using xsl files. In this tutorial, you will create a project for all the models that will be built in tutorials 7. Stepbystep guide for building your own portlets 2008 by david bowley. Programming portlets, second edition takes developers down a path of understanding all the latest concepts, including soa, ajax, and best practices to consider when building a j2eebased portal. This article is one in a collection of articles and samples that illustrate techniques for developing with portlet factory. A portlets cache settings can be set so that the output is either cached for a.
This tutorial is an extension to liferay 7 portlet tutorial. See the portlet factory product documentation page for a complete list of these. When both configuration annotations and a portlet deployment descriptor are present, values from the. You saw how portlet factory automates the creation of portlet artifacts such as jsp pages, xml schema, java code, and so on. Developers are able to quickly and easily leverage their companys core assets, automatically assembling them into custom, highvalue portlets. Portlet development traditionally has been difficult and timeconsuming, requiring costly resources and specialized expertise in multiple technologies. Portlets in action is a comprehensive guide to building portletdriven applications in java. Hi liferay savvy visitors i am going to write tutorial about liferay technology. Tutorial for creating own portlet in liferay with eclipse. From the standpoint of an application developer, a portlet is any java class that implements the javax. Portlet frameworks running on websphere portal jsf v 1. It also introduces the domino build portlet applications to access domino.
Create a basic spring 3 mvc portlet for websphere portal part 1. Find answers to websphere portal and portletfactory tutorial from the expert community at experts exchange. Custom page layout with ibm websphere portlet factory. Ibm websphere portal v4 developers handbook ibm redbooks. Rightclick pettravel and click new, websphere portlet factory model. You can totally trust our building portlets with ibm websphere portlet factory 6. This content is no longer being updated or maintained. Developing portlets using eclipse and websphere portlet. The following is the content i proposed to write and please provide feedback and add your ideas through comments. If the portlet has been previously deployed, you will receive a popup asking to overwrite the existing content. It is possible to create other types of portlets though i.
If portlet output is static in nature, or is valid for some fairly lengthy period of time before it is updated, then the portlet should enable the display cache by setting appropriate values for the elements in the portlets deployment descriptor portlet. Launch the websphere portlet factory model wizard to create a service consumer model. Portal application development using websphere portlet factory. This edition applies to version 5 of ibm websphere portal, websphere studio site developer.
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