Components overview
Contents
- WebSphere Portal
- WebSphere Portal content publishing
- Portal Personalization
- Document Manager
- Lotus Collaborative Services
- WebSphere Application Server products
- Member Manager
- IBM Tivoli Directory Server
- Cloudscape Database
- DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition
- IBM Rational Application Developer
- WebSphere Translation Server
- IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management
- IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition
- IBM HTTP Server
- Lotus Collaboration Center
- IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server
- Instant messaging and online awareness
- Virtual teamrooms
- IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer
- IBM Lotus Extended Search
- Additional products to use with WebSphere Portal
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
- IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator
- Product and component matrix
WebSphere Portal
WebSphere Portal is a J2EE application that runs on WebSphere Application Server. Its main function is to serve the WebSphere Portal framework to the desktops and mobile devices of portal users. WebSphere Portal creates an environment that provides the connectivity, administration, and presentation services that are required. WebSphere Portal includes several new functions and enhancements that make it easier to design, administer, and use.
WebSphere Portal content publishing
WebSphere Portal content publishing provides a Web-content management solution that gives nontechnical users greater control over content that is published to portals and Web sites. Users benefit from the combined power of having one place to manage content for their Portal environment or other Web sites and an easy-to-use Web interface.
Versions of changed content can be stored in the versioning repository for later reuse. WebSphere Portal content publishing manages the task lists of each user, maintains access control over what content each user can see or change, and coordinates the approval and publishing process when content has been approved.
Portal Personalization
Personalization includes rules-based filtering to display selected content to targeted users and matching techniques that extract visitor behavior and tailor the content within individual portlets based on that behavior.
Document Manager
Document management components allow users to have a central document repository for team collaboration. WebSphere Portal uses a lightweight, portable repository that is database independent. Documents created by Document Manager can be used by Lotus Workplace Web Content Management and can be the subject of business rules developed with Personalization.
Lotus Collaborative Services
Lotus Collaborative Services are UI-neutral API methods and tag libraries that allow developers who are writing portlets for WebSphere Portal to add Lotus Software collaborative functionality to their portlets. Application developers who are using Collaborative Services can design and implement UI extensions that leverage the features of Domino, Lotus Team Workplace, and Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing.
WebSphere Application Server products
IBM WebSphere Application Server is a Web appserver that provides J2EE services for the WebSphere Portal environment. It executes the Java portlets, JavaBeans, JSP files, and EJBs that are used by WebSphere Portal. This component is the platform on which WebSphere Portal runs.
Member Manager
Member Manager is the subcomponent responsible for accessing the user registries for user and group management and authentication. The user registries may be LDAP servers, a Custom User Registry, or the Member Manager database user registry.
IBM Tivoli Directory Server
IBM Tivoli Directory Server is a LDAP directory that runs as a stand-alone daemon. In the WebSphere Portal environment, it stores, updates, and retrieves user-specific data that is related to authentication, such as user IDs and passwords.
Cloudscape Database
Cloudscape is the default database provided with WebSphere Portal to store configuration, access control, such as user identities, credentials, and permissions for accessing portal resources, and user data.
DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition, Enterprise Server Edition
DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition is a Web-enabled, relational-database management system. The WebSphere Portal environment can be configured to use DB2 in place of the default database.
IBM Rational Application Developer
IBM Rational Application Developer is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building, testing, and deploying J2EE applications. It provides integrated development support for building J2EE applications with HTML pages, servlets, JavaServer Pages, and EJBs. It also creates Web service applications with open standards, generates XML documents from DTDs, and enables a collaborative team development environment. It enables end-to-end local and remote testing and creates high-quality applications using wizards, code generators, and best practices.
Rational Application Developer includes wizards and tools to create, test, debug, and deploy individual portlets and Web content. By using templates, developers can quickly and easily create their own portlets. Debugging and deployment tools shorten the development cycle. Sample portlets that demonstrate best programming practices are also provided.
WebSphere Translation Server
Translation Server is a machine translation (MT) offering that helps you remove language as a barrier to global communication and e-commerce. With Translation Server, enterprises can provide Web pages, e-mail messages, and chat conversations in multiple languages, in real time. Specifically designed for enterprise use, the Translation Server allows companies to leverage their existing Web infrastructure to provide content to users in their native language, at a fraction of the cost of professional translation.
Based on IBM machine translation technology, Translation Server is designed for scalability on multiple platforms. Translation Server can run on a dedicated server, using RMI and Java(R) protocol to communicate with the WebSphere Application Server. Web page HTML content can also be translation-enabled to support HTTP servers from Netscape, Apache, Microsoft, or IBM.
Translation Server consists of the following elements:
- MT engines for translating text from one language to another language (such as English to Spanish)
- User Dictionary Manager tools that allow specific words to be added to a domain (for example, tuning for a specific application or adding slang or domain-specific phrases and terms)
- Support for WebSphere Application Server and HTTP servers from Microsoft, Netscape, Apache, and IBM
IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management
Lotus Workplace Web Content Management delivers end-to-end Web content management through Internet, intranet, extranet and portal sites. In addition, Lotus Workplace Web Content Management leverages content in back-end systems and reduces development and implementation time. With Lotus Workplace Web Content Management , you can manage:
- The content and design of pages in a Web site.
- The framework and navigation of a Web site.
- The creation, editing, approval and publication process of a web site's content.
Information on using Lotus Workplace Web Content Management is not included in the WebSphere Portal Information Center but is provided separately in the Lotus Workplace Web Content Management Information Center. The Lotus Workplace Web Content Management documentation is installed with the product and can also be accessed on the Web at:
IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition
IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition is a key component of a working portal development environment. It provides the same core J2EE and Web Services programming model with simplified administration. This configuration appeals to departments, medium businesses and pilot applications which require a lower cost, fast to get running option that does not require the failure bypass, workload distribution or remote administration associated with multi-server management.
IBM WebSphere Application Server Advanced Single Server Edition is provided only in support of Application Developer and is only used in the Application Developer debug environment.
IBM HTTP Server
The foundation of any e-business application is the Web server. IBM HTTP Server features include:
- Support for SSL secure connections
- Fast Response Cache Accelerator
- Administration Server that helps to administer and configure IBM HTTP Server
Additional products and components that are included with WebSphere Portal Extend
The following components are included with WebSphere Portal Extend.
Lotus Collaboration Center
WebSphere Portal featuring Collaboration Center capabilities offers an integrated framework of e-workplace components for finding, connecting, and working with people:
- People Finder portlet
- Directory Connector
- Sample configuration
- My Lotus Team Workplaces (Lotus Team Workplace) portlet
- Lotus Web Conferencing (Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing) portlet
Using these components, users have immediate access to a searchable directory of people that is integrated with their workplaces and their e-meetings within the collaborative portal. Users can find people in the directory, see their online status, and interact with them using instant messaging and other actions that are provided by people links. In addition to search features, the People Finder provides views of each person's directory record and his or her place in the organizational context. People links are visible in workplaces and e-meetings to make employee interaction fast and easy, improving personal and organizational productivity.
IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server
IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server and Notes is groupware software that provides messaging and collaboration features. Notes is the e-mail, calendaring, group scheduling, Web access, and information management client. Domino is the integrated messaging and Web appserver.
Domino Directory can provide your primary corporate directory or the secondary LDAP service that complements another LDAP service (for example, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Windows Active Directory, or Sun ONE) in your portal environment. As a secondary LDAP service, Domino Directory provides user access to Notes-based information sources for Collaborative Services and collaborative portlets.
Usage restrictions apply. You are authorized to install and use Domino solely and exclusively in connection with your use of Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing and Lotus Team Workplace. Consult the product license for details.
Instant messaging and online awareness, based on IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing technology
Instant messaging and online awareness (also known as people awareness), are available. Using Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, portal users can discover if others are available to chat, receive e-mail, share applications and other tools in an e-meeting or Web conference.
Usage restrictions apply. For example, the e-meeting capabilities of Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing are not licensed for use. Consult the product license for details.
Virtual teamrooms based on IBM Lotus Team Workplace technology
A Web-based solution is available for creating team workspaces for collaboration. Using Lotus Team Workplace, portal users can work securely with colleagues, suppliers, partners, and customers. Lotus Team Workplace provides teams with workspaces where they can reach consensus through discussions, collaborate on documents, and coordinate plans, tasks, and resources.
Usage restrictions apply. For example, you are authorized to install and use Lotus Team Workplace solely and exclusively with WebSphere Portal. A separate license is required to access Lotus Team Workplace from a source other than WebSphere Portal. Consult the product license for details.
IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer
IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer is a Web application that captures and analyzes Web site data to provide reports about visitor traffic, visitor behavior, site usage, site content, and site structure. You can build customized reports from predefined report elements or you can build custom reports that collect information specific to a site. You can create trend reports that show Web site visitor traffic, site usage growth, and changes over time.
Specific support for WebSphere Portal allows one to analyze portal usage data, such as a ranking of the portal pages viewed by visitors and portal login trends.
IBM Lotus Extended Search
IBM Lotus Extended Search is a Web-based solution that supports searching across distributed, heterogeneous, structured, and unstructured data sources through a single point of access. Although it does not require you to create a central index for the sources that you want to search, Lotus Extended Search serves as a complimentary solution to products that provide indexing services.By entering a single request from a Web browser, you can search potentially thousands of data repositories and the Internet and, at the same time, locate people with expert knowledge. Lotus Extended Search handles the logistics that are required to access many diverse sources simultaneously without requiring you to know any details about the various search interfaces. It also produces a single, ranked result set that contains responses from multiple sources. Links in the result set enable you to go directly to documents of interest or download attachments.
Lotus Extended Search can search and retrieve documents from the following types of sources:
- 18 popular Web search sites and News sites
- Lotus repositories such as Notes databases, Domino.Doc libraries, and Lotus Team Workplace places
- Mail systems such as those managed by Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange
- Instant messaging systems such as Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing
- Relational databases such as DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL-Server, and other ODBC-compliant databases
- Document management systems such as IBM DB2 Information Integrator for Content (replaced by DB2 Information Integrator)
- File systems
- LDAP-compliant directories
- Full text indexes such as those that are created with WebSphere Portal, Domino Domain Index, Microsoft Index Server, and Microsoft Site Server.
With the Lotus Extended Search C++ and Java application programming interface (API), you can extend support to other types of sources that search, such as proprietary, commercial, or legacy databases in your enterprise that are not mentioned in the preceding list.
Additional products to use with WebSphere Portal
The following products are not included with WebSphere Portal, but they can enhance the features and functions that are provided.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business is an authorization and management solution that scales across the entire enterprise. A robust and secure policy management tool for e-business and distributed applications, it addresses the challenges of escalating security costs, growing complexity, and the need for uniform security policies across platforms. Tivoli Access Manager unites core security technologies around common security policies to help reduce implementation time and management complexity, thereby lowering the total cost of security-enhanced computing.
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator synchronizes identity data residing in directories, databases, collaborative systems, applications used for human resources (HR), customer relationship management (CRM), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other corporate applications.
By serving as a flexible, synchronization layer between a company's identity structure and the application sources of identity data, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator eliminates the need for a centralized datastore. For those enterprises who do choose to deploy an enterprise directory solution, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator can help ease the process by connecting to the identity data from the various repositories throughout the organization.
With some built-in connectors, an open-architecture Java development environment to extend or modify these connectors and tools to apply logic to data as data is processed, IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator can help you by:
- Synchronizing and exchanging information between applications or directory sources
- Managing data across a variety of repositories providing the consistent directory infrastructure needed for a wide variety of applications including security and provisioning
- Create the authoritative data spaces needed to expose only trustworthy data to advanced software applications such as Web services
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator is a component of the IBM identity management solution that can help you get users, systems and applications online and productive fast, reduce costs and maximize return on investment.
Product and component matrix
The following table shows the products and components that are packaged in each WebSphere Portal offering. You might have purchased only one of these offerings; however, all available WebSphere Portal offerings are shown for comparison purposes.
*Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing and Lotus Team Workplace are limited portal use only.
See also
Workplace Web Content Management is a trademark of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
WebSphere is a trademark of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
IBM is a trademark of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
Tivoli is a trademark of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
Rational is a trademark of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.