Additional resources for planning


Use the following links to find relevant supplemental information. The information resides on IBM and non-IBM Internet sites, whose sponsors control the technical accuracy of the information.

These links are provided for convenience. Sometimes, the information is not specific to the WebSphere Portal product, but is useful all or in part for understanding the product. When possible, links are provided to technical papers and IBM Redbooks that supplement the broad coverage of the release documentation with in-depth examinations of particular product areas.

  • Guide to WebSphere Portal

    http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/vadd-bin/ftpdl?1/vadc/wsdd/pdf/portal5whitepaper.pdf

    This document provides an overview of the WebSphere Portal product technology, including its business and technical benefits. It is intended to help customers, independent software vendors, and application architects understand and plan their use of WebSphere Portal. Concepts such as portlets, portal applications, content, security, user management, administration, collaboration, and more are described, including highlights of related products that can be used with WebSphere Portal.

  • WebSphere Product Family Overview and Architecture, SG24-6963-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246963.html?Open

    This IBM Redbook is intended to help you understand the products that make up the WebSphere family. The first chapter discusses IBM's on-demand strategy. The next chapter gives you a big-picture overview of the WebSphere product family and how the products inter-relate. Subsequent chapters discuss individual products or product families in more detail.

  • IBM WebSphere software platform home page

    http://www.ibm.com/softwa../WAS51/

    The IBM WebSphere software platform home page introduces WebSphere products and describes how companies can easily transform to an e-business, with software that can grow as fast as the business it supports.

  • developerWorks: IBM Patterns for e-business

    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/patterns/index.html

    The IBM developerWorks site is the source for IBM patterns for e-business, a set of tested, reusable intellectual assets that you can use to design and implement your e-business network and architecture.

  • WebSphere Portal Collaborative Components, REDP0319

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/redp0319.html

    This IBM Redbook discusses the collaborative capabilities that are included within the WebSphere Portal offering. It covers:

    - An introduction to the WebSphere Portal Family and the concept of collaborative portlets

    - Installation- and deployment-oriented topics for getting a collaborative WebSphere Portal environment up and running

    - Details around the Collaborative Portlets available out-of-the-box with WebSphere Portal

    - Details and best practices for the usage of the Collaborative Components API available with Portal - including several sample collaborative Portlets that leverage this API.

  • Enterprise Business Portals II with Tivoli Access Manager, SG24-6556-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/c2c8b29bfd41ec8c85256c22006e7655?OpenDocument

    This IBM Redbook describes how to build an integrated enterprise business portal with Tivoli Access Manager V4.1, WebSphere Portal V4.1.2, mySAP Workplace, and the SAP Enterprise Portal. It also describes how to implement a federated single signon solution within a Web Services scenario.

  • A Secure Portal using WebSphere Portal V5 and Tivoli Access Manager, SG24-6077-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/3d96ba9fea9a252985256d6e0064f0f7?OpenDocument

    The focus of this publication is the security aspect of the WebSphere Portal single access point with centralized authentication and authorization. Other aspects of security like auditing, firewall, and DMZ are not in the scope of this document.

  • Integrating Host Applications with e-business Portals, REDP0191

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/redp0191.html

    This IBM Redbook helps you integrate existing host enterprise applications so that they can be accessed from portlets using the WebSphere Portal product.

  • Access Integration Pattern using IBM WebSphere Portal Server, SG24-6267-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246267.html

    This IBM Redbook provides an example and guidelines for the Access Integration pattern. It shows how the pattern works and documents the tasks required to build an example of it.

    - Part 1 of the redbook guides you through the process of choosing an application and run-time pattern to deliver the desired functionality of the Access Integration pattern.

    - Part 2 of the redbook provides a set of guidelines for building your portal application, including discussion of application design, application development and systems management.

    - Part 3 of the redbook demonstrates how to portalize an existing application and develop personalized portlets. The sample uses LDAP for external authentication and WebSphere Security for authorization.

  • Deploying Lotus Team Workplace, SG24-6535-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246535.html

    This IBM Redbook shows you how to install, configure, and deploy Lotus Team Workplace in your organization. It gives step-by-step installation instructions for the Lotus Team Workplace server and describes how to configure it to use the current directories of your organization.

  • IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.1 System Management and Configuration WebSphere Handbook Series, SG24-6195-01

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246195.html

    This IBM Redbook provides the knowledge needed to implement a WebSphere Application Server V5.1 Network Deployment runtime environment, to package and deploy Web applications, and to perform ongoing management of the WebSphere environment. It is one in a series of handbooks designed to give you in-depth information on the entire range of WebSphere Application Server products.

  • IBM WebSphere V5.0 Security WebSphere Handbook Series, SG24-6573-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/d630ec33fde5486785256b5f007ecac5?OpenDocument

    This IBM Redbook describes how to design, develop, and deploy secure e-business applications using WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5. It includes a detailed overview of WebSphere Application Server V5 Security, including J2EE security, modules and components of a J2EE enterprise application, and programmatic security techniques. It also describes end-to-end security solutions where WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5 is part of an enterprise solution, including including integration between WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5 and Tivoli Access Manager .

  • Working with the Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Client Toolkits, SG24-6666-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65f/f2b73cdd644ac8a485256acc005ca7c7?OpenDocument

    This IBM Redbook is for developers and architects who want to use Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing functionality in applications based on Java, C++, COM, or HTML and JavaScript. It explores capabilities offered by the different Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing client toolkits, which you can use to add functionality to existing applications and to create powerful new applications that enable real-time collaboration. It discusses event-based programming, Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing services, and the Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Place architecture.

  • WebSphere Portal Server and DB2 Information Integrator: A Synergistic Solution, SG24-6433-00

    http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246433.html

    This IBM Redbook provides examples of the synergy between WebSphere Portal Server and DB2 Information Integrator in delivering portal solutions, and will include sample portlets exploiting SQL, UDFs, JDBC, and Web Services.

 

See also

 

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