Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Displaying data from external sources
You display data from external sources, such as SQL databases, using the same methods as you would when creating a Web site.
Display data
You can display content from external sources using standard Java tag libraries and a JSP element. Java code using standard Java APIs or tag libraries can be used to display and format data from databases, LDAP repositories, or send e-mail.
If using a rendering portlet to display Web content on a portal page, you can also use other IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express portlets on the same portal page to display data.
Web page aggregation
Content from external Web sites and IBM Workplace Web Content Management™ can be displayed together on a portal page by using standard WebSphere Portal portlets for displaying content from external Web sites. Please refer to the Web Page portlet and Web clipping portlet sections of this Information Center for information about creating and configuring these portlets.
This functionality is only available when displaying content in WebSphere Portal. These portlets are not accessible from the Web Content Management servlet, though standard Java API or tag libraries may be used with a JSP element to achieve the same result.