Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Migrate your customized resources
Some migration steps are optional depending on what customized resources you had in your previous version of IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express. You only need to migrate those resources that are relevant to your environment.
Choose the following relevant customized resources to migrate:
- Migrating themes: Migrate the themes and skins if you want to use new functionality with your existing themes and skins
- Recreate your Global Settings and Portal service configuration
- Migrate portlets you created using one of the following two methods:
- Option 1
- Copy the .war files into the portal_server_root/installableApps directory
- Option 2
- For predeployed portlets, install the applications to the WebSphere Application Server server and then register them with the WebSphere Portal Express;
see Deploying J2EE resources with portlet application WAR files for information about deploying portlets
When choosing this method do not copy the .war files into the portal_server_root/installableApps directory.
- Migrating cooperative portlets that use IBM Portlet API
The term cooperative portlets refers to the capability of portlets on a page to interact with each other by sharing information. One or more cooperative portlets on a portal page can automatically react to changes from a source portlet triggered by an action or event in the source portlet. Portlets that are targets of the event can react so that users are not required to make repetitive changes or actions in other portlets on the page. This provides a coordinated and consistent behavior between the portlets on the page and enhances users' overall experience. Cooperation between source and target portlets is facilitated by a WebSphere Portal Express runtime entity called the property broker. Portlets on a page can cooperate in this way even if they were developed independently, without the programmer's awareness of the existence of the other cooperative portlets. - Migrating portlets built with Struts Portlet Framework
- Migrating Portal Search between portal versions
These topics describe tasks that you have to perform to migrate the portal search between portal versions.
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Preparing your previous environment for migration