Enable Lotus Collaborative Components

Lotus Collaborative Components provide the building blocks for integrating the functionality of Lotus Domino, Lotus Sametime, Lotus QuickPlace, and Lotus Discovery Server into portals and portlets. To use Lotus Collaborative Components, use the Lotus companion products (Lotus Sametime, Lotus QuickPlace, and Lotus Discovery Server). In addition, you can configure Lotus Collaborative Components to use Domino Directory as the LDAP server.

Use the IBM Web Administration for iSeries Create WebSphere Portal wizard when configuring WebSphere Portal instances. The wizard creates the necessary servers (HTTP and WebSphere Application Server), configures the server for Portal, configures the database for Portal, configures security (LDAP) for Portal, and deploys the portlets installed with the WebSphere Portal product. You can edit the Portal instance configuration manually after you have used the WebSphere Portal wizard.

Use the following topics to navigate through the information and instructions that are provided.

Overview of steps to plan, install, and configure Lotus Collaborative Components

  1. Review Collaboration to learn more about the collaborative features that you can use with WebSphere Portal. Details about the interaction between the Lotus collaborative portlets, Lotus companion products, and Lotus Collaborative Components are provided.

  2. Read Planning to review considerations for installing and configuring products that you can use with Lotus Collaborative Components.

  3. Install the supported software by choosing the appropriate instructions from Install software to use with Lotus Collaborative Components.

  4. Configure Lotus Collaborative Components to use Domino Directory or configure WebSphere Portal to use the Lotus companion products by choosing the appropriate instructions from Configure Lotus Collaborative Components.

  5. Deploy the portlets. Refer to Deploying Lotus collaborative portlets.

  6. Refer to Troubleshooting Lotus companion products if you have any problems.

 

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