Portal Toolkit
Overview
Portal Toolkit Version 5.0.2 allows you to setup a portlet development environment by plugging in to WebSphere Studio. Portal Toolkit provides:
- Portlet projects, in which you can create basic portlets based on the PortletAdapter class.
- WebSphere Portal configuration, with which you can publish your portlet application on your local WebSphere Portal or remote WebSphere Portal. Your portlet will appear on the debug page of your WebSphere Portal.
- Portlet application examples for enterprise applications.
Before using Portal Tookit, read about the development environment configurations and corresponding hardware and software requirements. After selecting your configuration, use one of the following resources to setup your development environment.
- To use the Portal Toolkit V5.0.2 with WebSphere Studio V5.1, see the Portal Toolkit Installation Guide, which is included with the Portal Toolkit download at...
http://www.ibm.com/websphere/portal/toolkit- To use Portal Toolkit V5.0.1 with WebSphere Studio V5.0.1:
- Install one of the supported WebSphere Studio products on the development machine.
- Install Portal Toolkit into WebSphere Studio.
- For the local debug configuration, WebSphere Portal is installed with Portal Toolkit.
- For the server attach configuration, WebSphere Portal is installed on a separate machine. See the WebSphere Portal installation instructions for complete information.
After Portal Toolkit is set up and running, you can learn more about developing portlets in this environment from the help menu (select Portlet developer information).
Portal Toolkit supports debugging portlets on WebSphere Portal Versions 4.2 and Version 5.0.2. However, portlet applications which are developed for WebSphere Portal V5.0 or V5.0.2 are not supported on WebSphere Portal V4.2.
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