Users, tasks, and tools

Preview how users in your enterprise might use various tools to perform tasks for delivering composite applications, application components, and application templates.

The following table summarizes, for each type of user, the tasks performed and the tools used in creating, customizing, deploying, and managing application templates and composite applications for business users.

Table 1. Composite Application Users, Tasks, Tools, and Deliverables. Composite application users, the tasks they perform with available tools, and the deliverables that result from their work.

Users	Tasks	Tools	Deliverables
Component developer	Develop components, which can be integrated into applications and templates.	Any application development tool of choice, for example: IBM Rational Application Developer IBM Portal Toolkit WebSphere Portlet Factory	Application components
Business analyst, application designer, application manager	Create templates, which integrate existing components. Templates are used to create composite applications.	WebSphere Portal Application Template Library Applications catalog Portlets for editing templates and applications: Properties, Layout, Parameters, and Roles.	Application templates Composite applications
User interface designer	Work with the developers to design the application content and page layouts that the templates define for composite applications.	Portlets for editing templates and applications: Properties, Layout, Parameters, and Roles.	Application templates Composite applications
Deployer	Deploy the appropriate EAR and WAR files of the components, needed by application templates. Only the components already deployed can be assembled into a template and instantiated from a template into a composite application.	admin console	Available components for use with application templates and composite applications
Application owner May be a business analyst, application designer, or application manager.	Create composite application instances from application templates. May also create application templates. Create and manage policies for composite applications. This responsibility might be shared with, or owned by, the portal administrator.	WebSphere Portal Application Template Library Applications catalog Portlets for editing applications: Properties, Layout, and Roles.	Applications for individuals and teams Policies for applications
Business user of applications	Use personal and team applications and components for accomplishing business and community objectives.	WebSphere Portal Composite applications and their components	Business or community deliverables

Parent topic:

Assembling composite applications

Related concepts

User access to templates and applications

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