Work with composite applications
A composite application is a collection of components that address a business need for a particular group of users. The collection of business components provides predefined meta-data and content that supports integrated business capabilities for personal and team productivity. The integration of information from multiple business components provides application users with content specifically geared to their business roles and tasks.
For example, the business components in a composite application might include a people finder, a document library, a project team room, and personal information management components such as mail, calendar, and address book. Assembled from templates and deployed using services such as personalization, collaboration, and search, composite applications can be reused and customized for flexible quick start to projects without reliance on administrator support.
Application templates are intended for personnel in a business unit of the enterprise who understand the business model and business processes. Application templates promote the rapid assembly and reuse of composite applications. Business analysts and application designers can create and manage templates for composite applications. Application managers and business users can create composite applications from templates and, when appropriate, save new applications as templates for reuse by other users.
From the product banner, click Applications -> Templates to display the Welcome page and two additional pages, Template Library and Application Library.
- Use the Template Library to view, create, and manage templates for composite applications.
- Use the Application Library to view, create, and manage instances of composite applications that have been assembled from templates.
Restriction: The Application Template Library and Applications catalog portlets are not supported as Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP).
Review the Composite Applications Tuning scenarios in the WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management 6.1.x Performance Tuning Guide to learn how to improve composite application infrastructure performance. This is particularly important when you have a large number of applications with many pages and portlets.
<a href="http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Tuning_composite_applications_%28Tuning_Guide_6.1.x%29" target="external">Composite Applications Tuning scenarios</a><img src="../external.gif">
- Users, tasks, and tools for composite applications
- Configure mail service
- Work with application templates
- Work with applications
- Work with policies for composite applications
- Composite application concepts
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AdministeringRelated tasks
Add composite application pages and portlets to a base installation