Portal projects

A portal project is the collection of files that you work with in Rational Developer to edit both the structural and stylistic framework of your portal.

The basic elements of your project are listed below. For information on getting started with portal projects, refer to Creating portal projects.

 

Project name

The name that you give your project is also the name of the project folder that will appear in the Dynamic Web Projects folder within the Project Explorer view.

Within your root project folder, you see a file named Portal Configuration. Double-click this file to edit the layout of your portal project. For more information, refer to Defining layouts.

 

Server type

When creating a new portal project, choose WebSphere Portal v5.0 Server for the server type. This is the only server type that Rational Developer v6.0 currently supports.

 

Default theme

The default theme provides the overall look and feel for your portal project. As you work in your portal project, you can change the default theme. If you do decide to change the default theme, the change will cascade down to any labels and pages within your portal project that do not already have a theme assigned.

Within your portal project folder, theme-specific files appear in the Dynamic Web Projects > [project_name] > Themes folder. Double-clicking any one of the theme icons in this folder opens its default.jsp file in Page Designer. This is where you can make changes to the look and feel of your theme.

For more information, refer to Working with themes.

 

Default skin

Ideally, each theme has a default skin. Unless you specify otherwise, the default skin for the current theme is the skin that will appear around each portlet that you insert into a portal page. If you decide to change the default theme for your portal project, the default skin will change along with it.

Within your portal project directory, skin specific files appear in the Dynamic Web Projects > [project_name] > Skins folder. Double-clicking any one of the skin icons in this folder opens its control.jsp file in Page Designer. This is where you can edit the properties of each skin.

For more information, refer to Working with skins.