Creating portal projects
Rational Developer provides two wizards to help you create a portal project: Import (recommended) and New Portal Project.
The recommended method is to import the existing Portal site configuration and files from your WebSphere Portal server into a Rational Developer portal project so that you can begin working with the most current configuration.
If you are a designer who simply wants to create a portal site to customize its themes and skins, use the New Portal Project wizard.
Note that the portal project you create with the New Portal Project wizard will contain the following:
- Portal standard themes
- Portal standard skins
- Labels: "MyPortal" and "Label 1"
- Pages: "Page 1"
- NO portlet definitions
To begin working with a portal project, use one of the following methods: