Time required

To complete this tutorial, you will need approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. If you decide to explore other facets of portlet APIs while working on the tutorial, it could take longer to finish.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this tutorial end to end, you should be familiar with the following concepts:

• Basic Java programming
• JSP file coding

Learning objectives

This tutorial examines the differences between the IBM portlet API and the JSR 168 portlet API. The tutorial is divided into several exercises. In the first exercise, you will import sample portlets from the Samples Gallery (Help > Samples Gallery). Other exercises discuss the details of the two portlet APIs, using the sample portlets as examples. While completing the exercises, you will learn how the two APIs differ in the following ways:

• Portlet class instances and data
• Java class coding
• Deployment descriptors
• JSP file coding

This tutorial consists of the following exercises:

• Exercise 1.1 shows you how to import the resources.
• Exercise 1.2 explains the conceptual differences between the APIs.
• Exercise 1.3 compares the Java class coding differences between the APIs.
• Exercise 1.4 compares the deployment descriptor differences between the APIs.
• Exercise 1.5 compares the JSP file coding differences between the APIs.
• Exercise 1.6 explains how to select which API to use.
• Exercise 1.7 shows screen captures of the view and edit JSP files used in the bookmark samples.

When you are ready, begin Exercise 1.1: Importing the resources