WebSphere Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1
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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. Table of 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 of choice, for example:

  • IBM® Rational® Application Developer

  • IBM Portal Toolkit

  • IBM WebSphere® Portlet Factory

Application components

Business analyst, application designer, application manager

Create templates, which integrate existing components. Templates are used to create composite applications.

IBM WebSphere Portal Express

  • Application Template Library

  • Application 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 will 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 already deployed components can be assembled into a template and instantiated from a template into a composite application.

IBM WebSphere Application Server Administrative 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.

IBM WebSphere Portal Express

  • Application Template Library

  • Application catalogs

  • Portlets for editing applications: Properties, Layout, and Roles.

Applications for individuals and teams

Business user of applications

Use personal and team applications and components for accomplishing business and community objectives.

IBM WebSphere Portal Express

Composite applications and their components

Business or community deliverables
Parent topic: Composite applications
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