Set up the development environment
IBM® Rational® Application Developer includes tools designed
to help you develop portlet applications for WebSphere Portal Express.
The portlet tools provide the following capabilities:
- Portlet project support for the standard portlet API and the IBM portlet
API.
- Web perspective views and editors for developing portlets.
- Portlet project wizard to create basic portlets, Faces portlets, and Struts
portlets.
- Editing and validation of the portlet deployment descriptor (portlet.xml).
- Testing and debugging of portlets within the workbench using the WebSphere
Portal Test Environment.
- Testing and debugging of portlets on a remote machine using the WebSphere
Portal Server Attach.
- Visual tooling to insert portlet programming objects into JSP files, using
Page Designer.
- Portlet sample applications, available in the Samples Gallery.
- Educational tutorials, available in the Tutorials Gallery.
Before using Rational Application Developer, determine
which configuration best suits your requirements. See the Rational
Application Developer documentation
for complete installation and configuration instructions on installing WebSphere Portal Express for use with Rational
Application Developer.
Portlet Factory: Its features include:
- Tight Integration with WebSphere Portal Express (auto
deploy portlets, Click-2-Action, People Awareness, SSO).
- Plug-in to Eclipse and IBM Rational Application Developer.
- Multi-page, complex portlets without coding.
- SOA delivery/robust integration capabilities with existing applications.
- Unlimited customization without the maintenance overhead.
- Business user configuration.
- Rapid iteration and change.
- Flexible deployment options.
Related information
Parent topic: Understanding the basics
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