Install for development

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IBM Rational Application Developer V6.0 includes tools designed to help you develop portlet applications for WebSphere Portal. The portlet tools provide the following capabilities:

• Portlet project support for the IBM portlet API and the JSR 168 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, read the Installation scenarios to determine which configuration best suits your requirements. See the Application Developer documentation for complete installation and configuration instructions on installing WebSphere Portal for use with Application Developer.

 

See also

• Installation scenarios

• Rational Application Developer Web page

 

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