Develop widgets with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
During the course of development, you use the WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer to create and run widgets locally. The following steps assume that you have a locally-installed IBM Lotus Mashups server. This is the recommended practice for rapid development of widgets. If you do not have a local mashup server, refer to Deployment for Production (see below) for information about how to generate a production WAR to deploy widgets to a remote mashup server using the IBM InfoSphere MashupHub. Developing widgets with WebSphere Portlet Factory consists of the following steps:
- Create and deploy the widgets functionality using the WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer. You can also create customized widget functionality with the Designer by profile-enabling builder inputs, as described in Overview: profiling.
Note: The following builders are not supported in Lotus Mashups.
Do not add any of these builders to your model if it is run in Lotus Mashups.
- Ajax Region
- Cooperative Portlet Source
- Cooperative Portlet Target
- Directory Search
- Lotus Forms Embed
- Lotus Forms Launch
- Lotus WCM Access
- People Awareness
- Portal Document Manager Access
- Portlet Adapter
- Portlet Customizer
- Web Service Enable
- WebSphere Portal Credential
- WebSphere Portal Link
- Run the widget models from the Designer to test them.
- Publish the widgets to the Lotus Mashups toolbox.
If you make additional changes to the widget models after you include the widgets in a mashup page, log out of the mashup server and log back in to see the effects of the changes on your widgets.
When you have finished developing and testing your widgets, build a production deployment WAR for your project. The project WAR can be deployed to the appropriate Lotus Mashups server through the InfoSphere MashupHub as described in Deployment for Production.
Parent topic: Introduction to widgets
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