Portlet Factory, Version 6.1.2
Development of a WebSphere portlet
You use IBM® WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer to develop the portlet functionality. WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer includes several builders useful in developing portlets for IBM WebSphere Portal server in addition to the more general builders used for J2EE application development. These builders include:
- Portlet Adapter
- Adding this builder call to a model allows you to define portlet information such as a name and description as well as specifying the HTML pages or WebSphere Portlet Factory models to be used when the user configures or edits the portlet.
- Cooperative Portlet Source
- Adding this builder call to a model lets you create portlets that can communicate with one another. With the Cooperative Portlet Target builder to define events and with Event Handler builder to associate actions with events, you establish an environment for communicating between portlets. Cooperation between source and target portlets is facilitated by the WebSphere Portal runtime entity called the Property Broker.
- Portlet Customizer
- Adding this builder call to a model allows you to quickly create custom Configure and Edit models for a particular portlet, providing the portal you are using supports these features.
Parent topic: Introduction to portlets
- Summary of development steps
In summary, developing a portlet with the IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory consists of these general steps:
- Development of a WebSphere JSR 168 portlet
To limit yourself to the functionality defined in JSR 168, you cannot use features specific to IBM WebSphere Portal server, such as Click-to-Action (C2A) or People Awareness.
- Development of portlets
You can develop IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory models to be run as portlets.
- Configuring the Portlet Adapter builder call
You can expose profiled inputs in the model by setting the behavior for the profile set that contains them in the model's Portlet Adapter builder call.
- About building a portlet WAR file
If you have a portal server deployment configuration defined and associated with the project, the Portal Server WAR command is available on the project context menu.
- Rebuilding application server WAR files
For application development, developers sometimes need to completely rebuild the WAR.
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