WPF v6.1 - What's new in this release
Builders
The following are new builders in this release.
- REST Service Enable builder
- Theme builder
- Widget Adapter builder
- Widget Customizer builder
- Widget Event builder
The following builders support new features.
- Data Column Modifier
- New inputs in the Advanced group let you specify the names of variables that are generated. These inputs can be used if the default generated names are unsatisfactory. Also, a new option on the Heading column (Do Not Change) tells the builder not to set the column heading so that the value from the rich data definition (RDD) file can be used.
- Data Page, Input Form, View & Form
- The Use Theme input is available to support themes for HTML templates, style sheets, and base pages.
- Directory Search
- New inputs let you specify XML data source elements, remove duplicates, and supply the URL of a custom base HTML page.
- Dojo Inline Edit
- New inputs let you specify support arguments when Submit Form is used.
- Portlet Adapter
- New inputs support Java Standard 2.0 public render parameters and a helper LJO is created to let you obtain information about the portlet render request attributes.
- REST Service Call
- New inputs support basic authentication.
The following builders are deprecated in this release.
- Logging Category
- Page Encoding
User experience
The following features have been added to WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer.
- Theme support for HTML templates, style sheets, and base pages
- You can use a project theme file to control in one central place the HTML templates, style sheets, and base pages for the user interface in your application. A new property (bowstreet.themeFile) in the cluster.properties file lets you change the default theme file. A new builder (Theme) lets you override the default theme property for all builders in a model.
- Model comparison
- You can use the Eclipse compare editor to compare models in your project.
- New popup menu commands
- In the Design View and Application Tree, the popup menu can show the Export HTML and Export Resource Bundle to let you create an HTML page or a resource bundle.
- Project creation
- When you create a project, the wizard lets you add a folder in the project to store user-defined files.
- Deployment
- You can specify IBM Lotus® Mashups as a deployment target for iWidget applications.
- Debugging
- You can use the builderCallTiming property in the log4j.properties file to analyze the time that builders take during regeneration.
Installation
Eclipse 3.4.1 is included in the installer.
Parent topic: Overview of IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
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