Developing

Develop for IBM WebSphere Portal includes developing portlets, extending the applications provided with the portal, and more. WebSphere Portal includes Web Experience Factory to help start developing quickly. We can also use IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer.

• Set up a development server
  This scenario is intended for developers setting up a dev environment. This installation path is intended to provide a simple configuration with all the needed components on one server. The instructions for this single-server configuration are Windows specific and uses the out-of-the box Apache Derby database. Security is configured as the default federated repository with a built-in file repository.
• Change to developer mode
  Developer mode allows us to develop portals and portlets within an environment that has improved start up performance.
• Dojo and WebSphere Portal
  WebSphere Portal contains an instance of the IBM Dojo Toolkit, a JavaScript library based on the Dojo toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org). When developing components that use Dojo, you must be aware of the way in which the portal uses Dojo, as well as tips and restrictions when using Dojo.
• Develop portlets
  Get an overview of the process of creating portlets, learn about the concepts of the APIs used to develop portlets, and view the samples to get you started. Also, learn about integrating features such as single sign-on, cooperative sharing of information using the property broker, and migrating Struts applications to the portlet environment.
• Extending tagging and rating using service APIs
  Developers can enhance and extend the tagging and rating features of the portal. For this purpose the portal tagging and rating feature provides service APIs used to enhance tagging and rating by the requirements.