IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Overview - Lotus

Deployment....................................................................................................................... 41Resources .......................................................................................................................... 42IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory overviewThis section provides a high-level overview of the key features of WebSphere PortletFactory and the underlying technology. It then walks through an example of how to usethis product to create a portlet.Product overviewWebSphere Portlet Factory is a powerful and flexible tool for rapidly building portlets ontop of a service-oriented architecture. Developers are able to quickly and easily leveragetheir company's core assets, automatically assembling them into custom, high-valueportlets. Portlets created with WebSphere Portlet Factory are dynamic, robust Java 2Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications that react automatically to change, and can befurther modified by business users in real time, to meet changing business requirementswithout requiring any coding, duplicating or versioning of assets. By eliminating the needto code all of these implementations and their variations, WebSphere Portlet Factorysimplifies the development, deployment, and change management process, savingcompanies time and money.The primary features of WebSphere Portlet Factory are as follows:• Multi-page custom portlets without coding. The WebSphere Portlet Factoryrapid application development (RAD) capabilities and ease of use enabledevelopers of all skill sets to create multi-page, complex portlets. Developersbuild portlets by defining a sequence of highly adaptive software componentscalled builders, which have an easy-to-use interface. Developers assemblebuilders into models, which then generate the application code. In this way,developers can capture and automate the process of building dynamic portlets,instead of explicitly coding each portlet.• Robust integration capabilities with enterprise applications and data.WebSphere Portlet Factory provides automatic integration with existingapplications and data including SAP, Lotus Domino, PeopleSoft, Siebel, WebServices, relational databases, and Excel. Developers can quickly createcomposite, high-value portlets that leverage existing investment in your existingapplications and data.• Automatic integration with WebSphere Portal. With WebSphere PortletFactory, you have direct integration with IBM WebSphere Portal features suchas portlet wiring, Click-to-Action, business user configuration, peopleawareness, WebSphere Portal groups, and the credential vault. Portlets aredeployed automatically to WebSphere Portal software.• Support for SOA development. WebSphere Portlet Factory provides powerfultechnology for speeding the creation of service-oriented applications andportlets. It includes data services builders along with data integration buildersthat together automate the process of creating services from systems such asSAP and Lotus Domino. This services approach provides a clean way toseparate the back end services of an application from the presentation layer. Italso automatically creates testing support for back end services, and it enablesfront end presentation development and testing without requiring a back endconnection.• Many portlet variations from a single code base. With the profiling capabilityof WebSphere Portlet Factory, developers can easily create multiple portletWebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.1 Getting Started Guide - 3 -