Portal Toolkit development
IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) includes portlet application development tools that provide the following capabilities:
- Portlet project support for the standard portlet API and the IBM portlet API.
- Web perspective views and editors for developing portlets.
- Portlet project wizard to create basic portlets, Faces portlets, and Struts portlets.
- Editing and validation of the portlet deployment descriptor (portlet.xml).
- Testing and debugging of portlets within the workbench using the WebSphere Portal Test Environment.
- Testing and debugging of portlets on a remote machine using the WebSphere Portal Server Attach.
- Visual tooling to insert portlet programming objects into JSP files, using Page Designer.
- Portlet sample applications, available in the Samples Gallery.
- Educational tutorials, available in the Tutorials Gallery.
Before using RAD, read the Installing and configuring to determine which configuration best suits the requirements. See the RAD documentation for complete installation and configuration instructions on installing WebSphere Portal for use with RAD. IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory provides a way to build portlets. This Eclipse-based development tool speeds and simplifies portlet construction by making it easy to create complex portlets without coding. Its features include:
- Tight Integration with WebSphere Portal (auto deploy portlets, Click-2-Action, People Awareness, SSO).
- Plug-in to Eclipse and IBM RAD.
- Multi-page, complex portlets without coding.
- SOA delivery/robust integration capabilities with existing applications.
- Unlimited customization without the maintenance overhead.
- Business user configuration.
- Rapid iteration and change.
- Flexible deployment options.
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