IBM WebSphere Portal MADE FOR SUPERHEROES LITTLE INFO ABOUT US WHO’S THIS GUY? I’m the Portal & Social Engineer @ IBIZZ / Optis Thomas Van Driessche @ThomasVD      Started in 2009 (01-08) IBM Portal & Social Engineer Making IBM products more consumable Living between Ghent & Antwerp Born 28-06-1988 LITTLE INFO ABOUT US WHO’S THIS GUY? I’m a Portal Developer @ IBIZZ / Optis Dimitri Mestdagh @g00glen00b      Started in 2012 (01-07) Portal developer Develop kickass portlets for customers Living near Antwerp Born 08-12-1989 LITTLE INFO AGENDA  Why this session  What is a portal  Different features  When do you need a portal  Architecture  What are portlets  Portlet modes  Portlet preferences  Portlet execution phase  Portlet vs spring  Demo LITTLE INFO WHY? 1 Collaboration and Social is getting mo Important 2 Give your business that personalized of access to your information, expertis 3 Exceptional web experience across m Channels WebSphere Portal WHAT? content manageme nt Single Sign On Customiz ation & theming Search capabilities portlets Personaliza tion WebSphere Portal WHAT? WebSphere Portal customization Create your own theme  Copy static resources for your theme  Copy static resources for your skin  Copy dynamic resources for your theme  Link the static resources to the dynamic resources in your theme  Build an EAR file containing all your resources WebSphere Portal personalization Different components  Personalization browser – user interface  Register resource collections  Authors rules, campaigns, and content spots  Maps rules into content spots  Rules engine – executes rules  LikeMinds Recommendations – engine  Resource engine – resolves the queries produced by rules into content pieces WebSphere Portal personalization Different types  Simple filtering  based on predefined groups of site visitors  Rules engines  set of business rules to decide what category of content to show  Collaborative filtering  Rate a selection of products, compare  Compare ratings with ratings from other visitors WebSphere Portal Single Sign On Single Sing On  Necessary to use the real force of the product  Integration with other IBM products  User repository WebSphere Portal example WebSphere Portal example WebSphere Portal WHEN? When will the portal be needed  Evade an overload on information (personalization)  Locate information quickly  Central place for your services and applications  Improve user-friendliness  Channel relevant information resources and many services to different users Portal architecture Portlets what What are portlets  Portlets are components designed to be aggregated into a portal or portals  JSR-286 standard  Aware of portal context  Package in a war file Portlets different modes Display different user interface  View – normal mode of a portal, displayed on initial load  Edit – customize the portlet  Help – more information about { the portlet Custom modes edit defaults – list of settings to personalize default behavior  Config – global configuration, same for each instance of the portlet Portlets preferences Store customized information  Personalized – single user  Shared – portlet instance on a page  Administrator – portlet definition Portlets execution 2 phases instead of 1  Action – user interaction  Render– after possible action phase Portlets spring What is spring Spring portlet MVC  Popular java framework  Adaption of web MVC  Inversion of control  PortletRequest & PortletResponse  Extensions (validation, batch, …)  Spring web MVC  Aspect oriented programming  Bridge, mappings, resolvers demo  Marvel portlets  Dive in the portlet code  Visibility Rule  Give you an idea of how theming is done Resources  Marvel portlet code:  https://bitbucket.org/g00glen00b/springmarvel-portlet  WebSphere Portal 8 wiki:  http://www10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer. xsp?lookupName=IBM+WebSphere+Portal+ 8+Product+Documentation#action=openDoc ument&content=catcontent&ct=prodDoc  Developer marvel:  http://developer.marvel.com  Twitter bootstrap:  http://getbootstrap.com Contact Thomas Van Driessche Dimitri Mestdagh @ThomasVD @g00glen00b ps://www.linkedin.com/in/vandriesschethomas https://www.linkedin.com/in/g00glen00b Thomas.vandriessche@optis.be Dimitri.Mestdagh@optis.be