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IBM WebSphere Portal
Deliver an Irresistible User Experience
Live Text – Give users quick in-place access to additional information
 Provides an interactive user experience
 No programming needed, simply tag the
markup (Microformats)
 Supports web content from all places
 Real World Examples
<span class=“OrderItem“> 112001000001 </span>
 Select a user name and..
 see the user profile, or email
address, or map their location
 Click on an order item and..
 see current delivery state
 check customer Account details
<span class=“locality“> Stuttgart </span>
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IBM WebSphere Portal
Deliver an Irresistible User Experience
IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets
Easily incorporate
Google Gadgets into
Portal applications:
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Search and select any
Google Gadget
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Customize to portlet
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Leverages Portal’s Web
2.0 APIs support
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Supports inter-portlet
communication between
Portal portlets and
Google Gadget portlet
instances.
composite applications
role-based
 Community SOA Wiki
 Business Catalog forum
 > 3600 Assets in IBM
SOA Business Catalog
in context
Extends reach of rich internet services
to role-based business centric
composite applications for improved
flexibility and responsiveness.
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Enterprise
and internet
data and
services
 Google Gadget Services
 > 4000 Applications and Utilities
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IBM WebSphere Portal
Give Power Without Losing Control
New Site Wizard quickly creates new customized Portal Sites
Combines several administrative actions into a single portlet:
 User enrollment
 Virtual Portal creation
 Portal content import
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Give Power Without Losing Control
Theme Customizer - Easily change the look of a portal page - no
HTML, JavaScript or XML coding required!
 Change the banner: logo, color,
typography, border, background
 Change the typography: default
size, color and style, headline size,
color, etc.
 Change the navigation: orientation,
tab colors, tab text
 Change the colors: page color or
background, highlight color
 Change the buttons: text, color,
selected and unselected states
 Show and hide footers, gutters,
links, breadcrumbs, etc.
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IBM WebSphere Portal
Keep Running with Less Effort
Workload Distribution / Isolation – Remote Portlets
Remote WSRP 2.0 Portlets participate in Context
• Optionally use multiple JVMs for running your Portal
• Isolate “untrusted” Portlets from Portal
• Execute Portlets in their own JVM
• Enhanced scalability for “heavy” Portlets
Portal Users
Portlet Container
Portlet Container
Portal Server 1
(User Access)
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App Server 1
(Portlet Server)
Portlet Container
Portal Server 2
(Portlet Server)
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IBM WebSphere Portal
Keep Running with Less Effort
See how your Portal Site and Portlets perform while you build your site
Configure
Portlet Request
Metrics and PMI
metrics in the
WAS
administration
console (ISC).
By default all
Portlet Monitoring
is disabled, use
“custom” mode.
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IBM WebSphere Portal
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Portlet Factory - New visual editing capability speeds portlet construction
 Easily preview how portlets will be
rendered on a portal page
 Better Debugging Support - Set break
points, watch variables, step through
code
 Simpler Builder Selection
– Recommended builders based on selection
– In context help and examples of when to use
builders
– Keyword search to find the right builder
– Favorites
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Web Application Integrator – Available on the Portlet Catalog Today
 Simplicity of iFrames without
the drawbacks – No double
header or dual navigation
 HTML <script> tag executes
and can “inject” markup for
portal navigation, launch menu,
and page breadcrumbs into
web app
 Clicking on any Portal specific
navigation tab will take you
back into Portal. Clicking on
any Portal URL page tab will hit
the underlying URL.
Any web application can display and make use of Portal navigation
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IBM WebSphere Portal
Leverage Your Investments
Portal Standards Leadership
 JSR 286 – Java™ Portlet Specification V2.0
 IBM is leading this JSR, all major Java technology portal
(commercial and open source) vendors represented in the EG
04.03.2008: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286
 Reference implementation will be provided at Apache Pluto 2.0
 TCK will be available for free (Will extend the JSR 168 TCK)
 Schedule: final around early March 2008 (final Draft published)
 Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) V2.0
 Standard protocol for accessing portlets as web service
 Defined at OASIS, chaired by IBM
 Schedule: final around early March 2008 (final Draft published)
 Common goals
 Enable coordination between portlets and allow building composite applications based on portlet
components (events and render context (e.g. public render parameters) )
 Allow for a better user experience using AJAX patterns, Serving resources
 WebSphere Portal seamlessly integrates JSR168, JSR286 and WSRP2.0 Portlets.
WebSphere Portal 6.1 Beta already supports JSR286 and WSRP 2.0./
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