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An overview presentation (please note disclaimer at the beginning) about IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 - main features and benefits.
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IBM WebSphere Portal
© 2003 IBM Corporation
WebSphere Portal 6.1 Preview
IBM WebSphere Portal
© 2008 IBM Corporation2
Product release dates and/or capabilities referenced in these materials may change at any time at IBM’s sole discretion based on market opportunities or other factors, and are not intended to be a commitment to future product or feature availability in any way.
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Introducing WebSphere Portal 6.1
Deliver an irresistible user experience
Give power without losing control
Get up and running faster
Keep running with less effort
Leverage your investments
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Deliver an Irresistible User Experience
Turn your existing Portal Applications into “desktop like” applications
– Highly reactive user interface– Many actions possible without server roundtrips– Avoids page reloads
Improved performance and scalability– Reduced server side processing– Reduced bandwidth requirements – Reduced client-side processing– Improved cachability
Browser-side Aggregation, Navigation and Customization
– Renders XML obtained from the server in the browser– Implemented using AJAX, XML, Dojo, and JavaScript– Accesses and manipulates Portal through REST*
“Most existing Portlets benefit directly from Web2.0 rendering model without any changes.”
Gadgets
Atom / RSS Feeds
REST-accessible Markup Fragments
Portlets or other
WSRP Services
Client Side Aggregation
Get Desktop Performance in a Browser
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Deliver an Irresistible User Experience
Provides an interactive user experience
No programming needed, simply tag the markup (Microformats)
Supports web content from all places
Real World Examples
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>
<span class=“OrderItem“> 112001000001 </span>
Live Text – Give users quick in-place access to additional information
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Deliver an Irresistible User Experience
role-based
composite applications
in context
Community SOA Wiki Business Catalog forum > 3600 Assets in IBM SOA Business Catalog
Google Gadget Services > 4000 Applications and Utilities
Extends reach of rich internet services to role-based business centric composite applications for improved flexibility and responsiveness.
Easily incorporate Google Gadgets into Portal applications:
Search and select any Google Gadget
Customize to portlet
Leverages Portal’s Web 2.0 APIs support
Supports inter-portlet communication between Portal portlets and Google Gadget portlet instances.
IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets
Enterprise and internet
data and services
Enterprise and internet
data and services
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Give Power Without Losing Control
Combines several administrative actions into a single portlet: User enrollment Virtual Portal creation Portal content import
New Site Wizard quickly creates new customized Portal Sites
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Give Power Without Losing ControlBetter content authoring experience and enhanced content security model
Inherited security enables all sites and site areas to use the same security model
Simplified authoring templates are very useful for creating "quick" content (i.e. blogs)
Richer inline editing enables users to easily create folders, sites or site areas. Users can now perform most functions from the website itself (in context) rather than having to go through the central UI of WWCM
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Give Power Without Losing Control
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.
Theme Customizer - Easily change the look of a portal page - no HTML, JavaScript or XML coding required!
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Give Power Without Losing Control
Simplify creation of portal pages
Use HTML design tools and publish to WebSphere Portal
Enable your designers to create smart HTML pages using live text in WebSphere Portal
WebSphere Portal
Portlets
PortalNavigation
HTML Design tool
publish
Unleash the power of your web design teams
Unleash the power of your web design teams
HTML Page Support
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Get Up and Running Faster
Install Improvements– Faster OOB Install compared to previous releases (under 1 hour on most of platforms.)
– Multiple packaging options (Content, Server)
– Multiple installation options (Empty, Admin, Full)
– Improved OOB configuration defaults, OOB automation of common tune up steps
– Clustering automation to simplify building clusters.
– Portal file system assets will be split between read-only and read-write (Profiles)
– Clearer doc on out of box install, targeted to platform and db
Upgrade Improvements– Migrating from any previous release to 6.1 will see the following improvements:
• Simplified procedure (Improved automation for customizations and security)• Automatic redeployment of customer apps• Automatic migration of WAS settings.• Improved documentation
– In addition, customers migrating from v6.0 will see these additional enhancements• Near zero downtime migration (Re-use of DBs in place)
Making it easier to get to WebSphere Portal 6.1 installed and upgraded
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Updates to Rational Application Developer
RAD is still supported in version 6.0 and 6.1
– RAD is no longer entitled as of version 6.0
– The RAD Portal Toolkit is still entitled with RAD licenses
RAD Roadmap for Version 6.1
– June – RAD 7.0.0.7 – Support of Portal 6.0 projects on Portal 6.1
• Leverage existing 6.0 Feature set
– September – RAD 7.5 – Complete support for Portal 6.1 feature set and Portal 6.1 Test Environment
• New Features – Support for New Standard, CSA, Dojo etc
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Keep Running with Less Effort
StagingDevelopment ProductionIntegration
Reduce the effort to move portal pages, content
and their related artifacts
Support for multiple daily updates and publishing
whole sites
Version-able and Archive-able, Workflow pluggable
Return to a previous version very quickly
Validate that a publish occurred correctly
Improve management and readability of URLs
Site Management enables fast and flexible staging-to-production operations
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WSRP 1.0 + 2.0
Workload Distribution / Isolation – Remote Portlets
Portal Server 1(User Access)
Portal Users
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
Portlet Container
WSRP 1.0 + 2.0
Portlet Container
Portal Server 2(Portlet Server)
Portlet Container
WSRP 1.0
App Server 1(Portlet Server)
Keep Running with Less Effort
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Keep Running with Less Effort
ConfigurePortlet Request
Metrics and PMI metrics in the
WAS administration console (ISC).
By default all Portlet Monitoring
is disabled, use “custom” mode.
See how your Portal Site and Portlets perform while you build your site
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Keep Running with Less Effort
Application provided with the Beta release
Reduces effort to support WebSphere Portal and Express
Search for Q&A
Easily send log files and configuration data to IBM support
Reduce the communication effort and time to solve issues.
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/support/isa/
Support Assistant improves your ability to resolve software problems quickly
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Leverage Your Investments
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
Portlet Factory - New visual editing capability speeds portlet construction
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Leverage Your Investments
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
Web Application Integrator – Available on the Portlet Catalog Today
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Notes applications built
with Domino Designer
Portlet component builtwith Rational RAD
E-form built with Forms Designer
3270 and iSeries screens via HATS
WSRP Producer
Visual Studio Developed Apps with Mainsoft (IBM Partner)
Workplace Dashboard Framework
Component built with Portlet Factory
Leverage Your InvestmentsTremendous Flexibility and choice
role-based
composite applications
process driven
in context
services
Feeds Feeds Portlet CatalogPortlet Catalog
Gadgets and iWidgets
Gadgets and iWidgets
JSR 168WSRP v1.0
JSR 168WSRP v1.0
JSR 286WSRP v2.0
JSR 286WSRP v2.0
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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
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./WebSphere Portal 6.1 Beta already supports JSR286 and WSRP 2.0./
04.03.2008: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286
Leverage Your Investments
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WebSphere Portal 6.1 – Take a Closer Look
WebSphere Portal 6.1 is scheduled to ship in Mid Year 2008
Beta 3 is Available NOW
Thousands of existing and new customers have already taken advantage!
https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/wps61beta/
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