IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud

Build a comprehensive web portal for your company with a complete coverage of all the project lifecycle stages. The only book that explains the various phases in a complete portal project life cycle Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real time examples Take a deep dive into Portal architectural analysis, design and deployment Understand how profiling can be used to provide variability for customization, personalization and configuration of portlets and environments Master the main approaches for classifying, isolating and resolving portal problems via troubleshooting Instructions valid for Portal versions 7 and 8. In Detail IBM WebSphere® Portal is a cost-effective, scalable, and proven solution for the portal enterprise space. Given the depth and the breadth of WebSphere Portal and the challenges of developing a portal project, you need a book that covers all the nuances of the entire portal project lifecycle. This book accomplishes just that. In this book, we cover topics that range from portal assessment, governance, and architecture, to design and development. These topics are covered not only within these traditional areas, but also within the cloud environment context. Keeping both contexts in mind, several chapters are dedicated to portal and portlet testing, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, best practices, and tuning. The cloud option is also analyzed and discussed for hosting, developing, and publishing portal applications. We also cover Web Experience Factory (WEF) as the tool of choice for portlet development. We take you from the introduction to the development of advanced portlets in an intuitive and efficient manner. We cover not only common topics, such as builders, models, and user interface development, but also advanced topics, such as Dojo builders, Ajax techniques, and WEF performance. Within the WEF space, we cover other topics, which