Achieve tighter integration between the WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content management

Portals and Web content management systems should be well coordinated

If you have used Ibm®lotus®web content Management and tried to render content using IBM websphere®portal, it may be difficult to decide where to define your site structure. So far, you have basically only two choices:

Define the site structure in the WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web content Management to replicate each WebSphere Por using the Lotus Web content Management site area that is newly created for the page Tal page.

Only one stub page is created in the WebSphere Portal, and the remaining tools are completed in the Lotus Web Content Management through the site area.

None of the top two options is perfect. In addition to being very monotonous and prone to errors, the first method requires that you place the Web content rendering portlet on each page and configure them to point to the current site zone. Creating links between different pages requires a large number of hard-coded customizations to be performed on each WEB content rendering portlet so that it can be assigned to the correct location. The second method is also imperfect. Because the WebSphere portal is no longer concerned with the navigation structure, the basic portal benefits are lost.

But don't despair! You can now have a fully integrated solution in which WebSphere Portal V6.1 can understand your Lotus Web content Management V6.1 content, and do not ask you to perform a hundreds of-click action to set up the site. The magic of this solution is the Web content page and the new Web content rendering Portlet.

Web content Page

The first step in achieving tighter integration between the Lotus Web content Management and the WebSphere Portal is to enable the WebSphere portal to perceive your Lotus Web content managemen T content. A Lotus Web content Management site area can now be connected to a portal page through the new Web Contents page. This new concept comes from the Lotus Web Content Management Rendering Portlet catalog shipment.

Here's how to link such a site area to a page in the UI:

In the WebSphere Portal, create a new Web content page from the Manage pages portlet (Figure 1).

Figure 1. The Manage pages portlet contains a new button to add Web Content pages