IBM Rational application Developer V7.5 Portal Toolkit, part 2nd

Features that support Web 2.0 portal development in IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1

Ibm®websphere®portal V6.1 introduces new features such as aggregation of clients, friendly URLs, and static page aggregation. The WebSphere Portal V6.1 also provides a new theme that contains WEB 2.0 based topics. Ibm®rational®application Developer V7.5 provides support for these new features. These features and tools are described in this article.

Rational application Developer and WebSphere Portal

Ibm®rational®application Developer V7.5 is part of the Ibm®rational®software Delivery Platform. It is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides all of these capabilities from a single workbench, providing a unified environment from design to build, test, and deploy. In turn, portal tool artifacts make portal site development and portal development faster and easier.

This article shows you the new features that help you design the Ibm®websphere®portal V6.1 portal. This article is concerned with the support features of the customization and editing features provided by WebSphere Server, including the following:

PORTALWEB2 Theme

Support for friendly URL features

This paper concludes by simply discussing the static page aggregation (SPA) tool support features provided by the Rational application Developer.

WEB 2.0 Theme Support

The Rational application Developer enables you to edit the structure, settings, and artifacts of your portal project. The portal project stores the portal configuration in the XML file of the Portalconfiguration folder, and the Web artifacts are stored in the Portalcontent folder. You can use Portalconfiguration to edit the XML file and edit the Web artifacts using the Theme editor. This article also involves PORTALWEB2 topic editing, which is the WEB 2.0 based theme provided by the WebSphere Portal.

The portal tools in the Rational application Developer provide tool support for editing the new features provided by the WebSphere Portal. Users can create their own topics based on these topics. The two basic topics supported by the WebSphere Portal tool and provided by the portal Server are portal and PORTALWEB2.

Introduction to Topics

The two main topics covered in this article are the Portal theme and the PORTALWEB2 theme.

Portal Theme

The portal theme in the WebSphere portal is the new façade portal, which is based on the traditional Java™server Pages (JSP) client aggregation theme.

The portal theme is a traditional JSP based theme that replaces the IBM theme in the WebSphere portal.