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 with this book and ebook.

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eBook Sep 2012 474 pages 1st Edition

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eBook Sep 2012 474 pages 1st Edition

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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.

Description

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 have never been covered before by any other competing book. You will learn how to develop multichannel applications, including web mobile applications and you will learn about the model types available for portlet development, including when and how to utilize them. We also present and discuss numerous aspects and facets of implementing a WEF project and what it takes to successfully deliver them. The richness and the profundity of the topics combined with an intuitive and well-structured presentation of the chapters will provide you with all the information you need to master your skills with the IBM WebSphere Portal project lifecycle and Web Experience Factory.

Who is this book for?

This book is written for any professional involved with a portal project. Professionals performing roles ranging from project and product management, program director, and architects to any lead role, will benefit from the project related segment of this book. The segment related to Portlet Development will benefit mostly portal developers and architects. Only this section requires some basic knowledge of IBM WebSphere Portal.

What you will learn

Master best practices in building portal environments for high availability
Explore Cloud topics as another paradigm for hosting, developing and publishing portal applications
Develop Portlets and multichannel applications utilizing WEF
Understand the performance benefits of using Dojo and Ajax in WebSphere Portal 7.0 and 8.0
Master how profiling can be used to provide variability for customization, personalization and configuration of portlets and environments
Understand the different model types available to WEF developers and learn how to choose the right ones for your portlets
Learn how to create web applications to run on iPhone and other mobile devices

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Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

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Dan Oct 29, 2012

I was looking for a book around newer version of portal. I must say I was very surprised with the approach the book takes on the whole project life cycle which made me thing more about other items I normally would leave to other people to worry about. It is not like any other usual book covering portal and going straight into API. Moving now to be a lead in my team this was precisely what I was looking for to broaden my views. I liked it because the way it provides samples, illustrations and lots of links to other resources. It came in at a good time when I was assigned to a major project and wanted to make sure I stayed on top. Very useful in simple writing. The cloud samples were enough to get me started thinking in those terms ...

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CR Dec 11, 2012

I was looking for a book on IBM WebSphere Portal 8 sometime back. I came across this book. This book describes the Hands on experience on IBM WebSphere Portal 8. With the release of WebSphere Portal 8, IBM recently added a newer member in WebSphere Portal Family.As I am PRO in WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Management, I found this book very helpful. This book have configurations and code which would help anyone who is looking forward to implement or migrate portal application in the industry. I would surely recommend this book to all who wants to checkout WebSphere Portal 8 and WEF cloud.Thanks & Regards,Chirag RanaIBM WebSphere Portal and WCM SpecialistPortal Lovers visit my blog:[...]

Yixing Nov 04, 2012

One year ago, I learned that the authors were preparing this book. A few weeks ago, I was excited to find out that this book was published. In the past ten years, I have read many articles and books on IBM WebSphere Portal. Thus I was very interested in reading this book to see what distinguishes it from other books on this topic. After reading through this book, I have found the following features that make this book particularly outstanding among those books on IBM WebSphere Portal.First of all, the contents of this book are quite comprehensive. Following the life cycle of a portal project, this book starts from the initial portal assessment, and then it goes through each phase of that portal project life cycle until the portal application monitoring and performance tuning. In each phase, the main activities for developing a portal application are presented and described. This book also uses a sample project to illustrate these activities and present those contents precisely and concretely. At the same time, this book introduces the cloud in the context of portal and a mobile portal application to make the contents up-to-date.Next, the authors present these contents from a practitioner's point of view. This book is not intended to introduce the portal theory and the IBM WebSphere Portal product only. It takes the readers as portal project practitioners and leads them to know what they should do and how they should do to complete those activities at each phase of a portal project in order to complete a portal project successfylly. These what's and how's are a summary of authors' rich experiences that are accumulated from leading many portal projects to great successes, and the lessons they have learned from some difficult portal projects in the past many years. These experiences are of great value to portal practitioners.Thirdly, this book presented in a holistic way the IBM Web Experience Factory tool while introducing IBM WebSphere Portal. There are several different tools one can use to develop portlets such as the Rational Application Developer. Since many clients are also interested in developing portlets using the IBM Web Experience Factory tool, this book has several chapters that describe the details on how to develop an end-to-end portal application using this tool.Although IBM WebSphere Portal is not new to many portal practitioners, it remains a challenging task to develop a portal application for clients, and most companies are not able to afford such difficulties during portal projects. Therefore, no matter what role you play in a portal project, either as a portal architect, portal developer or a portal project manager, I recommend you to have a copy of this book at your hand when you are starting a portal project. At each phase and for each activity, see what this book advises and follow the instructions in this book to lead your portal project to a great success.

Sunil Patil Dec 10, 2012

It seems that IBM is investing a lot in IBM Web Experience factory in last few years. I wanted to learn about WEF but the problem is i was not able to find any suitable documentation or something that will let me learn about WEF in step by step manner. Then before few days Packt publishing contacted me to review the IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud book. This book has lot of information about the architecture, analysis and design, release management in the first part. The part that i was most interested in was from chapter 7 to chapter 15 which covers the websphere experience factory development. I went through these chapters and really enjoyed reading them. I want to thank Packtpub for coming up with a book that helped me learn about WebSphere experience factory

Prakash Dec 26, 2012

I liked the book very much. I have around 3 yrs exp in WEF. This book helped me to learn how to integrate portals to cloud.Much details available. The examples are preety good. & i did not have any problem while trying out the example of the book.Best part is examples are realfile based not " Hello world" type. :)Thank you a lot for getting me a chance to review such a nice well described book.This will surely help experienced persons like me as well as new developers trying to get there hand dirty in WEF.- Prakash

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