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WebSphere Portlet Factory & Workplace Dashboard FactoryProof of Technology

Brussels, 6/6/2006Herbert Hilhorst, IBM Technical Sales IOT Southwest

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Agenda Introduction WebSphere Portlet Factory (WPF) overview - presentation Workplace Dashboard Factory (WDF) overview - presentation Hands-on Workshop WPF

Lab Product installation and configuration WPF Database integration

Lab 1 Employee Compensation Summary Lunch Hands-on Workshop WPF - continued

WPF Database integration Lab 2 Employee Compensation Detail

WPF Domino integratie Lab 3 Employee Project Expenses (option)

WPF SAP integratie example WPF Web Service example

Hands-on Workshop WDF: WDF Alerting example WDF Framework example

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WebSphere Portlet Factory & Workplace Dashboards

Workplace Dashboard Framework Alerting

Charting

Reusable Design Components

Business User Configuration

Common Administration

Ideal for companies that want a composite framework specifically designed for building dashboards

Workplace Dashboard Packages

Available Portlet Packages

Executive Dashboard

Sales Dashboard

Ideal for companies that want out-of-the-box dashboard portlets tailored to a specific function and industry

WebSphere Portlet Factory Rapid App Dev (RAD) Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Integration Extensions

WebSphere Portal adapter

Profiling engine

Ideal for companies that want to build portal-based composite applications and want the maximum level of flexibility

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WebSphere Portlet Factory

Dashboard Framework Alerting Charting

Reusable Design Components

Business User Configuration

Common Administration

Ideal for companies that want a composite framework specifically designed for building dashboards

Workplace DashboardsAvailable Dashboards

Executive

Sales

Ideal for companies that want out-of-the-box dashboard portlets tailored to a specific function and industry

Portlet Factory Tooling Ideal for companies that want to build portal-based composite applications and want the maximum level of flexibility

Rapid App Dev (RAD)

Service-oriented architecture

Integration Extensions

Profiling engine

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Custom WebSphere Portlets Made Easy

WebSphere Portlet Factory is a dedicated portlet creation

environment for WebSphere Portal that simplifies & accelerates

the development, deployment, maintenance and reuse of custom

portlets including SAP, Domino, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Web

Service portlets.

WebSphere Portlet Factory plugs in to Rational Application Developer enabling extended integration to existing applications, data & other IT assets as custom portlets; further reducing the complexity of J2EE development for IBM Workplace & WebSphere Portal

Automation Change Reuse

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Allows developers of any skill level to construct, change, deploy, and maintain custom portlets

Provides an service oriented architecture (SOA) entry point for companies by delivering SOA-based portal applications

Pre-built integrations for composite, high-value, portlets that leverage investments in existing applications such as Lotus Notes and Domino, SAP, PeopleSoft and Siebel

Delivers tight WebSphere Portal integration for quick and easy portlet-to-portlet communication (C2A), real-time collaboration (People Awareness) and portal groups for personalization

Enables delivery of variable portal instances on demand, without requiring multiple and complex portlet code bases

Foundation for IBM Workplace dashboard solutions

We selected Portlet Factory as a powerful and versatile vehicle for the rapid deployment of high-impact business applications

Steve Sacho, Manager of web and application development Pfizer Global Manufacturing

IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory simplifies & accelerates the development, deployment, maintenance, and reuse of custom portlets.

Rapid Portlet Creation and Customization Tooling

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IBM Websphere Portal Server Personalisation Customisation Web Content Management Productivity Components Search Portlet Catalog Web applications

Internal / external Public / secured Complete / partial

Desktop integration Messaging Office

Click-to-action (communication between portlets Security

Identification/authentication Single sign-on Access control to resources

Processes

Applications

People

Content

B2BB2C

B2E Portal

a Single Point of personalized interaction

with the applications, content, processes and

people, for the user

PortalPortal

A Portal is =

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WebSphere Portlet Factory Key Concepts

BuilderAn adaptive, reusable component that generates Java, XML and JSP for specific portlet functionality

ModelA container of Builders

ProfileA set of parameters that vary Builder inputs to dynamically generate unique versions of the portlet

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Multi-page, Complex Portlets without CodingDevelopers of all skill levels can rapidly build multi-page, complex portlets (search, create, update, and delete) without writing any java code.

* Generated Method [_pageDispatcher] * Generated by builder call [bc21] */public void _pageDispatcher(WebAppAccess webAppAccess){ com.bowstreet.webapp.JSPSupport.dispatch(webAppAccess);}/** * Generated Method [getFlights_PagingGetImgName] * Generated by builder call [bc21] */public String getFlights_PagingGetImgName(WebAppAccess webAppAccess, String button, String position){ PagingAssistant asst = (PagingAssistant)webAppAccess.getVariables().getObject("getFlights_Paging"); String img = button + position; if ((button.equals("First") || button.equals("Prev")) && !asst.hasPreviousPage()) img = button + "Disabled"; if ((button.equals("Next") || button.equals("Last")) && !asst.hasNextPage()) img = button + "Disabled"; return webAppAccess.getVariables().getXmlText("getFlights_PagingButtonImages", img);

Wizard-driven Builders

generate J2EE-compliant code automatically

Create new records

create a results page

create a drill down page

build-in support for delete and edit

and save or cancel changes.

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Multi-page Portlet

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Robust Integration Capabilities

WSRP

Easily integrate data from the following sources:

http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/public_index.jsp

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Pre-built Extensions enable companies to quickly create composite portlets and applications that leverage data and processes from multiple backend systems.

Robust Integration Capabilities

Siebel

SAP

SAP and Siebel

Web Service

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Reuse existing assets

Use one data service to drive

display of multiple portlets

Reuse same UI with different data services

Flexible Data Services LayerThe Data Services Layer provides full support for the service provider & consumer paradigm required in an SOA environment. It enables the definition of clean, well defined service interfaces that separate the user interface from back end data.

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Data Services Layer Service Provider

Easily create services from SQL, SAP, Domino, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Java methods, etc.Optionally created WSDL description for servicesGenerates complete test pages, dramatically reducing time needed to QA servicesEnables developers to work disconnected by creating a stub service with sample dataAutomatically documents the service operations, inputs, and outputs

Service Consumer Supports quick creation of dynamic user interfaces from services

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Dynamic profiling enables the creation of adaptive, role-based dashboard views that automatically adapt their structure, presentation, flow, and access rights depending on the role and personal preferences of the user.

Sales VPRegional MgrSales Mgr

Alerts personalized

Scorecard shows

regional info only

Data filter adapts

Customized graph

displays revenue for

selected region

Dynamic Profiling

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Collaborate

Kick off processes & workflow

Update back end applications

Enabling Actionable Dashboards

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Demo WebSphere Portlet Factory

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Create a new Service Provider model to access employee data

from DB2.

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Add a Service Definition Builder to make this a model

a Service Provider

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Fill out the inputs in the Service Definition Builder to name the service that is being created.

This Builder can also be used to generate test pages, stub data

for disconnected use, and service documentation

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Add a SQL Call Builder to access the Employee data from DB2

Choose a JDBC Datasource

Enter SQL to get data

Specify parameters for SQL statement

Name the operation

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