IBM Websphere Portal V5.1, Application Development Certification Training Course

COURSE OUTLINE

Section 01 - Install, Set Up And Configure The Development Environment

Day 01
•  Understand software prerequisites
•  Choose development scenarios (Topologies)
•  Diagnose problems with development environment installation

Section 02 - Architecting A Portal Solution

Day 02
•  Identify portal dependencies on existing software
•  Use out-of-the-box portlets
•  Search the Workplace Solutions Catalog
•  Size the custom portlets that have to be written
•  Develop themes, skins and screens

Section 3 - Write A Portlet

Day 03
•  Describe the portlet life cycle
•  Develop Portlet applications utilizing Portlet JSR 168 API core objects
•  Effectively utilize portlet configuration and state objects to control portlet behavior
•  Effectively utilize portlet modes and states
•  Implement action processing
•  Use APIs to forward and redirect URLs
•  Support multiple markup

Day 04
•  Embed references to resources within a portlet
•  Effectively use JSPs to supply portlet rendering markup
•  Support multiple locales, clients and devices within a portlet application
•  Compile and package a WAR file
•  Work with portlet deployment descriptors (caching)
•  Make effective use of portlet application wizards

Section 4 - Testing And Debugging A Portal Solution

Day 05
•  Set up portlet parameters
•  Debug a portlet using a local Portal Unit Test Environment (UTE)
•  Debug a portlet using WebSphere Portal remote server attach
•  Troubleshoot portlet applications

Section 5 - Backend Portlet Services

Day 06
•  Use a portlet service
•  Create a portlet service
•  Configure and access application-specific data sources

Day 07
•  Use Service Data Objects (SDO) tooling to enable access to remote systems
•  Utilize the credential vault service
•  Implement cooperative portlets

Section 6 - Additional Portlet Concepts

Day 08
•  Use struts concepts within the portal framework and Java Server Faces
•  Implement personalization within portlet application
•  Utilize business process engine (bpe) API