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IBM Software Group
What's New in IBM WebSphere® Portlet
Factory 6.1.2
A technical look at new capabilities and features
Jason Cornell, Product Manager, WebSphere Portlet Factory
[email protected]
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What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2
 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces
 Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment
 Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications
 Develop Applications Faster than Ever
 Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms
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Generate Compelling User Interfaces Out-Of-The-Box
 Provides a compelling generated User Interface out-of-the-box
Improved Header Row Style
Enhanced Alternate
Row Shading
Row Highlighting
Enabled by Default
Improved Paging
Control Style
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Rapidly Modify Application Look and Feel
 Enables rapid modification of application look and feel from a centralized theme for
the entire application or specific models
 Theme defines Style Sheets, HTML templates, base pages etc. used to generate
application User Interface
Click to Enable
Ships with Two
Theme Samples for
Use or Reference
for Custom Theme
Creation
Style Applied
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What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2
 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces
 Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment
 Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications
 Develop Applications Faster than Ever
 Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms
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View Multiple and Single Model Version Differences
 Perform distributed team development and integrate models using compare
functionality
 View list of local model modifications, compare versions and rollback to previous
states
Displays Multiple Model Differences
Compares Builder Call Values
Identifies Builder Call Differences
Displays Single Model History
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Identify and Add User Modified Files to Source Control
 Easily identify files for addition to source control repositories
Click to Search for Modified Files
View Modified Files For Addition to
Source Control
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What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2
 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces
 Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment
 Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications
 Develop Applications Faster than Ever
 Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms
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Expose Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds From Back-End Systems
 Rapidly generate REST based reusable services layer leveraging extensive library of
pre-built connectors
Specify Service to Expose
Automatically Creates
Input Variables
Generate Test Harness
Click to View Feed
Automatically Creates
Feed Parameters
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Consume and Visualize Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Enhanced REST builder simplifies creating applications from complex REST feeds
Click to Extract Feed
Parameters
Automatically
Creates Variables
Visualize Feed Data
Restructures Data
for Use with UI
Builders
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What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2
 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces
 Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment
 Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications
 Develop Applications Faster than Ever
 Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms
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Create and Deploy Widgets for Use in Situational Applications
 Generate widgets empowering business users to create new applications
Provides support for widget events and dynamic widget customization
Create…
Assemble…
Solve Challenges…
Wire Widgets
Click to View Details
Display Details
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What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2
 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces
 Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment
 Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications
 Develop Applications Faster than Ever
 Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms
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Immediately Develop Applications Out-Of-The-Box
 Installer provides Eclipse and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
(WASCE)
Automatically creates WASCE project deployment configuration and Cloudscape
data source
Installer Provides
Everything Needed
to Get Started
Including Eclipse,
WASCE and
Integrated Tutorials
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Generate Applications in Minutes Using Wizards
Create Portlets…
 Generate Portlets, Widgets, Rich Client and Web
Applications from common data sources:
Databases, Excel, REST
Create Widgets…
Specify Title
Create Web Applications…
Rename,
Enable
Sorting and
Change
Column
Display Order
Create Rich Client Applications…
Add Link to
Details
Enable Paging
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Easily Leverage Relational Data in Applications
 System detects database connection issues and provides actionable system guided
checklists to help ensure developer success
Click to View
Details
Click to Launch
System Guided
Remediation
Actions
Checklist Provides
Expert Guidance
System Initiates
Actions to Help
Ensure Success
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What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2
 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces
 Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment
 Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds
 Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications
 Develop Applications Faster than Ever
 Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms
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Develop Applications Using Latest IDEs
 Provides extensive support for IDEs including:
Eclipse 3.4
Rational Application Developer 7.5
Rational Software Architect 7.5
WebSphere Information Developer 6.2
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Deploy Portlets to More Platforms
 Deploy portlets to WebSphere Application Server 7.0 JSR-286
container
Deploy JSR168/286
Portlets to WAS 7.0
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Deploy Applications to the Latest Deployment Platforms
 Provides extensive support for IBM platforms including:
IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Enable and Extend 6.1.0.1
IBM WebSphere Portal Express 6.1.0.1
IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0
IBM Mashup Center 1.1
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Deploy Applications to the Latest O/S Platforms
 Provides extensive updates for O/S platform support:
Platform
Version(s)
Windows
•Server 2003 Datacenter edition
•Server 2008
AIX
•6.1 FP4
OS/400
•v6ri
Red Hat Linux
•Server 5.1 Enterprise and Advanced Server Editions
•Enterprise Linux Enterprise and Advanced Server Update 6 (on
zSeries hardware)
SUSE Linux
•Enterprise SLES for OS/390 9, 2.6 Kernel 31 bit
•Enterprise SLES 10.1
zOS
•1.8, 1.9
HP-UX
•11iv2
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