Packt Publishing has recently published the book IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud. I am proud to say that I was an editor for this book, which let me give feedback to the authors and publisher on its contents.
The book takes the approach of developing a complete portal application from start to finish and covers WebSphere Portal 8 as well as WebSphere Portal 7. The book starts with performing an assessment, moves into governance, then architecture, requirements, design, development, testing and implementation of a banking application. The approach to all these topics is to describe some of the best practices of each phase as it relates to WebSphere Portal.
I don’t often see these types of book go into as much detail on the early phases of a project, such as governance, but you will find lots of information here about more than just code examples. In fact, the book uses Web Experience Factory as the development environment, so you don’t see any code at all. The authors do a good job of explaining how to use WEF’s model driven approach to development. Here is the overview of the book as provided by the publisher:
- 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
Much of the information can be useful for any type of portal project, not just WebSphere Portal. However, all the examples are specific to WebSphere Portal and other IBM products.
I have not yet read the final published version, but I think you will find this book valuable.
