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Wheaton Worldwide as an Interesting Case Study

IBM has a YouTube of Wheaton Worldwide’s presentation and case study.  Their portal includes key content and a learning management system integrated to the portal.  But the new functionality really integrated their business functions into the portal.  That’s what I really like about this case study. Wheaton’s portal enables their business and uses the web […]

Now you can generate portlets using XMLPF

XMLPF stands for XML Portlet Factory and is an open source tool that can build Liferay portlets from XML definition files.  The software creates database CRUD portlets based on the definitions contained in an XML file.  Here is a link to the project website: http://www.xmlportletfactory.org/   An example portlet is shown to the right.  XML Portlet […]

Developing Mobile Applications Using Portlet Factory

Jonathan Booth, an Architect who develops the Portlet Factory development tool at IBM, presented on how you can use Portlet Factory to create Mobile Applications.  I’m not going to blog the entire presentation but instead give some highlights and key bits of information on what and how they use it. My first impressions are that […]

Creating Multi-channel social web apps on Portal

Via LinkedIn from Adam Ginsburg, IBM Product Manager is a YouTube video showing how to create a simple status update app on your portal. The status update would query and write to Lotus Connections, Twitter, and Facebook.  You gotta love the open API that lets you do this. I also love the way they use […]