From Twitter to WordPress.com, many of the biggest and most popular web applications have developed RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs). While REST is enjoying a recent surge in popularity, it is not a new technology or approach. In fact, the term was originally coined in Roy Fielding’s 2000 dissertation. And though that is the first […]
Posts Tagged ‘Integration’
Mastering Community Pages powerd by IBM Connections and IBM Portal
So I’ve been very interested in deeper integration between Portal and Connections. That means that the beta out on Community Pages is of particular importance. Jon Brown of the Connections team and Stefan Liesch of Portal and Content team fame gave the presentation. IBM has seen the concept of a social portal evolve. Social Portal […]
Portal Integration with Peoplesoft
Integrating to any large system can pose a number of challenges. Over time, we’ve had to integrate to SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, and a variety of other systems. One thing we’ve learned is that it’s always possible but also brings with it a number of challenges. Today I wanted to focus on integration to Peoplesoft. Part […]
WebSphere Portal and Maven (Part 6)
You use a parent pom.xml file that each portlet project inherits from to encapsulate your dependencies and maven plugin bindings. This keeps all this code out of sight from your portlet project. This first code posting shows the plugin definition under a pluginManagement section. This section is used to create any dependencies used by the […]
12 Things You Shouldn’t Do on a Portal Project: #7 Is Best of Breed Always Best
Doubtless you all have heard or participated in the best of breed vs the one vendor stack debate. I can lean both ways on that debate depending on what kind of solution you need. There is a time and place for both approaches. However, sometimes it’s far too easy to get caught up in the […]
Perficient at IBM’s Impact Conference next week
IBM’s Impact conference focused on a variety of integration, commerce, analytics, and other solutions provided by IBM is next week. Perficient will be there. We won the Smarter Decision Management award last year and we are always hoping to do better each year. For more information on what’s happening there and to track it, you […]
Perficient at IBM's Impact Conference next week
IBM’s Impact conference focused on a variety of integration, commerce, analytics, and other solutions provided by IBM is next week. Perficient will be there. We won the Smarter Decision Management award last year and we are always hoping to do better each year. For more information on what’s happening there and to track it, you […]
Manage an integration project in control (Part 2 – Suggestions / Discussion)
In the previous post, we talked about some major challenges we experienced in an integration project. In this post, I will share some suggestions on how to solve these problems. I also bring the discussion about using “Agile” or “Check Point Control” in integration project plan. Based on the previous post, it becomes natural that […]
Manage an integration project in control (Part 1 – Problems)
It is exciting to see so many integration projects pop up in our offshore global delivery center (China GDC). As we know, most integration projects are very often challenging. Since I have worked as the offshore team lead in a mulit-shore integration project, I would like to share what I learned with you. First, I’d […]