Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

On October 28, 2011, Gartner updated their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. While not much has changed from 2010 in the leader’s quadrant, there are a few new names on the chart in the other quadrants.  In the pictures here you can see the 2010 version compared to 2011. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle continue to […]

WebSphere Portal 8 Beta now includes integration with OpenID and OAuth identity providers for authentication services.  What does this mean to Portal users? OpenID and OAuth are services available from sites such as Google, Yahoo, OpenID, and Facebook.  With this integration, your portal users can use their Google ID, Yahoo ID, Open ID or Facebook ID […]

IBM released the new Portal Mobile Experience theme a couple of weeks ago (see Jonathan Distad’s post).  I decided to install this new theme to see what a Portal Mobile Experience is like.   In the first screen shot, you see the standard Portal Administration page from a desktop browser. There is a navigator on the […]

I posted back in February about IBM’s Content Template Catalog for IBM Web Content Management.  That  post had over a thousand hits, so I know the Content Template Catalog was popular.  IBM has now released version 3.0 of the Content Template Catalog. You can see a demostration of the template catalog on YouTube:  IBM Content […]

Continuing with my series about WebSphere Portal 8 Beta 2, today I am looking at the improvements made to Web Content Management.  IBM had previously introduced the ability to create custom launch pages for the authoring portlet.  The idea here is that the default view – Library Explorer – can be intimidating for casual users, […]

I’ve been looking at Beta 2 of WebSphere Portal 8 and today I am going to review the new Configuration Wizard feature. If you have had to do any administration of WebSphere Portal, you are probably aware of the command line interface ConfigEngine.   This tool has been around with various names since at least […]

As my colleague Michael Porter mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I have been looking at WebSphere Portal 8 Beta and am going to review some of the new features with you in a series of posts. I just installed Beta 2 and have spent a couple of hours playing with the new Manage Pages feature.  With […]

Glenn Kline posted on the portal 8 beta not long ago. Mark Polly has also been actively checking it out. I just got some more news on it as well.  IBM has an active open beta available to a variety of companies and firms.  Since this is probably the most comprehensive list I’ve seen so […]

IBM just released the Mobile Portal Experience code to the Greenhouse product catalog. This is great because as IBM puts it, “mobile is exploding” and nearly everyone wants to extend their portals to the mobile devices. This release supports the major players supporting Webkit. Here is a snippet from the product description: The Portal Mobile […]

The parent project of the multiple module web application uses the uses the <packaging>pom</packaging> tag and several <module> tags to indicate that it is controlling the build order of several artifacts. The control is provided through the reactor plugin. The file structure that I use is: /ear /ear/pom.xml /web /web/pom.xml .classpath .project pom.xml The ear […]

Web Applications are WAR files that include java code and JSP files with a web.xml deployment descriptor that are intended to implement dynamic web functionality (as opposed to static web functionality which uses HTML files). A portal team typically uses this packaging technique for the following artifacts: Portal themes and skins web services iWidgets WebSphere […]

WebSphere Portal 6.0.1 introduced a capability called the URI resolution service or POC servlet  or the Resolver Framework depending on where you see it mentioned. The DeveloperWorks article called Accessing portal content with custom URLs is the most recent and informative post I have found describing this service. This service was created to allow non-portal sites in your […]