Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

This post assumes that you have installed an automated build stack (which consists of maven, a maven compatible repository server, and a continuous integration (CI) server). This post also assumes that you have installed and configured the m2eclipse plugin for your RAD/Eclipse IDE. The details of these installations are beyond the scope of this series of posts. A maven […]

“Well it works on my machine” is the single most frustrating developer quote you will hear while working on a portal project. The open source world has experienced great success with automating builds and server deployments using apache maven and continuous integration (CI) servers like hudson, continuum, cruise control and others. Investing time in the beginning of […]

When IBM created their new JSR 286-based Web Content portlet they included only a local rendering version.  This means you have to have IBM WCM installed on the same server as Portal to render WCM content.  In IBM’s previous versions, they shipped both a local rendering and a remote rendering portlet.  The remote rendering portlet […]

Over the last 3 weeks Mike Porter and I have covered a number of topics to consider when trying to accelerate your speed to production for a portal project.  In case you missed any of the installments, here they are.  Good luck on your project! Previous Installments Dependency Management Ramp Your Resources Don’t Forget Your […]

Admittedly, search hasn’t been IBM’s game for a bit.  Slowly over the years we have seen their search product, Omnifind, come together and now with 9.1 it all changes – for the better.   I have reviewed pretty much every major player in the search market from Autonomy to Google to Endeca to Lucene and […]

I’ve blogged before about the need for a marketplace of portlets.   I’ve lamented the lack thereof in fact.  So I was happy to hear about a new offering in the Widgr Marketplace site.  Widgr, in beta right now, intends to offer a variety of portlets, widgets, gadgets, iframes, and other pieces of functionality for use […]

Two years ago I wouldn’t have said that mobile consideration is a key component to getting to production quickly.  Why the change,  especially if you are not intending to deliver your portal to mobile channels?  The answer is you inevitably will and if you don’t design upon and implement a mobile capable architecture now you will […]

Two years ago I wouldn’t have said that mobile consideration is a key component to getting to production quickly.  Why the change,  especially if you are not intending to deliver your portal to mobile channels?  The answer is you inevitably will and if you don’t design upon and implement a mobile capable architecture now you will […]

You want to build a an application once and deploy it to lots of different devices without much rework.  That’s an age-old problem that we once thought would go away with modern web browsers.  But now we have a new take on this issue:  Web vs Native applications on mobile devices. Well, two products are […]

In Part 7 of the series, I wrote about the importance of using an experienced core team.  However, every single resource on your project will not be a senior resource with years of relevant experience and that is the focus of this post.  If you do throw resources into the fire and expect them to […]

Use an Experienced Core Team Part 7 in our series is perhaps one of the most important: Use an Experienced Core Team.  “We have a bunch of smart people and they can figure this portal thing out” is a sure way to put your project in jeopardy.  I cannot stress enough how important having the […]

Welcome to day number 5 in our series.  Sometimes out of the box portal capabilities are not perfect.  Perhaps some of them don’t even meet 90% of your requirements.  Does this mean you should develop a custom home grown solution?  Well, not unless you want to spend a lot more money and take a lot […]