Well, if you a regular reader of our blog, you’ll know that I started my WebSphere Portal installation (see Installing WebSphere Portal 8) but forgot to check the system requirements. So I stopped when Installation Manager told be that Windows Server 2003 was not supported. Well I got a couple of comments that basically said, […]
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IBM Websphere Transformation Extender – Power of Packs
IBM Websphere Transformation Extender (WTX) product is a powerful, transaction oriented universal data transformation and validation solution that provides flexibility to IT Systems and adapts to market changes quickly. Its codeless feature, industry packs gives powerful boost to generate complex mappings in no time. Following are the different packs provided: For Healthcare: HIPAA electronic data […]
Using Splunk for WebSphere Application Server
Splunk hosted a webinar earlier today on their Splunk for WebSphere Application Server 2.0 application. This is an application they wrote that extends Splunk’s already powerful capabilities to provide WebSphere-specific searches and reports. If you’re not familiar with Splunk, you should take a look. In a nutshell: Your IT infrastructure generates massive amounts of data. […]
Maven and WebSphere Web Applications (Part 1)
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 […]
The Portal URI Resolution Service
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 […]
The Power of WebSphere Portal Personalization
Personalization (PZN) in WebSphere Portal is one of its most powerful yet overlooked capabilities. I am surprised how often it is not even considered for everyday scenarios and instead complex custom code is written . Personalization is often for viewed as simply selecting content from Web Content Management (WCM) based on site areas and matching […]
IBM Sets Record for Middleware Performance
This may be a portal blog but in at least 4/5 of our projects, we hit a services layer. We need that data and those transactions to meet user requirements. So I’m always interested in what’s happening in the middleware fields. Anyway, eWeek has an article about IBM flexing their middleware muscle while setting new […]
Release Management Options for WebSphere
Every non-trivial implementation of WebSphere Portal (are there any trivial ones?) will need some degree of automation, mostly around release management. Most customers have three or more portal environments: Development, Production, and one or more in the middle. In the last few years, we’re seeing a greater demand for Disaster Recovery environments as well. Promoting […]
Why governments are embracing portals and online collaboration tools
I recently read an article about how Google is advertising the fact that “60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google.” What Google is saying with this statement is that many states have decided to begin using Google’s inexpensive enterprise software solutions that are largely web-based: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc. The general […]