WA1314 Mastering Portal Programming v5.1 on RAD 6 Training and Courseware Course Outline

WA1314 Mastering Portal Programming v5.1 on RAD 6 Training and Courseware Course Outline

0. Introductions and Agenda
	Course Overview Course Overview – cont’ Course Objectives Agenda – Day 1 Agenda – Day 2 Agenda – Day 3 Agenda – Day 4 Agenda – Day 5 Prerequisites Environment Student Introductions

1. Introduction to the WebSphere Portal Server
	Topics What is a Portal An Example of WebSphere Portal Sites Benefits of Portal Sites General Portal Architecture The Major Components of Horizontal Portals The Major Components of Horizontal Portals – cont’ WebSphere Portal Goals WebSphere Portal Components WebSphere Portal Components – cont’ WebSphere Portal Accessibility WebSphere Portal Packaging WebSphere Portal Express WebSphere Portal Enable A Typical Network Architecture for WebSphere Portal WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation 5.1.1 WebSphere Portal Server WebSphere Portal Server Architecture Portal Container Portal Engine Architecture Page Aggregation Modules Portlet WebSphere Portal Built-in Portlets Portlet Application Portlet Mode and State WebSphere Portlet Content Publishing (WPCP) Portal Document Manager (PDM) Search Engine WebSphere Portal Information Summary

2. Introduction to J2EE
	Topics Enterprise Web Applications J2EE Architecture Model View Controller Model View Controller What is a Servlet? Servlet Container Servlet Responsibilities J2EE and Servlets The Servlet Class An Example – Hello World Life Cycle – Initialization Life Cycle – Initialization (cont.) Example Initialization Life Cycle – Processing Life Cycle – Destroy User Input Example – User Input Output to Client Example – Output to Client JavaServer Pages A Simple Example - Hello.jsp How JSP Works JSP Invocation JSP Scripting Elements JSP Directive Directives – include Include – an Example JSP Declarations Declarations – an Example JSP Expressions JSP Expressions – an Example JSP Scriptlets JSP Scriptlets – an Example JSP Scriptlets – an Example (cont.) JSP Predefined Variables The request Object The response Object The out Object Out – an Example What is JDBC? JDBC Architecture JDBC: Basic Steps Loading a Driver DB2 UDB JDBC Drivers Oracle JDBC Drivers Create a Connection Connection Statement PreparedStatement ResultSet ResultSet… Example JDBC Servlet With Transactions Close the Connection Need for Connection Pooling Connection Pooling in JDBC 2.0 Connection Pooling Basic Steps in Using JDBC Connection Pooling Access a DataSource Get a Connection Release Connections Connection Pool Example Creating a Data Source with RAD Integrating Servlet and JSP Calling a JSP from a Servlet Request Dispatching - forward Request to JSP Supply Result information to the JSP A Simple Example Display JavaBean Properties in JSP Summary

3. Introduction to Portal Programming
	Topics Terminologies Portlet Instance Types Portlet Instance Types (cont.) Instance Type Summary Portlet Applications and Concrete Portlet Applications Portlet Modes Example of Using Edit Mode Portlet Mode - Advanced Portlet Window States Portlets vs. Servlets Portlet Deployment Descriptors portlet.xml portlet.xml – cont’ Relationship between web.xml and portlet.xml Example web.xml Relationship between Portlet and Concrete Portlet Summary

4. Portlet Development Using Rational Application Developer v6
	Objectives The WebSphere Family Eclipse Platform The WebSphere Studio Product Family Rational Web Developer Rational Application Developer Key Features in RAD v6.0 WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer Views, Perspective and Editor Areas Basic Operations with RAD Views and Perspectives The Java Perspective The Debug Perspective Navigator View Package Explorer Outline View Task View Build and Validation Import and Export Project Templates and Code Completion Searching Setup Compiler Class Path JRE Switching Portal Development Support RAD 6 Installation Portal Server v5.1 Test Runtime Installation Configure Portal Server Test Runtime Basic Steps in Development Project Structure Portlet Project Create a Project Structure Working With the Project portlet.xml Editor Creating a Test Server Managing the Server Unit Testing Export Portlet Application

5. Basic Portal Programming
	Topics Design Pattern of Portlet Applications – Model-View-Controller More on MVC Two Phase Request Processing The Portlet API The Portlet Class Portlet Life-cycle methods The Initialization Methods The service Method The login/out Methods The PortletAdapter Class PortletAdapter Class – cont’ Example – Hello World Portlet Example – Hello World Portlet – cont’ Creating a Portlet Code Generation Option Portlet Core Objects PortletRequest Methods of PortletRequest Methods of PortletRequest – cont’ PortletResponse Methods of PortletResponse Methods of PortletResponse – cont’ PortletURI Methods of PortletURI Techniques for Using PortletURI Example – Creating PortletURI Example – JSP Using PortletURI PortletSession Methods of PortletSession Example – Using Portlet Core Objects Portlet Listeners PortletSessionListener PortletPageListener PortletTitleListener Example - Using Portlet Listeners Example - Using Portlet Listeners – cont’ Portlet Configuration Objects PortletContext Methods of PortletContext Methods of PortletContext – cont’ Example – - Using PortletContext PortletConfig Methods of PortletConfig PortletSettings Methods of PortletSettings PortletApplicationSettings Methods of PortletApplicationSettings PortletData Methods of PortletData Example – Using PortletData Example – Using PortletData – cont’ Other Portlet Objects PortletLog Methods of PortletLog Configure Logging Behavior Logging Example PortletWindow Methods of PortletWindow Example – Using PortletWindow User Methods of User Methods of User – cont’ Portlet API Overview

6. Advanced Display Generation
	Topics JSP Custom Tags Why Use JSP Custom Tags Portal Custom Tags portletAPI tags <portletAPI:init /> Basic Controller to View Interaction <portletAPI:if /> <portletAPI:log /> <portletAPI:dataLoop /> <portletAPI:dataAttribute /> <portletAPI:settingsLoop /> <portletAPI:settingsAttribute /> <portletAPI:createReturnURI /> <portletAPI:createURI /> <portletAPI:URIParameter /> <portletAPI:URIAction /> <portletAPI:encodeNamespace/> Example of Using portletAPI Tags Example of Using portletAPI Tags –cont’ National Language Support Static Translation Dynamic Translation Resource Bundle File Displaying Translated Text More on JSTL Internationalization Tags Example of Using Resource Bundles Multiple Device Support XML Transcoding

7. Advanced Portal Programming
	Topics Portlet Event Handling Portlet API for Event Handling Action Events The ActionEvent Interface The ActionListener Interface The PortletURI Object Example Action Event Handling Example Action Event Handling (cont.) Example JSP Using the Action URI Inter Portlet Messaging MessageEvent PortletMessage Message Sender MessageListener Example of Using Message Event Example of Using Message Event – cont’ WindowEvent WindowListener Example of Using the Window Event Portlet Caching Enabling Servlet Caching Programmatically Control Cache Example: Cache Control Portlet Services Writing a Portlet Service Defining the Portlet Service Interface Example - AccountService Writing the Portlet Service Implementation java.util.prefs.Preferences Example - AccountServiceImpl Example - AccountServiceImpl - cont’ Writing the Portlet Service factory Example - AccountServiceFactory Registering Portlet Services Example - PortletServiceRegistryService.properties Using a Service from a Portlet Content Access Service

8. Credential Vault
	Credential Vault Credential Components of Credential Vault Structure of the Credential Vault Slot Slot Scope Credential Access Level Single Sign-on Scenario CredentialSlotConfig Methods of CredentialSlotConfig CredentialVaultService CredentialVaultService Interface Methods Methods of the CredentialVaultService -cont’ Example - Looking Up CredentialVaultService Example – Create a Slot Saving Credential in a Slot Credential Class Classes that Implement the Credential Interface Example – Retrieve the Credential PassiveCredential UserPasswordPassiveCredential ActiveCredential ActiveCredential - cont’ HttpFormBasedAuthCredential HttpFormBasedAuthCredential - cont’ Example - Using HttpFormBasedAuthCredential

9. Cooperative Portlets
	Topics Cooperative Portlets Basic Concepts Example of Click-to-Action Runtime Architecture of Click-to-Action Portlet Wrapper Class Enable C2A in Portlet Applications Creating Cooperative Portlets Development Steps C2A JSP Tags Scattering Scattering: C2A JSP Tags Example of C2A Source JSP Example of C2A Source JSP - cont’ Understanding the WSDL File Example of Target Action Descriptor WSDL Example of Target Action Descriptor - cont’ Example of C2A web.xml Example of C2A portlet.xml Example of a Target Portlet Wiring Summary

10. Struts and JSF Portlet Development
	Introduction to Struts Struts and Portlet API Mismatch Customizing Struts The Portal Struts Servlet Portal Struts Processor Class Generating Portlet URI The Response Object Action Processing Display Rendering Default Display Page Getting the Portlet Objects Struts Logging Creating a Struts Portlet Project JavaServer Faces (JSF) Basics Defining the Screen Layout Managed Bean Assigning the Model HTTP Request Handling Navigation Advantage of JSF Creating a JSF Portlet Creating a JSF Portlet … Navigation State Management Advanced: Obtaining Core Objects Advanced: Sending a Message to a JSF Portlet

11. Themes and Skins
	Topics Elements of a Portal Site Page and Label Page/Label Hierarchy URL Theme Screen The Home Screen Skin Container How is a Page Rendered? Directory Structure of Themes & Skins Creating a New Theme Creating a New Skin Custom JSP Tags wps Tags for Rendering Portal Page Components wps:if tag for Checking Conditions Navigating Page Hierarchy wps Tags for Locating Portal Resources wps Tags for Generating a Portal URL wps Tags for Generating a Portal URL - cont’ wps Tags for Rendering portlet control icons wps Tags for Rendering portlet control icons - cont’ The Default.jsp Snippets from a Default.jsp The Control.jsp A Typical Layout of HTML Skins Snippets from a Control.jsp Summary

12. WebSphere Portal Server Administration
	Topics WebSphere Portal Administration Enabling Administration in RAD6 Installing a Portlet Web Module How is a Portlet Web Module Installed? Managing Applications Managing Applications… Managing Portlets Managing the Layout Common Layout Tasks Introduction to xmlaccess Running xmlaccess Example Input File Basic Syntax Export Example Deleting Users Symbolic Reference Example Symbolic Reference Example… Guidelines

13. Portal Development Best Practices
	Topics Architecture Best Practices Controller (Portlet) Guidelines View (JSP) Guidelines Configuration Management Session Management Inter Portlet Messaging Security Guidelines Performance Tips Performance Testing Guidelines Summary

Appendix A. JSR 168 Overview
	What is JSR 168 Relationship With J2EE Relationship With Servlets A Portal Site Request Handling Modes and States Developing a Portlet Example portlet.xml The Portlet Interface Overview Portlet Initialization The PortletConfig Object Action Processing The ActionRequest Interface The ActionResponse Interface Example Action Processing Display Generation The RenderRequest Interface The RenderResponse Interface The GenericPortlet Class Including a JSP File Example Display Generation Developing the View JSP Tags JSP Example Creating JSR 168 Portlets in RAD6

Appendix B. Migrating a Web Application to WebSphere Portal
	Motivations Behind Migration Typical Goals Migration Technique Key Effort Areas Keeping the Look and Feel Request Handling Splitting the Role of a Servlet Dispatching Action Event Dispatching Display Generation Request Migrating JSP Pages

WA1314 Mastering Portal Programming v5.1 on RAD 6 Training and Courseware Course Outline

0. Introductions and Agenda

1. Introduction to the WebSphere Portal Server

2. Introduction to J2EE

3. Introduction to Portal Programming

4. Portlet Development Using Rational Application Developer v6

5. Basic Portal Programming

6. Advanced Display Generation

7. Advanced Portal Programming

8. Credential Vault

9. Cooperative Portlets

10. Struts and JSF Portlet Development

11. Themes and Skins

12. WebSphere Portal Server Administration

13. Portal Development Best Practices

Appendix A. JSR 168 Overview

Appendix B. Migrating a Web Application to WebSphere Portal