IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud -- Table of Contents -- IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Portal Assessment -- IBM WebSphere Portal (WP), IBM Web Experience Factory (WEF), and the cloud -- SaaS/IaaS/PaaS cloud engagement models -- Getting started-case study -- Step 1 - background, objective, and approach -- Step 2 - business need and portal alignment: -- Business value alignment -- Business drivers and current state -- Current state, future state, and a road map -- Current state - pain points and how portal capabilities can fill the gap -- Step 3 - A "Day-in-the-Life" demonstration -- Step 4 - the financial case -- Step 5 - recommendations and next steps - POV -- Cloud use cases applied -- Cloud approach with IBM enterprise SmartCloud - initial high-level tasks -- Cloud approach with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - initial high-level tasks -- Portal and Cloudonomics sense -- Summary -- 2. Portal Governance: Adopting the Mantra of Business Performance through IT Execution -- Social and technical evolution -- Five steps to governance -- Establish a sense of urgency -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Create the guiding coalition -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Develop a vision strategy -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Communicate the changed vision -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Empower broad-based action -- A2Z Bullion Bank action.

Portal governance - best practices -- Formulate a portal governance committee -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Obtain Executive Sponsorship -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Establish a Portal Center of Excellence -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Develop governance effectiveness metrics -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Time to develop and release new portal artifacts - A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Adopt and adapt portal governance -- A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Adopting virtual portals - A2Z Bullion Bank action -- Typical portal roles -- Value interests -- Summary -- 3. Portal Requirements Engineering -- The discipline of requirements and requirements as a discipline -- List users, existing systems, and functional requirements -- Derive actors and use cases to create the use case model -- Storyboard or wireframes -- Inventory-large reusable assets -- Identify delta use cases -- Document nonfunctional requirements -- Portal call center channel -- Portal self-service (core banking) channel -- Workload distribution -- Validate requirements with the customer -- Summary -- 4. Portal Architecture: Analysis and Design -- Cloud architectural model -- Portal architectural decisions -- Information architecture - wireframes and storyboards -- Portlet -- Portlet view -- Transition data -- POM and service design conceptual overview -- Service to data design overview - best practice artifacts -- Enterprise reference architecture - simplifying complexity with DataPower and all handlers -- A2Z banking reference and portal application architecture -- A2Z call center reference and portal application architecture -- Cloud as the fabric for resilient architecture -- Architecting for nonfunctional requirements -- Summary -- 5. Portal Golden and Cloud Architecture -- Reusable architecture assets and IBM Portal Accelerators -- IBM Accelerators for IBM WebSphere Portal.

IBM Retail Banking Template for WebSphere Portal (v2.0) -- IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator -- IBM Dashboard Accelerator -- IBM Collaboration Accelerator -- IBM Content Accelerator -- Portlet Catalog and Lotus Greenhouse -- Cloud execution environment and architectural model for cloud computing - IBM cloud reference architecture -- Highly available portal golden and SOA reference architecture -- Virtual portals, realms, and cluster partitioning -- Portal collaboration, pervasive, and voice runtime architectures -- Portal security architecture -- Single Sign-On (SSO) - patterns -- Portal architecture and performance modeling - cloud and traditional paradigms -- Portal operational model and workload analysis -- IBM lab tools - mainframe and distributed -- IBM zCP3000 -- IBM Automatic Model Building using InferENCE (AMBIENCE) -- Commercial solutions and tools - mainframe and distributed -- CA HyPerformix -- BMC -- Cloud capacity planning - IBM SmartCloud Monthly Cost Estimator -- Cloud capacity planning - Amazon Monthly Calculator -- Test architecture and test data governance -- Architecture assessment and operational technical readiness review -- Summary -- 6. Portal Build, Deployment, and Release Management -- Portal build, deployment, and release management -- Best practices and Jazz-enabled staging -- Portal tools -- XMLAccess -- ReleaseBuilder -- Site management tool -- Subsequent releases -- Release scenarios -- Portal scripting -- Manual steps prior to using ReleaseBuilder -- WEF and WP environment - high-level release steps -- Step 1 - Initial release - preparing the source environment -- Step 2 - building the release -- Step 3 - preparing the target environment -- Step 4 - importing the release -- Step 5 - post-transfer actions -- Building a portlet WAR for production -- Excluding files from a published WAR -- Using the .excludeFromServer file.

Global exclude across all projects -- Exclude on a project-by-project basis -- Using the **/nodeploy** directory -- Publishing to the JSR 286 portal container -- Portlet deployment -- Checklist for portal artifacts -- Checklist for WEF-related JARs -- web.xml processing and templates -- web.xml template files -- The WEB-INF\web.xml file -- web.xml processing at project creation and publishing -- Other things that impact web.xml -- Themes and skins deployment -- Portal resources management via policies -- Publishing to a remote AMI instance on the Amazon Cloud -- Cloud-enabled environment provisioning, deployment, and release management with IBM Workload Deployer -- Summary -- 7. Introduction to Web Experience Factory -- What is Web Experience Factory? -- Key benefits of using Web Experience Factory for portlet development -- The development environment -- Key components of WEF - builders, models, and profiles -- Builders -- Simple and complex builders -- The face of builders -- Builder artifacts -- Inspecting content created by builders -- Models -- Modeling -- Code generation versus software automation -- Profiles -- Regeneration engine -- Creating a WEF project -- Creating your first Portlet -- Executing your portlet from the designer -- Deploying your portlet -- Summary -- 8. Service Layers -- The Service Consumer and Service Provider patterns in WEF -- Service builders -- Creating a service model -- Explaining the Service Definition builder inputs -- Creating sample data for the Service Provider model -- Explanation about Simple Schema Generator builder inputs -- Emulating the data retrieval -- Creating a service operation -- Testing the Service Provider models -- Revisiting the Logical Operations -- Invoking the Service Provider model from the Service Consumer model -- Summary -- 9. Invoking Web Services.

Portal projects leveraging web services -- The Web Service Call builder -- General -- Request Parameters -- Request SOAP Header -- Service Information -- WS-Security -- Advanced -- Web service inputs from other builders -- Sample model -- Data transformation and manipulation of service response -- The transform builders -- IXml Java interface -- Summary -- 10. Building the Application User Interface -- Choosing the right builders to create the UI -- Understanding how WEF builds UI -- Data-driven development approach -- Modifying the content created by WEF -- Modification through builders and the Design pane -- Modification through the HTML code -- High-level and low-level builders -- Data Service User Interface builder -- Creating a simple database Service Provider model -- Working with the Data Services User Interface builder -- Data Services User Interface overview -- General -- List Page Settings -- Settings for the Create and Update Page -- Page-to-Page Navigation -- Label Translation Settings -- Building the Data Services User Interface sample model -- General -- List Page Settings -- Settings for the Create and Update Page -- Page to Page Navigation -- Label Translation Settings -- Paging -- Table -- Update -- Modifying the generated application -- Design panel -- Rich Data Definition builder -- Theme builder -- Modifier builders -- Modify the base pages used by high-level builders -- HTML Templates in WEF -- Summary -- 11. The Dojo Builders and Ajax -- What is Dojo and Ajax -- The problem -- The solution -- The benefits of using Dojo and Ajax in portal development -- The Dojo and Ajax related builders -- Dojo Rich Text Editor sample -- Creating the model -- Adding the builders -- Adding the variables -- Adding the Dojo builders -- Adding the Text builders -- Adding the processing section -- Testing the model.

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