Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal: Expert Guidance to Build and...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 552 pages
• Published by: Wiley June 25, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764539914
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764539916
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Book Description
Maximize on the power of WebSphere Portal to build and deploy portals

If you use, develop, manage, or administer WebSphere applications, you are probably already building or managing Web portals–or well on your way to doing so. With this comprehensive book, you’ll discover how these portals bring together important functions such as integration, presentation, organization, and customizations–functions needed in every complex application environment. The unparalleled author team of experts offers you in-depth insight on mastering the complex aspects of WebSphere Portal, walking you through every facet from installing to deployment.

Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal focuses on not only the portal as a server, but also how it interacts with components such as LDAP servers, enterprise applications, mobile devices, and even other portals. The authors begin with an introduction to the WebSphere product family and then explore such topics as:

• Installing and customizing the portal, as well as migrating existing environments to version 5
• Defining portlets, pages, and user interface properties
• Applying personalization, collaboration, search, and document and content management within WebSphere Portal v. 5
• Using high availability, security and single sign-on, identity management, Web services, and enterprise applications
• Setting up a portal in a high-availability environment and integrating external applications into WebSphere Portal

The companion Web site, www.wiley.com/compbooks/ben-natan, presents all the code in the book as well as links to vendors and sources of information pertaining to WebSphere Portal.

Download Description
Portals represent a booming IT market, and enterprises that build portals are making six-figure-plus investments in software, creating a huge demand for information on these products IBMs WebSphere Portal more than doubled its market share from 2000 to 2001, making it the current leader in this field Addresses the full life cycle of portals, touching upon all issues that users will encounter in a real enterprise environment Each chapter features sample code and detailed, step-by-step instructions for all procedures, addressing the latest software release Ron Ben-Natan is a leading expert on WebSphere and has written several books and articles on the subject Companion Web site offers additional information and sample code

Reader Reviews
WebSphere Portal (WP) is becoming a major technology, but there's still not a lot of books out there to help you understand and implement it. I had a chance to review Wiley's Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal by Ron Ben-Natan, Richard Gornitsky, Tim Hanis, and Ori Sasson. Having done some work with Portal, I can say I wish I had this book a lot sooner. It would have saved me some headaches. The chapter breakdown: Introducing WP; Installing WP on Windows 2000 Server; Installing WP on Linux; Customizing WP; Installing WP Tools and Problem Analysis; Migrating to WP Version 5.0; Defining Portals and Pages; Tailoring the Portal Web Design; WP Personalization; Portal Administration; Document and Content Management within WP; Adding Collaboration and Search Components to Your Portals; Extending Portal Functionality: Portlets; Portlet Programming Model and API; WebSphere Portlet Development Environment; Portlet Development; Portlet Interactive Debug and JSR 168 Example; Struts Portlet Framework; Implementing Authentication for Large Enterprises; Integrating Security and Identity Management Tools with WP; Designing High Availability into Your Portal Server; WP Support for Web Services and Remote Portlets; Integrating External Applications with WP; Supporting Mobile Users; Index As you can see from the list of chapters, there's a lot of information that spans many different roles. There's the administration processes, the development processes, security processes, and architecture. Regardless of what part of WP you are dealing with, you'll find something of interest in here. The authors are well-versed and experienced in WP developement and implementation, so it's not a rehash of "here's what the instructions tell you to do". Plenty of illustrations and code samples will help you quickly get to where you need to be. From a development perspective (since that's my area of expertise), I appreciated the different looks at portlet development. I know that Struts is becoming a de facto standard, but it's hard to find information on how to integrate that into a portlet program. They cover that here. They also cover the differences between the WP API and the JSR 168 standards for development, which is very nice. Basically, it's one of the most up-to-date books on WP that is currently on the market, and between it and the IBM redbooks you should be able to come up with a successful portal implementation. Comment | | (Report this)