IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 Preview - What's New

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WebSphere Portal 6.1 Preview


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Introducing WebSphere Portal 6.1

Deliver an irresistible user experience

Give power without losing control

Get up and running faster

Keep running with less effort

Leverage your investments



Deliver an Irresistible User Experience

Turn your existing Portal Applications into “desktop like” applications

– Highly reactive user interface– Many actions possible without server roundtrips– Avoids page reloads

Improved performance and scalability– Reduced server side processing– Reduced bandwidth requirements – Reduced client-side processing– Improved cachability

Browser-side Aggregation, Navigation and Customization

– Renders XML obtained from the server in the browser– Implemented using AJAX, XML, Dojo, and JavaScript– Accesses and manipulates Portal through REST*

“Most existing Portlets benefit directly from Web2.0 rendering model without any changes.”

Gadgets

Atom / RSS Feeds

REST-accessible Markup Fragments

Portlets or other

WSRP Services

Client Side Aggregation

Get Desktop Performance in a Browser




Provides an interactive user experience

No programming needed, simply tag the markup (Microformats)

Supports web content from all places

Real World Examples

Select a user name and..

see the user profile, or email address, or map their location

Click on an order item and..

see current delivery state

check customer Account details

<span class=“locality“> Stuttgart </span>

<span class=“OrderItem“> 112001000001 </span>

Live Text – Give users quick in-place access to additional information




role-based

composite applications

in context

Community SOA Wiki Business Catalog forum > 3600 Assets in IBM SOA Business Catalog

Google Gadget Services > 4000 Applications and Utilities

Extends reach of rich internet services to role-based business centric composite applications for improved flexibility and responsiveness.

Easily incorporate Google Gadgets into Portal applications:

Search and select any Google Gadget

Customize to portlet

Leverages Portal’s Web 2.0 APIs support

Supports inter-portlet communication between Portal portlets and Google Gadget portlet instances.

IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets

Enterprise and internet

data and services

Enterprise and internet

data and services



Give Power Without Losing Control

Combines several administrative actions into a single portlet: User enrollment Virtual Portal creation Portal content import

New Site Wizard quickly creates new customized Portal Sites



Give Power Without Losing ControlBetter content authoring experience and enhanced content security model

Inherited security enables all sites and site areas to use the same security model

Simplified authoring templates are very useful for creating "quick" content (i.e. blogs)

Richer inline editing enables users to easily create folders, sites or site areas. Users can now perform most functions from the website itself (in context) rather than having to go through the central UI of WWCM




Change the banner: logo, color, typography, border, background

Change the typography: default size, color and style, headline size, color, etc.

Change the navigation: orientation, tab colors, tab text

Change the colors: page color or background, highlight color

Change the buttons: text, color, selected and unselected states

Show and hide footers, gutters, links, breadcrumbs, etc.

Theme Customizer - Easily change the look of a portal page - no HTML, JavaScript or XML coding required!




Simplify creation of portal pages

Use HTML design tools and publish to WebSphere Portal

Enable your designers to create smart HTML pages using live text in WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal

Portlets

PortalNavigation

HTML Design tool

publish

Unleash the power of your web design teams

Unleash the power of your web design teams

HTML Page Support



Get Up and Running Faster

Install Improvements– Faster OOB Install compared to previous releases (under 1 hour on most of platforms.)

– Multiple packaging options (Content, Server)

– Multiple installation options (Empty, Admin, Full)

– Improved OOB configuration defaults, OOB automation of common tune up steps

– Clustering automation to simplify building clusters.

– Portal file system assets will be split between read-only and read-write (Profiles)

– Clearer doc on out of box install, targeted to platform and db

Upgrade Improvements– Migrating from any previous release to 6.1 will see the following improvements:

• Simplified procedure (Improved automation for customizations and security)• Automatic redeployment of customer apps• Automatic migration of WAS settings.• Improved documentation

– In addition, customers migrating from v6.0 will see these additional enhancements• Near zero downtime migration (Re-use of DBs in place)

Making it easier to get to WebSphere Portal 6.1 installed and upgraded



Updates to Rational Application Developer

RAD is still supported in version 6.0 and 6.1

– RAD is no longer entitled as of version 6.0

– The RAD Portal Toolkit is still entitled with RAD licenses

RAD Roadmap for Version 6.1

– June – RAD 7.0.0.7 – Support of Portal 6.0 projects on Portal 6.1

• Leverage existing 6.0 Feature set

– September – RAD 7.5 – Complete support for Portal 6.1 feature set and Portal 6.1 Test Environment

• New Features – Support for New Standard, CSA, Dojo etc



Keep Running with Less Effort

StagingDevelopment ProductionIntegration

Reduce the effort to move portal pages, content

and their related artifacts

Support for multiple daily updates and publishing

whole sites

Version-able and Archive-able, Workflow pluggable

Return to a previous version very quickly

Validate that a publish occurred correctly

Improve management and readability of URLs

Site Management enables fast and flexible staging-to-production operations



WSRP 1.0 + 2.0

Workload Distribution / Isolation – Remote Portlets

Portal Server 1(User Access)

Portal Users

Remote WSRP 2.0 Portlets participate in Context• Optionally use multiple JVMs for running your Portal

• Isolate “untrusted” Portlets from Portal• Execute Portlets in their own JVM• Enhanced scalability for “heavy” Portlets

Portlet Container

WSRP 1.0 + 2.0

Portlet Container

Portal Server 2(Portlet Server)

Portlet Container

WSRP 1.0

App Server 1(Portlet Server)





ConfigurePortlet Request

Metrics and PMI metrics in the

WAS administration console (ISC).

By default all Portlet Monitoring

is disabled, use “custom” mode.

See how your Portal Site and Portlets perform while you build your site




Application provided with the Beta release

Reduces effort to support WebSphere Portal and Express

Search for Q&A

Easily send log files and configuration data to IBM support

Reduce the communication effort and time to solve issues.

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/support/isa/

Support Assistant improves your ability to resolve software problems quickly



Leverage Your Investments

Easily preview how portlets will be rendered on a portal page

Better Debugging Support - Set break points, watch variables, step through code

Simpler Builder Selection

– Recommended builders based on selection

– In context help and examples of when to use builders

– Keyword search to find the right builder

– Favorites

Portlet Factory - New visual editing capability speeds portlet construction


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Simplicity of iFrames without the drawbacks – No double header or dual navigation

HTML <script> tag executes and can “inject” markup for portal navigation, launch menu, and page breadcrumbs into web app

Clicking on any Portal specific navigation tab will take you back into Portal. Clicking on any Portal URL page tab will hit the underlying URL.

Any web application can display and make use of Portal navigation

Web Application Integrator – Available on the Portlet Catalog Today



Notes applications built

with Domino Designer

Portlet component builtwith Rational RAD

E-form built with Forms Designer

3270 and iSeries screens via HATS

WSRP Producer

Visual Studio Developed Apps with Mainsoft (IBM Partner)

Workplace Dashboard Framework

Component built with Portlet Factory

Leverage Your InvestmentsTremendous Flexibility and choice

role-based

composite applications

process driven

in context

services

Feeds Feeds Portlet CatalogPortlet Catalog

Gadgets and iWidgets

Gadgets and iWidgets

JSR 168WSRP v1.0

JSR 168WSRP v1.0

JSR 286WSRP v2.0

JSR 286WSRP v2.0



Portal Standards Leadership JSR 286 – Java™ Portlet Specification V2.0

IBM is leading this JSR, all major Java technology portal (commercial and open source) vendors represented in the EG

Reference implementation will be provided at Apache Pluto 2.0

TCK will be available for free (Will extend the JSR 168 TCK)

Schedule: final around early March 2008 (final Draft published)

Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) V2.0 Standard protocol for accessing portlets as web service

Defined at OASIS, chaired by IBM

Schedule: final around early March 2008 (final Draft published)

Common goals Enable coordination between portlets and allow building composite applications based on portlet

components (events and render context (e.g. public render parameters) )

Allow for a better user experience using AJAX patterns, Serving resources

WebSphere Portal seamlessly integrates JSR168, JSR286 and WSRP2.0 Portlets.

WebSphere Portal 6.1 Beta already supports JSR286 and WSRP 2.0./WebSphere Portal 6.1 Beta already supports JSR286 and WSRP 2.0./

04.03.2008: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286




WebSphere Portal 6.1 – Take a Closer Look

WebSphere Portal 6.1 is scheduled to ship in Mid Year 2008

Beta 3 is Available NOW

Thousands of existing and new customers have already taken advantage!

https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/wps61beta/

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