Test LOT-915: IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Solution Development

Architecting a Portal Solution

• Demonstrate familiarity with WebSphere Portal Web 2.0 features


• Demonstrate knowledge of WebSphere Portal Platform features


• Identify supported portlet frameworks/APIs


• Identifying scope for custom portlets


• Understand communications between portlets and widgets


• Understand how portal features and portlets use user identity to personalize


• Understand patterns and methods for application integration with WebSphere Portal


• Understand portal page aggregation modes


• Use out-of-the-box portlets

Install, Setup and Configuration of a Developer Environment

• Compile, packaging, and deploying portal artifacts using Rational Application Developer
  
• Create portlets in Rational Application Developer


• Diagnose problems with the development environment installation


• Optimize the development environment

Portal Frameworks and Portlet Services

• Apply the Tagging and rating SPI


• Creating a custom Portlet Service


• Develop Login, Logout, and Session validation filters


• Understand key Service Programming (SPI) and Application Programming Interfaces (API) #Controller SPI
  
  #Login Service SPI
  #Portal Model SPI
  #Portal User Management SPI (PUMA)
  #Property Broker SPI
  #Resource Addressability Framework (SPI)
  #Step Up Authentication SPI
  


• Use Remember Me API to provide anonymous portlet content personalization +Use REST protocol to access SPI's

Portlet Development

• Create cooperative portlets using live text Click-2-Action and Event broker


• Demonstrate knowledge of core Java Portlet Objects in the JSR 286 spec


• Demonstrate the differences between, events, render parameters, public render parameters, and scoped attributes


• Describe the portlet life cycle for JSR-286


• Effectively use JSPs to render portlet markup


• Have knowledge of WSRP for JSR-286 portlets


• Identify supported portlet modes and custom portlet modes


• Implement portlet actions and events with Java 5 annotations


• Understand portlet descriptor files for each portlet type and utilize WebSphere Portal extend features


• Understand the use of Standard Portlet APIs


• Use AJAX to update state and trigger actions with JSR-286 portlets


• Use the portlet client model


• Utilize client profile information (JSR-188)


• Utilize of standard portlet cascading style-sheet classes

Testing, Debugging and Performance Monitoring of Portlets

• Debug a portlet on a local server


• Effective use of logging


• Troubleshoot portlet applications


• Using portlet PMI statistics

Theme Development

• Create a custom layout template and adding it to the shelf


• Create a new style and add it to the shelf


• How to register an iWidget and use in the shelf


• How to use client side logging and tracing


• How to use the Context menu framework


• How to use the DND configuration object and add a custom DND source


• Understand OneUI basics


• Understand the bootstrapping process


• Understand the theme.html


• Use Dynamic Content Spots in theme templates


• Use the DecorationsManager and understand the creation of a skin.html template


• Use the navigation widgets and understand how to extend that widget


• Use WebDAV to create and update themes

Additional Development Concepts

• Assembling Composite Application Templates


• Creating custom portal search interfaces


• Developing Personalization Resources


• Have knowledge of Portlet Bridge Frameworks


• Search the Business Solutions catalog


• Use the collaborative API


• Using and extending the Credential Vault


• Using the widgets for blogs and wikis


• Using Web Content Management API's


• Writing Personalization and Visibility Rules