A technical look at new capabilities and features What's New in IBM WebSphere® Portlet Factory 6.1.2 A technical look at new capabilities and features Jason Cornell, Product Manager, WebSphere Portlet Factory cornellj@us.ibm.com

What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications Develop Applications Faster than Ever Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms

Generate Compelling User Interfaces Out-Of-The-Box Provides a compelling generated User Interface out-of-the-box Improved Header Row Style Row Highlighting Enabled by Default Enhanced Alternate Row Shading Improved Paging Control Style

Rapidly Modify Application Look and Feel Enables rapid modification of application look and feel from a centralized theme for the entire application or specific models Theme defines Style Sheets, HTML templates, base pages etc. used to generate application User Interface Ships with Two Theme Samples for Use or Reference for Custom Theme Creation Click to Enable Style Applied

What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications Develop Applications Faster than Ever Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms

View Multiple and Single Model Version Differences Perform distributed team development and integrate models using compare functionality View list of local model modifications, compare versions and rollback to previous states Displays Multiple Model Differences Compares Builder Call Values Identifies Builder Call Differences Displays Single Model History

Identify and Add User Modified Files to Source Control Easily identify files for addition to source control repositories Click to Search for Modified Files View Modified Files For Addition to Source Control

What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications Develop Applications Faster than Ever Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms

Expose Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds From Back-End Systems Rapidly generate REST based reusable services layer leveraging extensive library of pre-built connectors Specify Service to Expose Generate Test Harness Automatically Creates Input Variables Automatically Creates Feed Parameters Click to View Feed

Consume and Visualize Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Enhanced REST builder simplifies creating applications from complex REST feeds Click to Extract Feed Parameters Automatically Creates Variables Visualize Feed Data Restructures Data for Use with UI Builders

What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications Develop Applications Faster than Ever Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms

Create and Deploy Widgets for Use in Situational Applications Generate widgets empowering business users to create new applications Provides support for widget events and dynamic widget customization Create… Assemble… Solve Challenges… Wire Widgets Click to View Details Display Details

What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications Develop Applications Faster than Ever Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms

Immediately Develop Applications Out-Of-The-Box Installer provides Eclipse and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE) Automatically creates WASCE project deployment configuration and Cloudscape data source Installer Provides Everything Needed to Get Started Including Eclipse, WASCE and Integrated Tutorials

Generate Applications in Minutes Using Wizards Create Portlets… Generate Portlets, Widgets, Rich Client and Web Applications from common data sources: Databases, Excel, REST Create Widgets… Specify Title Create Web Applications… Rename, Enable Sorting and Change Column Display Order Create Rich Client Applications… Add Link to Details Enable Paging

Easily Leverage Relational Data in Applications System detects database connection issues and provides actionable system guided checklists to help ensure developer success Click to Launch System Guided Remediation Actions Checklist Provides Expert Guidance Click to View Details System Initiates Actions to Help Ensure Success

What's New in Portlet Factory 6.1.2 Rapidly Generate Compelling User Interfaces Develop Applications in a Distributed Team Environment Expose and Consume Web 2.0 Style REST Feeds Create and Deploy Widgets for Use In Situational Applications Develop Applications Faster than Ever Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms

Develop Applications Using Latest IDEs Provides extensive support for IDEs including: Eclipse 3.4 Rational Application Developer 7.5 Rational Software Architect 7.5 WebSphere Information Developer 6.2

Deploy Portlets to More Platforms Deploy portlets to WebSphere Application Server 7.0 JSR-286 container Deploy JSR168/286 Portlets to WAS 7.0

Deploy Applications to the Latest Deployment Platforms Provides extensive support for IBM platforms including: IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Enable and Extend 6.1.0.1 IBM WebSphere Portal Express 6.1.0.1 IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 IBM Mashup Center 1.1

Deploy Applications to the Latest O/S Platforms Provides extensive updates for O/S platform support: Platform Version(s) Windows Server 2003 Datacenter edition Server 2008 AIX 6.1 FP4 OS/400 v6ri Red Hat Linux Server 5.1 Enterprise and Advanced Server Editions Enterprise Linux Enterprise and Advanced Server Update 6 (on zSeries hardware) SUSE Linux Enterprise SLES for OS/390 9, 2.6 Kernel 31 bit Enterprise SLES 10.1 zOS 1.8, 1.9 HP-UX 11iv2