IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 1 Deliver an Irresistible User Experience  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 address, or map their location  Click on an order item and..  see current delivery state  check customer Account details Stuttgart Live Text – Give users quick in-place access to additional information

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 2 Deliver an Irresistible User Experience 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

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 3 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

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 4 Give Power Without Losing Control  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!

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 5 WSRP 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 Portlet Container Portal Server 2 (Portlet Server) Portlet Container WSRP 1.0 App Server 1 (Portlet Server) Keep Running with Less Effort

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 6 Keep Running with Less Effort Configure Portlet 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

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 7 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

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation Leverage Your Investments  Simplicity of iFrames without the drawbacks – No double header or dual navigation  HTML 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

IBM WebSphere Portal © 2008 IBM Corporation 9 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./ : Leverage Your Investments