1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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

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

21. 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