All portal projects need tuning at different phases in their lifecycles. Considering lower-level environments are tuned, tuning is then applied to production. There are many layers of tuning for a portal environment. One needs to peel the onion in order to drill down into the exercise and understand what needs to be done and where. The first thing to know is what compelling evidence exists to justify parameter, component, application, server, or any other tuning. All systems need tuning at one point or another. Once portal server is installed, everything is installed with out-of-the-box default values for the most part. From the operating system to the network layer to the application layer on portal, to the backend layer, there are many opportunities for improving the quality of service via tuning. The tuning exercise is based on a system-level agreement goal or on an undesirable response time and end user experience (during performance testing) or combined functionality...
IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
Overview of this book
IBM WebSphere® Portal is a cost- effective, scalable, and proven solution for the portal enterprise space. Given the depth and the breadth of WebSphere Portal and the challenges of developing a portal project, you need a book that covers all the nuances of the entire portal project lifecycle. This book accomplishes just that.
In this book, we cover topics that range from portal assessment, governance, and architecture, to design and development. These topics are covered not only within these traditional areas, but also within the cloud environment context. Keeping both contexts in mind, several chapters are dedicated to portal and portlet testing, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, best practices, and tuning. The cloud option is also analyzed and discussed for hosting, developing, and publishing portal applications. We also cover Web Experience Factory (WEF) as the tool of choice for portlet development. We take you from the introduction to the development of advanced portlets in an intuitive and efficient manner. We cover not only common topics, such as builders, models, and user interface development, but also advanced topics, such as Dojo builders, Ajax techniques, and WEF performance.
Within the WEF space, we cover other topics, which have never been covered before by any other competing book. You will learn how to develop multichannel applications, including web mobile applications and you will learn about the model types available for portlet development, including when and how to utilize them. We also present and discuss numerous aspects and facets of implementing a WEF project and what it takes to successfully deliver them.
The richness and the profundity of the topics combined with an intuitive and well-structured presentation of the chapters will provide you with all the information you need to master your skills with the IBM WebSphere Portal project lifecycle and Web Experience Factory.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Portal Assessment
Portal Governance: Adopting the Mantra of Business Performance through IT Execution
Portal Requirements Engineering
Portal Architecture: Analysis and Design
Portal Golden and Cloud Architecture
Portal Build, Deployment, and Release Management
Introduction to Web Experience Factory
Service Layers
Invoking Web Services
Building the Application User Interface
The Dojo Builders and Ajax
WEF Profiling
Types of Models
WEF and Mobile Web Applications
How to Implement a Successful Portal Project with WEF
Portlet and Portal Testing
Portal and Portlet Performance Monitoring
Portal Troubleshooting
Portal, WEF, and Portlet Tuning
Customer Reviews