What's New in IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory and Introducing IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets

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1 What's New in IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory and Introducing IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets Jason Cornell, Product Manager WebSphere Portlet Factory and Dashboard Accelerator 2009 IBM Corporation

2 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

3 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

4 IBM Software Group Lotus Software WebSphere Portlet Factory Features at a Glance Supercharges Delivery of Rich, Interactive Web 2.0 Applications Rich, Interactive Applications with advanced Dojo toolkit User Interface widgets and controls Visual Application Development for fast, simple application construction Information Integration and Transformation of data sourced from multiple, disparate back-end systems Hassle-Free Deployment to remote systems running on-premise or in the cloud Skinnable application User Interfaces for consistent branding and rapid rebranding Interoperable, Standards Based Applications via new support for JSON, WSRP 2.0 and JAX-WS Product release dates and/or capabilities referenced in these materials may change at any time at IBM s sole discretion based on market opportunities or other factors, and are not intended to be a commitment to future product or feature availability in any way IBM Corporation

5 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

6 Generate More Compelling User Interfaces Out-of-the-Box Delivers exceptional web experiences by providing compelling generated User Interfaces out-of-the-box Shows Current Records Display vs Total Records Improved Sort Column Indicator Click to Navigate to Specific Page Click to Navigate to Next or Previous Page Improved Button Appearance Click to Display Subset or All Records Enter to Navigate to Specific Page

7 Rapidly Modify Look and Feel with Skinnable Applications 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 New Enterprise Theme Style Applied IBM Software Group Lotus software Includes Updated Click to Enable Support for Page Tabs and Paging Links/ Buttons

8 Create Sophisticated Web 2.0 Style User Interfaces Easily deliver polished, nuanced User Interfaces with depth and complexity including rounded corners and drop shadows Create UIs with Rounded Corners and Drop Shadows

9 Deliver Exceptional User Interfaces with Dojo Widgets Easily create forms with advanced Dojo User Interface widgets including pickers, validators, formatters, spinners and drop down buttons Click to Display Options Highlights Selected Form Element Click to Launch Date Picker IBM Software Group Lotus Click to Launch Time Picker Click to Adjust Numeric Values Formats Input as Currency, Numbers, Dates and Times Highlights Validation Errors as User Types Addresses, Dates, Times and Numbers Easily Add Any software Dojo W idget to Create Even More Advanced UIs Create Custom Validators using Regular Expressions

10 Increase User Interface Interactivity Using Visual Dojo Animation Effects Create highly interactive, visually stunning user interfaces by adding Dojo animations to application functions Supported animations include: Wipe in/out Fade in/out Highlight Animate Fade User Interface Create Custom Animations and Chain Animations Together for Even More Visually Stunning Effects Click to Fire Animation Wipe User Interface

11 Dynamically Provide User Feedback with Progress Indicators Improve user experience and maintain user focus by indicating progress of application functions Supported Dojo indicators include: Progress bar Animated spinner Text only IBM ANIMATED SPINNER Specify Custom Images to Create Advanced Progress Indicators Software Group Lotus software PROGRESS BAR POPUP (MODAL) ANIMATED SPINNER

12 Simplify Display of Complex, Hierarchical Data Using Dojo Tree Organize the display of hierarchical data using a dynamic Dojo tree with customizable icons and labels Display Custom Icons Click to Expand/ Collapse Tree Display Custom Labels Click to Fire Event

13 Create and Display Richly Formatted Text Using Dojo Rich Text Editor Apply advanced formatting to text input including font style and effects, numbered and bullet lists and embedded links and images Apply Advanced Formatting by Clicking Icons on Toolbar Edit Text Like Office Productivity Tools

14 Interactive Capture User Input Using Dojo Popup Dialog Boxes Popup Dojo dialog boxes and prompt the user for input, while disabling the triggering application Click to Launch Popup Dialog Popup Launches Modally Blocking Access to Triggering Application Prompts User for Input

15 Return Search Results in Real-Time with Dojo TypeAhead Search Improved type ahead search functionality generates tabular results user interface automatically Enter Search Criteria Displays Results Matching Criteria in Real-Time Automatically Generates Search Results UI Create a Custom Results UI for Advanced Layouts

16 Display Tabular Data in Feature-Rich Dojo Grid Automatically provides column sorting and resizing, alternate row shading and event support Automatically Enables Click to Sort Columns Drag to Change Column Display Order or Width Double Click to Fire Application Event Automatically Applies Alternate Row Shading Modify Grid Content with Advanced Formatting (i.e. add links, date/number formatting etc.)

17 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

18 Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Create and modify applications visually leveraging palette based drag and drop Right Mouse Click to Rename, Hide and Enable Sorting on Columns/Fields Add Application Functions via Drag and Drop

19 Quickly and Simply Modify Application Layout Visually Using Drag and Drop Modify UI layout visually by leveraging palette based layout controls and dragging and dropping form elements Drag and Drop Add column, row and grid containers to specify custom layout Layout Controls onto UI Drag form elements to adjust layout and positioning

20 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

21 Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple BackEnd Systems Deliver the high-value information your customers demand by simply altering and combining data from multiple, disparate backend systems Key transform capabilities include: Combine Filter Group IBM Software Group Chain Transformations Together for Advanced Data Manipulations Lotus software Map Merge Modify Sort Automatically integrated with data service and data paging capabilities: Transformation operations produce a data service Existing services can be transformed pre or post invocation

22 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

23 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems Provides fast, hassle-free deployment to remote or local IBM W ebsphere Portal or IBM W ebsphere Application Server systems running on-premise or in the cloud Now leverages Java Management Extensions (JMX) for even faster deployment times Deploy Portlets and Web Applications to Remote or Local Systems WebSphere Portal Now Available in the Cloud!

24 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

25 Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Environment Use IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory with IBM Rational ClearCase, CVS and Subversion with no configuration required Automatically excludes IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory framework files from source control systems leveraging Eclipse team support features

26 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

27 Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Updated REST capabilities with support for consuming JSON (Java Script Object Notation) structured data New support for Java API for XML Based W eb Services (JAXW S) Qualified support for W eb Services for Remote Portlets (W SRP 2.0)* *

28 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

29 Immediately Develop Applications Out-of-the-Box Installer provides Eclipse and IBM W ebsphere Application Server Community Edition (W ASCE) Automatically creates W ASCE project deployment configuration and Cloudscape data source for use with sample database Installer Provides Everything Needed to Get Started Including Eclipse, WASCE and Integrated Tutorials

30 Create Applications Faster with Streamlined and Optimized Designer Functions Builder call list groups builder calls and provides expand and collapse capabilities Display Builder Calls by Grouping Click to Expand or Collapse Builder Call Grouping IBM Software Group Lotus software Intelligent indirect reference picker contextually filters available selections Click to Show More Selection Options Display Relevant Suggestions Contextually

31 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

32 Create Faster More Scalable Applications Improved application and memory performance enables creation of IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory applications that run faster and scale to help meet the requirements of the most demanding environments EnhancedIBM discardable variable increases scalability by Software Group Lotus software minimizing session size Now provides intelligent integration with data service capabilities in conjunction with DynaCache managed persistence Optimized W eb service processing enables even more efficient handling of large W eb service result sets

33 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 Rapidly Deliver Applications with Exceptional Rich, Interactive User Interfaces Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag and Drop Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End Systems Deploy Applications to Remote Systems software Effortlessly IBM Software Group Lotus Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team Environment Create Interoperable Applications with Updated Support for Leading Open Standards Develop Applications Faster than Ever Create Faster, More Scalable Applications Develop and Deploy Applications on the Latest Platforms IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

34 Develop Applications Using the Latest IDEs Provides extensive updates for IDE support including: Eclipse IBM Rational Application Developer IBM Rational Software Architect IBM W ebsphere Integration Developer 6.2

35 Deploy Applications to the Latest Platforms Running On-Premise or in the Cloud Provides extensive updates for IBM platform support including: IBM W ebsphere Portal Server, Enable and Extend IBM W ebsphere Portal Express IBM Mashup Center 2.0 IBM W ebsphere Application Server 7.0.x IBM W ebsphere Application Server Community Edition

36 Agenda W hat's New in IBM W ebsphere Portlet Factory v6.1.5 IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets and Connectors

37 IBM Software Group Lotus Software New IBM Lotus Connections Portlets and Connectors Catalog Asset Rapidly Incorporate Social Aspects of Web 2.0 into WebSphere Portal Provides fastest and easiest way to incorporate Lotus Connections in WebSphere Portal including: Blogs Dogear Activities Delivers native Connections user experience in WebSphere Portal including ease of use, functional behavior and color schemes Enables unlimited customization via WebSphere Portlet Factory for unparalleled flexibility catalog.searchterms=connections&gobutton.x=0&gobutton.y=0&catalog.catalogname=websphere+portal&catalog.start=0 Product release dates and/or capabilities referenced in these materials may change at any time at IBM s sole discretion based on market opportunities or other factors, and are not intended to be a commitment to future product or feature availability in any way IBM Corporation

38 Additional WebSphere Portlet Factory Information and Resources WebSphere Portlet Factory Next Beta Overview Presentation WebSphere Portlet Factory Next Beta and v6.1.2 Trial WebSphere Portlet Factory Learning Roadmap WebSphere Porltet Factory Wikis and Forums WebSphere Portlet Factory Redbook and Rapid Application Development with WebSphere Portlet Factory Book via Amazon.com WebSphere Portlet Factory Site and Product Documentation Education (Search for Keyword Portlet Factory)

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