What's New in IBM WebSphere Portal Version 8? Open Mic November 6, 2012

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1 What's New in IBM WebSphere Portal Version 8? Open Mic November 6, 2012 Stefan Liesche Web Experience Solution and Platform Chief Architect, STSM Stefan Koch Chief Programmer - WebSphere Portal IBM Collaboration Solutions

2 IBM's Exceptional Web Experience Mission: Helping You to... Deliver Exceptional Web Experiences Differentiate yourself to your customers Drive revenue and loyalty with your partners Enable productive and efficient employee web interactions Across Multiple Channels Social, mobile, web... In a consistent, scalable, and personalized manner 2

3 Reach Engage Create Target Socialize Optimize Integrate Applications 3 Content Processes Realize

4 Exceptional Web Experience Enablers Web ready presentation layer Enable your web design teams and agencies to flexible define how your site should look like. Using HTML, CSS and Java Script for openness and flexibility. Flexible Creation and Administration Interfaces Enable site owners and content owners to do more themselves when creating and working on the site Easily create and manage web content, pages, site promotions to have your site provide what you like. composite applications Target Content and support Customization Provide the right information to the right user at the role-based processdriven in context right time. Consistent standardized programming model Open to extend to new opportunities as they emerge IBM WebSphere Portal Empower more non-technical people to influence and build their site!! 4

5 What's New and What' Next for Exceptional Web Experiences Simple: Content Targeting; Campaigns Social IBM Connections Portlets Refresh Community Pages Profiles & Files Entitlement Social network publishing (Connections, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) Community monitoring and administration enhancements Social Rendering of Connections data Mobile Content Template Catalog v3.1 Managed Pages Inline authoring of content Inline targeting of content Creation of micro sites via Site Wizard Mobile Web Experience Theme Response Theme UX Guidelines & Samples Worklight Entitlement Responsive design (to device & screen) automatically Simplified IBM Worklight integration November

6 What's New and What' Next for Exceptional Web Experiences Cloud Integration Digital Asset Management Hypervisor Editions Ready to Run Cloud Images More flexibility to deploy on private cloud and public cloud New cloud images for private cloud can run on IBM PureSystems Unified Task List Web Application Bridge Web Application Integrator IBM Connections single install, more portlets Social Rendering of Connections data IBM UX Screen Flow Manager Dashboard Coach Portlet Support Digital Asset Management plugpoints Add best-of-breed digital asset managing/editing capabilities November

7 Within 15 Minutes, a Business User Can: 1 Create a new page for press releases. 3 Change one of the promos to point at her new article / page. 4 Extend the page content with featured news 2 Update the content 5 Share what she has done! November

8 Managing Pages (I) Content authors add new articles to the page. They can work in parallel on different articles in the same project scope Content author creates a new project. He adds pages/components and changes page layout etc. Authoring Server The approver can preview the project changes as if they where live and approve them The project is submitted for approval Once the changes are approved they are visible for all authors on the system November

9 Managing Pages (II) Authoring Server The approved web site changes get automatically picked up by the syndication engine and transported to the production server Production Rendering Server End-users can see the updated web site November

10 IBM Social Portal Usage Patterns Increasingly flexible approaches for using WebSphere Portal and IBM Connections together Portalfront-end 10 Hybrid Sideby-Side

11 Web Application Integrator for IBM WebSphere Portal NEW Quickly integrate WebSphere Portal banner, navigation and footer into IBM Connections or other Web Applications. Navigation and look optimized for each user specifically. November NEW: Web Application Integrator fully supports WP and WP 8.0 modularized Themes.

12 Example of a Community Page Create communities around a specific topic Encourage sharing of ideas, driving innovation Drive deeper communications and dialog with the experts at your fingertip. November

13 Community-Aware IBM Connections Portlets Blogs Summary/Detail Member/Profiles Summary/Detail Forums Summary/Detail Activities Community Overview Wikis Portlets can be used by anonymous users on your website. November action=editdocument&documentid=d7ec26bfc0e6229f852579f

14 Sense & Learn. Optimize & Measure November

15 Mobile Themes - Control look and feel, Site and Portlet Navigation Look and feel of the mobile experience Site navigation using common mobile interactions such as carousel, drill down and scrolling tabs Page layout for presentation of page portlet navigation November

16 WebSphere Portal + IBM Worklight Extending Exceptional Web Experience Delivery Web Sites Integrated content/applications into a unified web experiences optimized for desktop browsers Mobile Web Optimized for mobile browsers (phones, tablets) using themes and responsive web design Strong multichannel capabilities before... NEW Mobile Hybrid Extending Portal experiences to ondevice and app stores with entitled IBM Worklight capabilities...extended even further! November

17 Easily Add/Remove Features From the Theme Maximize performance by removing unused features Modularization of Portal CSS, JavaScript, and configuration/init code enables safe removal without touching code CSS and JavaScript for included features is minimized + combined at runtime to reduce requests and download size Use the modularization framework to add your own features to the theme in a performant, maintainable fashion November

18 IBM's Exceptional Web Experience Strategy Helping You Create Differentiated, Engaging Online Experiences Integrated Speed time to market with a core platform Open Leverage & extend existing data sources through robust integration capabilities Social Drive innovation & improve collaboration thru socially-infused experiences Instrumented Support evidence-based decision making through analytics Contextual Increase customer satisfaction by with experiences tailored to a user's location, attributes, preferences, device, behaviors. Flexible adapt to handle the latest advancements + technology changes November Our vision is to help you realize the art of the possible for engaging your customers on the web

19 Web - WAB How to Application Integrate WebBridge Application Bridge (WAB) with Portal 8.0 Open Mic November 6, 2012 Bhava Mada WebSphere Portal Level 2 Support Navneet Goyal Business Portlet Development Team

20 Agenda What is WAB? What are all components involved? Simplified Conceptual Flow and How it works? How to access Virtual Web Applications? What are all the steps to integrate the WAB with Portal? 20

21 What is Web Application Bridge (WAB)? The IBM Web Application Bridge (WAB) is a feature built on top of Portal and WebSphere Application Server that facilitates low-cost, At the glass integrate web-based content providers, such as the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 server, with IBM WebSphere Portal using IFrames and reverse proxy technology. 21

22 IBM Web Application Bridge Components: The Web Application Bridge consists of 4 major components 1> Web Application Manager portlet This component is used to manages persistence & retrieval of Virtual Web Application configuration 2> Web Dock portlet This component shows the content that is fetched from backend sites on a portal page. 3>Engine component This component contains the system logic necessary to handle and orchestrate the other components of the web application bridge. 4>Reverse proxy component This component handles http based communication with the backend sites. 22

23 WAB - Components Virtual Web Application Dock Portlet Virtual Web Application Manager Portlet Virtual Web Application Proxy Servlet Web Application Bridge Engine Personalizatio n Portal Access Control WebSphere Portal Server WebSphere Application Server 23 JCR

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26 Accessing Virtual Web Applications 26 Once the virtual Web application is created, Web content from the content provider is available via the portal server using the hostname and port of the WebSphere Portal server or cluster and the original path and query, e.g. Original URL Virtual Web Application URL The user interface of the virtual Web application can be placed on a portal page using a new portlet called the Web Dock portlet.

27 Integrating the WAB with WebSphere Portal is a multi-step process Step 1 > Creating a new application from the Virtual web application manager portlet. Log on to WebSphere Portal using the fully qualified host name. Go to Administration -> Portlet Management -> Virtual Web Application Manager. 27

28 Optional: Click New -> Application category to create a new category for your application components. Click New -> Application component to create a new application. 28

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30 Enter the following information on the required Basic tab: >Select HTTP or HTTPS to define the URI scheme. >Select the appropriate Host from the list of available web servers. The host name should be the fully qualified host name of your backend server. >Enter a display name for your application. >Enter a description for your application. >Select the appropriate category for your application. >Add users and groups to define access control permissions for the available roles. On the Connection, Authentication, and Localization pages, you can accept the defaults or update the information according to your business requirements: 30

31 > Click Connection to define how the browser communicates with the web application: -Select the allowed HTTP methods. -Choose to forward the existing user agent or select a custom user agent. -Click the Persist Connection button to change between allowing the connection to persist or not allowing it. -Enter a value for the read timeout. -Enter a value for the connection timeout. -Enter a value to define the number of allowed cookies. 31

32 > Click Authentication to define how users authenticate with the web application: - Select the appropriate authentication type and then fill in any additional parameters for that type None: Choose this option if no authentication is required to access the backend server. HTTP: Choose this option if access to the backend server requires basic authentication Form: Choose this option if access to the backend server requires a form, such as Gmail Restriction: If you select Form, the user must enter the correct credentials in the Personalize mode. The user remains logged in for the session timeout duration. By design, when the session times out, the Web Application Bridge re-authenticates with the backend server. Therefore, until the user logs out or the session times out, if a user provides incorrect credentials in the Personalized mode, there is no error message about the wrong credentials. Restriction: If you are using an internet application that has additional complex security features regarding client identity, the Web Application Bridge may not be able to access the application. One example of an internet application with complex security features is Yahoo. 32

33 IWA: Choose this option if you are using Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation (SPNEGO) as the web authenticator. This option allows the user to get logged in with a token transfer from the Active Directory server. - Add required parameters for headers, cookies, and filters that are used for authentication. > Click Localization to add any additional languages supported for the web application. Click Save to save your application. 33

34 Step 2 > After creating the application, you must add a Web Dock portlet onto a page so that users can access the web application: > if necessary, log on to WebSphere Portal as the administrator using the fully qualified host name. > Navigate to Administration -> Manage Pages. > Click Content Root. > Click New Page and create a page for your web application. > After selecting or creating a page, click the Edit Page Properties icon. > Click Advanced options. > Click I want to set parameters. Enter the following information and then click Add: New parameter: resourceaggregation.profile New value: Enter the profile override for the page, for example profiles/profile_full.json > Click OK to save the new parameter. > Click OK to save the changes to the page properties. > Click Edit mode. > Click the Content tab. > Locate the Web Dock portlet and then click the Add to page icon. > Click Save. 34

35 Note: The Administrator is required to grant the privileged user role to the users who access the Page that contains the WebDock portlet. 35

36 Step 3 > Finally you configure the WebDock portlet to define from which backend site the content must be shown. >Go to the page that contains the Web Dock portlet you want to edit. >Click the Display menu arrow. >Select Edit Shared Settings. >Edit the necessary fields to configure the virtual web application container. >Click Save. 36

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