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• IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
  • Table of Contents
  • IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
  • Credits
  • Foreword
  • About the Authors
  • About the Reviewers
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  • Preface
    • What this book covers
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Downloading the example code
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Portal Assessment
    • IBM WebSphere Portal (WP), IBM Web Experience Factory (WEF), and the cloud
    • SaaS/IaaS/PaaS cloud engagement models
    • Getting startedcase study
      • Step 1 background, objective, and approach
      • Step 2 business need and portal alignment:
        • Business value alignment
        • Business drivers and current state
          • Current state, future state, and a road map
        • Current state pain points and how portal capabilities can fill the gap
      • Step 3 A "Day-in-the-Life" demonstration
      • Step 4 the financial case
      • Step 5 recommendations and next steps POV
    • Cloud use cases applied
      • Cloud approach with IBM enterprise SmartCloud initial high-level tasks
      • Cloud approach with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) initial high-level tasks
    • Portal and Cloudonomics sense
    • Summary
  • 2. Portal Governance: Adopting the Mantra of Business Performance through IT Execution
    • Social and technical evolution
    • Five steps to governance
      • Establish a sense of urgency
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Create the guiding coalition
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Develop a vision strategy
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Communicate the changed vision
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Empower broad-based action
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
    • Portal governance best practices
      • Formulate a portal governance committee
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Obtain Executive Sponsorship
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Establish a Portal Center of Excellence
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Develop governance effectiveness metrics
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Time to develop and release new portal artifacts A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Adopt and adapt portal governance
        • A2Z Bullion Bank action
      • Adopting virtual portals A2Z Bullion Bank action
        • Typical portal roles
    • Value interests
    • Summary
  • 3. Portal Requirements Engineering
    • The discipline of requirements and requirements as a discipline
      • List users, existing systems, and functional requirements
      • Derive actors and use cases to create the use case model
        • Storyboard or wireframes
      • Inventory-large reusable assets
      • Identify delta use cases
      • Document nonfunctional requirements
        • Portal call center channel
        • Portal self-service (core banking) channel
        • Workload distribution
      • Validate requirements with the customer
    • Summary
  • 4. Portal Architecture: Analysis and Design
    • Cloud architectural model
    • Portal architectural decisions
    • Information architecture wireframes and storyboards
      • Portlet
      • Portlet view
      • Transition data
      • POM and service design conceptual overview
      • Service to data design overview best practice artifacts
    • Enterprise reference architecture simplifying complexity with DataPower and all handlers
    • A2Z banking reference and portal application architecture
    • A2Z call center reference and portal application architecture
    • Cloud as the fabric for resilient architecture
    • Architecting for nonfunctional requirements
    • Summary
  • 5. Portal Golden and Cloud Architecture
    • Reusable architecture assets and IBM Portal Accelerators
      • IBM Accelerators for IBM WebSphere Portal
      • IBM Retail Banking Template for WebSphere Portal (v2.0)
      • IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator
      • IBM Dashboard Accelerator
      • IBM Collaboration Accelerator
      • IBM Content Accelerator
      • Portlet Catalog and Lotus Greenhouse
    • Cloud execution environment and architectural model for cloud computing IBM cloud reference architecture
    • Highly available portal golden and SOA reference architecture
    • Virtual portals, realms, and cluster partitioning
    • Portal collaboration, pervasive, and voice runtime architectures
    • Portal security architecture
      • Single Sign-On (SSO) patterns
    • Portal architecture and performance modeling cloud and traditional paradigms
    • Portal operational model and workload analysis
    • IBM lab tools mainframe and distributed
      • IBM zCP3000
      • IBM Automatic Model Building using InferENCE (AMBIENCE)
    • Commercial solutions and tools mainframe and distributed
      • CA HyPerformix
      • BMC
    • Cloud capacity planning IBM SmartCloud Monthly Cost Estimator
    • Cloud capacity planning Amazon Monthly Calculator
    • Test architecture and test data governance
      • Architecture assessment and operational technical readiness review
    • Summary
  • 6. Portal Build, Deployment, and Release Management
    • Portal build, deployment, and release management
    • Best practices and Jazz-enabled staging
    • Portal tools
      • XMLAccess
      • ReleaseBuilder
      • Site management tool
      • Subsequent releases
      • Release scenarios
      • Portal scripting
      • Manual steps prior to using ReleaseBuilder
    • WEF and WP environment high-level release steps
      • Step 1 Initial release preparing the source environment
      • Step 2 building the release
      • Step 3 preparing the target environment
      • Step 4 importing the release
      • Step 5 post-transfer actions
      • Building a portlet WAR for production
        • Excluding files from a published WAR
          • Using the .excludeFromServer file
          • Global exclude across all projects
          • Exclude on a project-by-project basis
          • Using the **/nodeploy** directory
      • Publishing to the JSR 286 portal container
    • Portlet deployment
      • Checklist for portal artifacts
      • Checklist for WEF-related JARs
      • web.xml processing and templates
      • web.xml template files
      • The WEB-INF\web.xml file
      • web.xml processing at project creation and publishing
      • Other things that impact web.xml
      • Themes and skins deployment
    • Portal resources management via policies
    • Publishing to a remote AMI instance on the Amazon Cloud
    • Cloud-enabled environment provisioning, deployment, and release management with IBM Workload Deployer
    • Summary
  • 7. Introduction to Web Experience Factory
    • What is Web Experience Factory?
    • Key benefits of using Web Experience Factory for portlet development
    • The development environment
    • Key components of WEF builders, models, and profiles
      • Builders
        • Simple and complex builders
        • The face of builders
        • Builder artifacts
        • Inspecting content created by builders
      • Models
        • Modeling
        • Code generation versus software automation
      • Profiles
    • Regeneration engine
    • Creating a WEF project
    • Creating your first Portlet
    • Executing your portlet from the designer
    • Deploying your portlet
    • Summary
  • 8. Service Layers
    • The Service Consumer and Service Provider patterns in WEF
    • Service builders
    • Creating a service model
      • Explaining the Service Definition builder inputs
      • Creating sample data for the Service Provider model
        • Explanation about Simple Schema Generator builder inputs
      • Emulating the data retrieval
      • Creating a service operation
    • Testing the Service Provider models
    • Revisiting the Logical Operations
    • Invoking the Service Provider model from the Service Consumer model
    • Summary
  • 9. Invoking Web Services
    • Portal projects leveraging web services
    • The Web Service Call builder
      • General
      • Request Parameters
      • Request SOAP Header
      • Service Information
      • WS-Security
      • Advanced
    • Web service inputs from other builders
    • Sample model
    • Data transformation and manipulation of service response
    • The transform builders
    • IXml Java interface
    • Summary
  • 10. Building the Application User Interface
    • Choosing the right builders to create the UI
    • Understanding how WEF builds UI
      • Data-driven development approach
        • Modifying the content created by WEF
          • Modification through builders and the Design pane
          • Modification through the HTML code
    • High-level and low-level builders
    • Data Service User Interface builder
      • Creating a simple database Service Provider model
      • Working with the Data Services User Interface builder
        • Data Services User Interface overview
          • General
          • List Page Settings
          • Settings for the Create and Update Page
          • Page-to-Page Navigation
          • Label Translation Settings
      • Building the Data Services User Interface sample model
        • General
        • List Page Settings
        • Settings for the Create and Update Page
        • Page to Page Navigation
        • Label Translation Settings
        • Paging
        • Table
        • Update
    • Modifying the generated application
      • Design panel
        • Rich Data Definition builder
        • Theme builder
        • Modifier builders
          • Modify the base pages used by high-level builders
    • HTML Templates in WEF
    • Summary
  • 11. The Dojo Builders and Ajax
    • What is Dojo and Ajax
      • The problem
      • The solution
    • The benefits of using Dojo and Ajax in portal development
    • The Dojo and Ajax related builders
    • Dojo Rich Text Editor sample
      • Creating the model
      • Adding the builders
      • Adding the variables
      • Adding the Dojo builders
      • Adding the Text builders
      • Adding the processing section
      • Testing the model
      • Implementing Post-Action for partial page refresh
    • Dojo Tree builder sample
      • Client Event Handler
    • Summary
  • 12. WEF Profiling
    • Profiling
      • Defining some WEF profiling terms
      • Profile selection handler
    • Profile set editor
      • The Manage Profiles tab
      • The Entries tab
      • Select handler
    • Profiling sample
    • Sample portlet exposing profiles through the portals Configure option
      • Creating a profile set
      • Profile-enabling builder inputs
      • Providing values to profile entries
      • Testing profiling from the designer
        • Testing the sample portlet in the designer
      • The Portlet Adapter builder
      • Creating a portal page
      • Placing the portlet on the Sales page
      • Exposing the individual values in portal
    • Role-based profiling
      • Building portlet for role-based profiling
      • Profile set for role-based profiling
      • WebSphere Portal configuration for role-based profiling
      • Endless possibilities with profiling
    • Summary
  • 13. Types of Models
    • One portlet, many models
      • Summary of the model types
    • Model types demystified
      • User interface models
        • The Rule of 50
        • The Portlet Adapter builder
      • Service models
      • Imported models
        • Sample scenario for imported model
      • Base models
      • Configuring imported models through profiling
      • Model container
      • Linked models
    • Summary
  • 14. WEF and Mobile Web Applications
    • Mobile devices
    • Desktop applications versus mobile web applications
    • WEF handling of mobile web applications
      • Mobile web application sample
      • A2Z web mobile strategy
        • Requirements
        • Expected outcome
      • Multichannel web application sample
        • Adding variables to your application
        • Adding pages to your application
        • Adding profile set to your application
        • Adding more builders to your application
        • Testing your application
        • Adding header and links
        • Adding the Data Page and Data Layout builders to your application
        • Testing the final version of your application
        • Testing your application on an iPhone simulator
        • Expanding the sample model
    • Summary
  • 15. How to Implement a Successful Portal Project with WEF
    • Planning for success
    • Required skills for developing a portlet with WEF
      • Difference between a portal project and a JEE project
      • Successful WEF project requires experienced WEF developers
      • Training and mentoring
      • Hiring or contracting an experienced portal architect/WEF developer
    • Development environment
      • WebSphere Portal Server installation
      • WebSphere Portal Server Community Edition WAS CE
      • Development IDE
        • WEF on Eclipse
        • WEF on RAD
      • Source control with WEF
      • Avoiding merging of model files
    • XMLAccess scripts
    • Roles, permissions, access level
      • Authentication versus authorization
      • Portal resources versus portlet resources
      • Portlet resources and WEF
    • Development of POCs or prototypes
      • Benefits to the product management and business analysis teams
      • Benefits to the portal architecture and development teams
    • WEF project folder structure
      • Folder structure for the servable content
      • Folder structure for the nonservable content
    • Summary
  • 16. Portlet and Portal Testing
    • Test strategy and plan
    • Functional/nonfunctional test tools and automation
      • Functional Testing Automation
      • Nonfunctional testing
    • Test environment and test data
    • Overall test metrics
      • Response time
      • Java Virtual Machine
      • JDBC pool
      • Thread pool
      • Session size
      • Elapsed time
      • CPU
      • Parallel Portlet Rendering
      • Caching
    • Portal testing
      • Benchmarking portal validating NFRs via load testing
    • Portlet testing time to walk the walk
    • WEF testing
      • Comparator
      • Threshold
      • Message
      • flushImmediately
    • Security testing
    • Performance anti-patterns
    • Summary
      • Other references:
  • 17. Portal and Portlet Performance Monitoring
    • Business and technology monitoring
    • APM as a discipline choose your weapons
    • Portal server monitoring with ITCAM for WebSphere
      • Problem determination memory diagnostics
      • The Memory Leak Diagnosis view
      • The Server view
      • The Portal view
      • Monitoring slowest portlets
      • Monitoring contentions and locks
      • Setting traps and alerts based on performance thresholds
      • Code performance monitoring via Java profiling
    • PMI is your best friend
    • Web analytics
    • Cloud monitoring
    • Green Data Center monitoring
    • Summary
  • 18. Portal Troubleshooting
    • Problem determination and troubleshooting
    • Divide and conquer
      • Project lifecycle interdisciplines
      • Use case
      • Skills and tools level
    • IBM Support Assistantgeneral tools
    • ISA for WebSphere Portal
      • DIR Download, install, and run
      • Choose Problem Type
      • Enable Split-Second (if needed)
      • View output and open case with IBM
    • Troubleshooting in WebSphere Application Server v8
      • Trace level debug with ARM turned on
    • Splunk engine
    • Summary
  • 19. Portal, WEF, and Portlet Tuning
    • Tuning strategy and knowledge
    • Tuning lifecycle
    • Tuning candidates and test cases
      • Bottleneck 1 broker services registration services 7 seconds of response time results with a 4-second max goal to achieve
      • Bottleneck 2 broker services lease rate services tuning for response time
      • Bottleneck 3 call center services softphone incoming call and live call portal tuning for throughput
    • Performance tuning a deep dive into WEF
      • Performance best practices
      • Addressing memory consumption
      • Size of result sets
        • Stateless services
      • Paging data
      • Cache Control builder and caching strategy
        • Caching strategy
    • Performance-related log files
      • Model Actions log file
      • Server Stats log file
      • Session Size log file
        • Enabling session size tracing
        • Analyzing the session size log file
    • Summary
  • 20. Portal Post-production
    • A2Z Bank business and technical monitoring
    • Measuring portal and cloud success
    • Training users and support
      • Enabling impersonation
    • Summary
  • Index

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