Portal Project sample

The Portal Project sample is provided to illustrate the basic elements of a simple portal application. Portal application development involves portal site design, which is represented by portal projects, and portlet development, which is represented by portlet projects. You can create and design portal sites using Portal Designer, which provides specialized editors for working with a number of familiar portal elements, including labels, pages, a navigation, and themes and skins, which, along with cascading style sheets, allow you to control the look and feel of a portal site. Portlets provide dynamic, aggregated content for a portal site.

The sample contains a Faces portlet project with three portlets: the Trouble Ticket List portlet, the Trouble Ticket Detail portlet, and the Customer List portlet. These three portlets are included in a single portal page. The application simulates a customer support tracking system, and includes a customer lookup function, along with dynamic, form-based trouble tracking.

To explore this project after you have imported it, expand the Dynamic Web Projects folder in the Project Explorer view. Then expand the SamplePortal module and double-click on the Portal Configuration object to open the project in Portal Designer. From here you can examine various portal design features. You can also select Run > Run on Server from the SamplePortal module pop-up menu to run this sample in the WebSphere Portal Test Environment or on a remote server using WebSphere Portal Server Attach.


Time to import and configure the sample   Import and configure: 2 minutes
Setup instructions   Setup instructions
Import the sample   Import the sample
Build it yourself   Build it yourself