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What's Coming in IBM® WebSphere® Portlet
Factory 6.1.5
A technical look at new capabilities and features
Disclaimer: Deck in Draft Status and Content Subject to
Modification
Jason Cornell, Product Manager, WebSphere Portlet Factory
cornellj@us.ibm.com
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Generate Even 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 Button
Appearance
Improved Sort
Column Indicator
Click to Navigate to
Specific Page
Click to Display Subset
or All Records
Click to Navigate to
Next or Previous Page
Enter to Navigate to
Specific Page
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Rapidly Modify Application Look and Feel
 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*
Click to Enable
Style Applied
Includes Updated
Support for Page
Tabs and Paging
Links/Buttons
* Based on IBM OneUI Initiative
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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
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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
Highlights Selected
Form Element
Click to Display
Options
Click to Launch Date
Picker
Click to Launch Time
Picker
Click to Adjust
Numeric Values
Formats Input as
Currency, Numbers,
Dates and Times
Easily Add Any
Dojo Widget to
Create Even
More Advanced
UIs
Create Custom
Validators using
Regular
Expressions
Highlights Validation Errors as User Types Email Addresses,
Dates, Times and Numbers
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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 User Interface
 Fade in/out
 Highlight
 Animate
Create Custom
Animations and
Chain Animations
Together for Even
More Visually
Stunning Effects
Click to Fire Animation
Wipe User Interface
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Dynamically Provide User Feedback with Dojo Progress
Indicators
 Improve user experience and maintain user focus by indicating progress of application
functions
Supported Dojo indicators include:
 Progress bar
Specify Custom
Images to Create
Advanced Progress
Indicators
 Animated spinner
 Text only
ANIMATED SPINNER
PROGRESS BAR
POPUP (MODAL) ANIMATED
SPINNER
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Simplify Display of Complex, Hierarchical Data Using a 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
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Create and Display Richly Formatted Text Using a 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
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Interactively 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
Adds Input to
Triggering Application
Popup Launches Modally Blocking
Access to Triggering Application
Prompts User for Input
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Return Search Results in Real-Time with Dojo Type-Ahead
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
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Display Tabular Data in a 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.)
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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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
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Quickly and Simply Construct Applications Visually Using Drag
and Drop Continued…
 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
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Easily Transform and Manipulate Data from Multiple Back-End
Systems
 Deliver the high-value information your customers demand by simply altering and
combining data from multiple, disparate back-end systems
 Key transform capabilities include:
 Combine
 Filter
 Group
Chain Transformations
Together for Advanced
Data Manipulations
 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
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 Provides fast, hassle-free deployment to remote or local IBM® WebSphere® Portal,
IBM® Mashup Center and IBM® WebSphere® 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
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Seamlessly Develop Applications in a Globally Distributed Team
Environment
 Use IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory with IBM® Rational® ClearCase®, CVS and
Subversion® with no configuration required
 Automatically excludes IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory framework files from source
control systems leveraging Eclipse™ team support features
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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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 Web Services (JAX-WS)
 Qualified support for Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP 2.0)*
* http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/pfwiki.nsf/dx/02252009034131PMWEBS9Z.htm
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Immediately Develop Applications Out-Of-The-Box
 Installer provides Eclipse™ and IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Community
Edition (WASCE)
Automatically creates WASCE 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
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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
 Intelligent indirect reference picker contextually filters available selections
Click to Show More
Selection Options
Display Relevant
Suggestions
Contextually
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Create Faster, More Scalable Applications
 Improved application and memory performance enables creation of IBM®
WebSphere® Portlet Factory applications that run faster and scale to help meet
the requirements of the most demanding environments
Enhanced discardable variable increases scalability by minimizing session size
Now provides intelligent integration with data service capabilities in
conjunction with DynaCache managed persistence
Optimized Web service processing enables even more efficient handling of
large Web service result sets
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What's Coming in Portlet Factory 6.1.5
 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
 Effortlessly Deploy Applications to Remote Systems
 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
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Develop Applications Using Latest IDEs
 Provides extensive updates for IDE support including:
Eclipse™ 3.4.2
IBM® Rational® Application Developer 7.5.4
IBM® Rational® Software Architect 7.5.4
IBM® WebSphere® Integration Developer 6.2
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Deploy Applications to the Latest Platforms Running OnPremise or in the Cloud
 Provides extensive updates for IBM platform support including:
IBM® WebSphere® Portal Server, Enable and Extend 6.1.5
IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express 6.1.5
IBM® Mashup Center 2.0
IBM® WebSphere® Application Server 7.0.x
IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition 2.1.1.2
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