Portlet Factory wiki

Welcome to the IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory wiki

This site showcases resources that will help you get the most out of IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory and related products such as IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework. Here you can find and contribute information about the best ways to use these products, instructions for common development and application deployment scenarios, samples, techniques, and troubleshooting information.

Contribute to the wiki

You want to be able to add your own information and you want to see information that you can trust. As a result you will find two types of content on this wiki: Community information that you have added and IBM reviewed information that IBM has tested and posted. Where ever you see this icon you can contribute content. Where ever you see the IBM logo, that means the information is provided and maintained by IBM. Comments are welcome, but the information is not editable.

Getting started

In this wiki you'll find information reviewed by the IBM product teams, as well as content contributed by users like yourself. Browse the existing information and samples, or sign in to comment on reviewed pages or add your own expertise to the mix. See the Wiki help section for information on contributing. If you don't see something you're looking for, post a suggestion.

  The Best Practices section contains good advice. Share your own!

• Getting started with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• Best practices for model development
• Concepts (basics and beyond)
• WebSphere Portlet Factory Rich Client Platform Support
• WebSphere Dashboard Framework Best Practices

  The Samples and techniques section contains resources you can adapt or adopt.

• Data access and creating services
• Presentation, UI, and Ajax techniques
• Profiling and runtime customization
• Samples catalog
• WebSphere Dashboard Framework

  The Deployment section contains IBM tested scenarios and step-by-step information for when you are ready to deploy.

• Deployment tips and FAQs
• Development Local Portal Deployment Scenario
• Development RAD 6 Embedded Test Sever Deployment Scenario
• Development Remote Portal Deployment Scenario
• Development Tomcat Deployment Scenario
• Development WAS CE Deployment Scenario
• Development WAS only Deployment Scenario

  Stuck? The FAQ and troubleshooting section can help.

• Portlet Factory FAQ
• Debugging information
• WebSphere Dashboard Framework
  

Resources

Need support?
This wiki is designed to provide valuable information to help you, but it does not replace other technical support services. Refer the following resources for more information.

• WebSphere Portlet Factory Zone
• WebSphere Portlet Factory support
• WebSphere Portlet Factory forums
• Lotus Labs
• ISSL Consulting Services
• Field Support Services
• IBM Software