Course
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IBM WebSphere Portal and WCM 8.5 Fundamentals
This course introduces new and experienced users to the powerful technologies and underlying advancements in the most popular enterprise portal product in the industry.
What you'll learn
This course introduces students to the foundations of WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management 8.5. It covers the fundamental development frameworks and features, and walks through a full Development environment installation. By understanding the features, benefits, and workarounds, students gain a complete understanding and learn how to grow from a novice to an Enterprise Portal and WCM architect.
Table of contents
Why Use WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management?
24mins
- Introductions and Website Design Best Practices 3m
- Motivations 2m
- Web Portals and the Key Aspects 3m
- Enterprise Web Portals and the Portal Gartner Report 3m
- Web Content Integration and Negative Portal Aspects 3m
- Understanding Web Portal Limitations and Types of Portals 3m
- Roles and Responsibilities and Portal with Ajax 4m
- Portal Environments and Enterprise Search 3m
- Summary and Next Steps 1m
WebSphere Portal 8.5 Fundamentals
24mins
- Web and Application Servers 3m
- WebSphere Administrative Architecture and Limitations 2m
- WebSphere Portal Services and Portal Architecture 3m
- LDAP and Architecture Choices and Best Practices 3m
- Portal Clustering and the Personalization Engine 3m
- WebSphere Portal Pages and Branding 4m
- Content Management System Integration 4m
- Personalization Engine, Integration, and Summary 4m
WebSphere Portal Development Frameworks
44mins
- Introductions and Development Platform 3m
- Defining Portlet and Portlet Management 3m
- Portlet Life-cycle and Common Practices 4m
- Differences Between Servlets, Portlets, and Specifications 4m
- Inter-portlet Communication and Spring Portlet Development 4m
- Spring Portlet Runtime and Outbound HTTP Connections 4m
- IBM Script Portlet and Web Experience Factory 3m
- IBM Forms Experience Builder and Theme Development 3m
- Mobile Development Challenges and Mobile Browser Simulator 3m
- Digital Data Connectors and Summary 2m
- Lab - Part 1 - RAD and Portlet Development 9m
- Lab - Part 2 - Mobile Browser Simulator Demonstration 4m
WebSphere Web Content Management 8.5 Fundamentals
33mins
- Introductions and Content Management Services 2m
- Web Content Management and Its Integrated Roles 2m
- WCM Terminology 2m
- Web Content Viewer, WCM Libraries, and Syndication 3m
- Syndication Relationship, Site Areas, and Authoring Templates 2m
- Presentation Templates 1m
- Demo - Part 1 8m
- Demo - Part 2 & Workflow and Authoring Tool Components 8m
- Managed Pages & Blogs and Wikis 2m
- Integrated Social Collaboration Tools and Summary 2m
Installing WebSphere Portal and WCM 8.5 and Administration Basics
41mins
- Introduction and Software Prerequisites 3m
- Supported Operating Systems and Post Installation Software 3m
- Standalone, Clustered, and Advanced Installation Roadmaps 4m
- Installation Checklist, Software, and Installation Manager 3m
- Configuring Repository Binaries and Installation Considerations 3m
- Portal Directories and Administrative Domain Structure 3m
- Portal Configuration Hierarchy and Command Line Tools 2m
- Discovering Ports, Public vs. Private Pages, and ICS 3m
- Uninstalling Portal, Backup and Disaster Recovery, and Summary 4m
- Lab - WebSphere Portal Installation 8m
- Lab - Installation Verification 4m
WebSphere Portal 8.5 Management Foundations
62mins
- Introduction and WebSphere Portal GUI and Critical Tips 3m
- WebSphere Portal Toolbar Introduction and Demo 6m
- WebSphere Portal Administration Console and Sections 3m
- Portal Page Hierarchy and Virtual Portals 4m
- Creating Virtual Portals and Hidden Treasures 3m
- Demo - Creating the Training Virtual Portal 5m
- Page Templates and Management and Definitions 2m
- Creating Custom Page Templates and Articles Template 2m
- Page Layout and Installing Portlets 2m
- Installation Lifecycle and Portlet Preferences 3m
- Managing Portlets and Login Portlet and XMLAccess 4m
- Portlet Wires and Managing Themes and Skins 2m
- Portal Resources and Applying Page and Portlet Security 2m
- Portal Security Page Roles and Applying Security 4m
- Virtual Groups, Hidden Security Assignment, and Summary 3m
- Lab - Part 1 - Creating Pages and XMLAccess 7m
- Lab - Part 2 - Applying Security 7m
Web Content Management Foundations
36mins
- Introduction and WCM Management Tasks 2m
- Library Scope and Creating Libraries 2m
- Creating the WCM Library and Editing Options 2m
- Demo - Creating the Training WCM Library 2m
- Web Content Authoring Portlet and Authoring Pages 2m
- Authoring Portlet Configuration, WCM Roles, and Permissions 4m
- Demo - Configuring a Custom Authoring Page 3m
- WCM Authors and Workflow Approvers 3m
- WCM Rendering Portlet and Syndication Players 2m
- Syndication Pairs and Credential Vaults 1m
- Creating Syndication Pairs and Selecting Syndication Type 1m
- Synchronizing Requirements 1m
- Synchronizing Recommendations and Managing Failed Items 2m
- Common Syndication Issues and Unlocking Libraries 2m
- Restoring Items from a Library and Summary 2m
- Lab - Configuring Credential Vaults and Syndication and Options 6m
About the author
Sal Pece is a Lead WebSphere Portal Architect and Developer with over 13 years of total IT experience in analysis, design, development, deployment, testing, documentation, implementation/maintenance of enterprise software. His focus on social collaboration software, responsive web design, and client-side innovation technology places him at the bleeding edge of the industry. Sal teaches and consults on a variety of IBM technologies for Wintrac ( www.wintrac.com).