I just saw that IBM released beta 3 of Portal 7 this week. I didn’t see it on my #ls10 radar on twitter, so I guess I’m not following enough Portal geeks out there. New features in Beta 3 include: Tagging allows users (and entire user communities) to classify, organize and structure content autonomously. It … Read more
IBM is working on the next release of WebSphere Portal and is gathering information from the community on how to improve the overall experience. If you have Portal or are considering using Portal, you might be interested in seeing what is coming in the new year with Portal : Enhanced theme support enables addition of … Read more
If you are interested in taking advantage of the new features of WebSphere Application Server 7 with WebSphere Portal, an open beta is available. Cheers. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
For those that install Portal and often download the sources from IBM Partnerworld or Passport Advantage, you know that after you download the whole source, you know its a PITA to decipher what is what in all those part number zip files. I pulled down the IBM Context Accelerator Package. The zip files alone were … Read more
I’m participating in Portal 6.1 training today. Good stuff. Here’s a screen cap from one of the presentations which shows what’s going to be new in Rational Application Developer 7.5 and WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.1. The biggie is support for JSR 286, the new Portlet API. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I missed this update from IBM last month, but anyone using Portlet factory can and should update to this fix pack. The fix pack was available for download on Nov. 13. From the article: What’s new in WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.2 software: Support for deploying applications to Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Notes® environments, enabling developers … Read more
I’m a little late in posting this, but IBM is beta testing a new version of Portal. Log in to download. You can run this version side by side with a 6.0 installation. https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/wps61beta/ ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Optimus Solutions will be holding 3 separate Lotusphere comes to you events in Atlanta, Tampa, and Chicago. Yours truly will be presenting a couple of presentations: WebSphere Portal Express 6IBM has always excelled at products for the enterprise, especially when it comes to extremely scalable, high performance apps. WebSphere Portal is embodies exactly that approach … Read more
If you are new to WebSphere Portal, and setting up a test/staging /production environment, then you should closely familiarize yourself with the XmlAccess interface. This is the command line scripting interface. Yes, you are probably thinking “command line?? why got out of the green screen stone age years ago!”. Well that’s fine and dandy, but … Read more
When you first start Portal 6 up (or Portal 5.1 for that matter), no matter what gear you are running it on, its going to seem slow. If you are doing an install, or planning on doing one, add this to your post-install task list: wpsconfig action-precompile-jsp This will precompile all JSPs within Portal. It … Read more