IBM WebSphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud
IBM WebSphere Portal (WP), IBM Web Experience Factory (WEF), and the cloud
SaaS/IaaS/PaaS cloud engagement models
Portal Governance: Adopting the Mantra of Business Performance through IT Execution
Social and technical evolution
Portal governance — best practices
Portal Requirements Engineering
The discipline of requirements and requirements as a discipline
Portal Architecture: Analysis and Design
Portal architectural decisions
Information architecture — wireframes and storyboards
Enterprise reference architecture — simplifying complexity with DataPower and all handlers
A2Z banking reference and portal application architecture
A2Z call center reference and portal application architecture
Cloud as the fabric for resilient architecture
Architecting for nonfunctional requirements
Portal Golden and Cloud Architecture
Reusable architecture assets and IBM Portal Accelerators
Highly available portal golden and SOA reference architecture
Virtual portals, realms, and cluster partitioning
Portal collaboration, pervasive, and voice runtime architectures
Portal architecture and performance modeling — cloud and traditional paradigms
Portal operational model and workload analysis
IBM lab tools — mainframe and distributed
Commercial solutions and tools — mainframe and distributed
Cloud capacity planning — IBM SmartCloud Monthly Cost Estimator
Cloud capacity planning — Amazon Monthly Calculator
Test architecture and test data governance
Portal Build, Deployment, and Release Management
Portal build, deployment, and release management
Best practices and Jazz-enabled staging
WEF and WP environment — high-level release steps
Portal resources management via policies
Publishing to a remote AMI instance on the Amazon Cloud
Introduction to Web Experience Factory
What is Web Experience Factory?
Key benefits of using Web Experience Factory for portlet development
Key components of WEF — builders, models, and profiles
Executing your portlet from the designer
The Service Consumer and Service Provider patterns in WEF
Testing the Service Provider models
Revisiting the Logical Operations
Invoking the Service Provider model from the Service Consumer model
Portal projects leveraging web services
Web service inputs from other builders
Data transformation and manipulation of service response
Building the Application User Interface
Choosing the right builders to create the UI
Understanding how WEF builds UI
High-level and low-level builders
Data Service User Interface builder
Modifying the generated application
The benefits of using Dojo and Ajax in portal development
The Dojo and Ajax related builders
Sample portlet — exposing profiles through the portal's Configure option
WEF and Mobile Web Applications
Desktop applications versus mobile web applications
WEF handling of mobile web applications
How to Implement a Successful Portal Project with WEF
Required skills for developing a portlet with WEF
Roles, permissions, access level
Development of POCs or prototypes
Functional/nonfunctional test tools and automation
Test environment and test data
Portlet testing — time to walk the walk
Portal and Portlet Performance Monitoring
Business and technology monitoring
APM as a discipline — choose your weapons
Portal server monitoring with ITCAM for WebSphere
Problem determination and troubleshooting
IBM Support Assistant—general tools
Troubleshooting in WebSphere Application Server v8
Portal, WEF, and Portlet Tuning
Tuning — strategy and knowledge
Tuning candidates and test cases
Performance tuning — a deep dive into WEF
A2Z Bank business and technical monitoring