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Connections 2.5 Portlets for IBM WebSphere Portal

The IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets for WebSphere Portal delivers the Lotus Connections rich set of social software services for use within a WebSphere Portal environment. WebSphere Portal users can integrate the Activities, Blogs and Bookmarks services of Lotus Connections to:

• Create and work with Lotus Connections Activities within WebSphere Portal. Users can easily set prioritization, Activity status and to do items for their Activities. Also, have the ability to manage the membership to add and leverage the expertise and experience of others in the organization by working together.
• Within WebSphere Portal users can view and create Lotus Connections Blog postings and comments.
• Easily create, edit and discover Bookmarks in Lotus Connections that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.

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Tags: ibm websphere portal, Lotus Connections, Portlets

Web 2.0 portlet and portal programming

This article shows you how to exploit the benefits of the Web 2.0 tooling support in IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7.5 for portlet and portal applications running on IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1. In a typical portlet application, each request to the server causes a complete refresh of the browser page, which leads to page flickering and performance gaps. Web 2.0 technology enables you to create more dynamic and responsive applications with a superior user experience. The technology aims to turn Web browsers into semi-rich clients by projecting user interface logic for page rendering, navigation, aggregation, and cross-portlet interaction into user’s browsers.

The Web 2.0 tooling support provided with Rational Application Developer aids and expedites the process of creating such dynamic and responsive portlet and portal applications. Tooling support has been provided so that you can:

• Design portlets that interact using Client-Side Click-to-Action, which is a new event paradigm introduced in WebSphere Portal V6.1 for cooperation between portlets.
• Insert Person Menu and the capability to extend the Person Menu.
• Use an Ajax proxy for portlet applications.
• Use a client-side programming model to retrieve portlet preferences efficiently, performing portlet state changes on the client side.

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Tags: Ajax, IBM, Portlets, Rational, user interface