Vol: 1 Iss: 5 Read Back Issues

It's About Time and Money and User Experience Putting this issue together was a great experience for me. I've met a fine bunch of people who make up the WebSphere Portal team. I've heard time and again how, working together, the team made tremendous strides in creating a superior software suite in record-breaking time. Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 6,184

The Winds of Change The portal product market has matured significantly since its birth in 1998. In the early days, 'pure-play' vendors provided the only options for enterprises evaluating portal products. This situation quickly changed as existing software vendors came to recognize the market desire for ... Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 8,720

Entering the Portlet Era Portals are Web sites that serve as a jumping-off point to information and applications on the Internet or from an intranet. To accommodate the aggregation and display of diverse content in a dynamic manner, a portal server must provide a framework that breaks the different portal comp... Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 8,535

Portal Standards With the emergence of an increasing number of enterprise portals, different vendors have created a variety of APIs for portal components, or portlets. Similarly, various vendors are introducing different mechanisms for invocation of remote visual components. The resulting incompatible ... Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 5,988

WebSphere Portal Mobile Access Portlets for WAP Devices IBM's WebSphere Portal currently supports mobile devices by generating portal pages in three markup languages: HTML for desktop computers and some PDAs, WML for WAP devices, and cHTML for devices in the NTT DoCoMo i-mode network. This article focuses on portlet development for WAP devi... Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 13,617

WebSphere Portal Administration One of the most significant sets of enhancements introduced in WebSphere Portal v4.1 can be found in portal administration. The improvements offer portal administrators a wider set of functional capability, improved usability, and a robust delegated administration facility. Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 6,210

Looking at IBM Portal with Larry Bowden Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal, recently spoke with Larry Bowden, vice president of IBM Portal Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 7,385

A Conversation with Carol Jones Along with the official product name change to WebSphere Portal, there are significant changes in WebSphere Portal 4.1, the new release that Carol Jones, chief architect for WebSphere Portal recently described to Jack Martin, editor-in-chief of WebSphere Developer's Journal. Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 7,643

Web Content Publisher Content is core to many portal implementations. Content is often what brings visitors to a portal, and up-to-date and relevant content is what keeps them coming back. Some content is retrieved programmatically. For example, a bank account balance or airline reservation information is r... Jun. 27, 2002  Reads: 11,143

Portals Deliver When companies deploy portals, they are seeking tangible business and technical benefits: revenue increases or operational cost reduction, better security, reduced training costs, integration and reuse of existing Web applications, plus greater employee productivity and increased colla... May. 27, 2002  Reads: 6,308