September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
15h 6m
English
WebSphere Portlet Factory (WPF) provides several techniques for customizing marked-up content in a portlet. This chapter focuses on the various ways in which these techniques can be used, and, by the end of the chapter, you will have a good knowledge of when and how they should be used. To demonstrate these techniques, you will also build a simple data portlet that displays a list of assets for an asset management system. The portlet enables users to drill down in the list to get more detail on each asset. It is not possible to update asset information in the example, although the techniques discussed in this chapter could be applied just as easily to update functions as to display functions.
The example ...