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4.1 WebSphere Portal and DB2 II synergy
Chapter 2, “WebSphere Portal architecture overview” on page 15 describes the
strengths of WebSphere Portal in providing a framework for developing portals
that integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured content from a broad
range of geographically distributed data and content repositories, e-mail
systems, and the Web. However, portlet developers are responsible for coding
the appropriate APIs to access the relevant data sources to retrieve desired
information for rendering. If a portlet needs to access multiple data sources with
diverse APIs, the portlet developer ...