Chapter 5. WebSphere Portal & DB2 Information Integrator scenarios 101
WSAD also assists the developer by helping build the necessary deployment
descriptors and packaging for WebSphere Portal.
To render the portlets, we developed presentation within JSPs, and the portlet’s
rendering methods (for example, doView() ) include the JSP. This provides
separation between the portlet developer and the JSP designer, and is also
easier to manage. For the CFS portal custom portlets, we built the JSPs and
portlets using WSAD.
From a best practices point of view, the portlet should be insulated from the
specific implementation details of accessing data. This requires discovering the
WebSphere data source (that references DB2 Information Integrator) throug ...