Developing

Developing for IBM® WebSphere® Portal includes developing portlets, extending the applications provided with the portal, and more. WebSphere Portal includes IBM Web Experience Factory to help you start developing quickly. You can also use IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer.

Installing a development server
This scenario is intended for developers who are setting up a development environment. This installation path is intended to provide a simple configuration with all the needed components on one server. The instructions for this single-server configuration are Windows specific and uses the Apache Derby database. Security is configured as the default federated repository with a built-in file repository.
Changing to developer mode
Developer mode allows you to develop portals and portlets within an environment that has improved start up performance.
Dojo and WebSphere Portal
WebSphere Portal contains an instance of the IBM Dojo Toolkit, a JavaScript library based on the Dojo toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org). When developing components that use Dojo, you must be aware of the way in which the portal uses Dojo, as well as tips and restrictions when using Dojo.
Developing portlets
Get an overview of the process of creating portlets, learn about the concepts of the APIs used to develop portlets, and view the samples to get you started. Also, learn about integrating features such as single sign-on, cooperative sharing of information using the property broker, and migrating Struts applications to the portlet environment.
Extending tagging and rating by using service APIs
Developers can enhance and extend the tagging and rating features of the portal. For this purpose the portal tagging and rating feature provides service APIs that you can use to enhance tagging and rating by your requirements.