Abstract:
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory (WPF) offers rapid development of web/portal multichannel applications. This presentation provides architecture and design best practices that will help architects, developers and consultants during the development of real customer solutions, customer PoC and prototypes for multiple devices. It will specifically focus on design patterns, providing a high quality end-solution that increases customer’s satisfaction. It will cover different aspects from the back-end data access to the user interface (browser and mobile) by applying techniques and patterns that will provide a modular and extensible end-to-end solution. The development of common frameworks by applying well known design patterns (e.g. MVC), will demonstrate that WPF simplifies and speeds up the development of multichannel applications while keeping a clear architecture. This session provides good design and architecture practices that can be effectively utilized by architects, designers and developers when working with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory. The tool provides a rapid development which sometimes hides the fact of providing a clear design and architecture. Based on the experience while working on customer’s projects across EMEA and US, this session is intended to provide real life guidance for how to properly develop a portal multichannel application using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory. A good design and architecture are key factors even for small projects, prototypes and PoC that eventually may turn into final solutions.During this presentation, a real customer’s project will be used to show how all these patterns, practices and ideas have been successfully applied to a real use case scenario. The session is oriented to existing IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory architects and developers; however, new users of the tool are also welcomed to discover the capabilities of WPF and the real benefits of following good architectural practices while using IBM Webphere Portlet Factory.