The IBM® Rational® Software Development Platform gives you the ability to create, edit, test, and publish both portal and portlet applications. Once created, these applications exist as projects in the product workbench.
The Portal Tools are accessible in the workbench through the Web perspective. It combines wizards and editors to assist you in developing portal and portlet applications. This perspective also provides an environment for creating other portlet-specific operations.
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WebSphere Portal Server Attach |
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Whether you create a project from scratch in the workbench or import a project from WebSphere Portal, expect that you will have to deploy to the same WebSphere Portal server version as the version for which you created your project.
The Samples Gallery provides sample portlet applications to illustrate both portal and portlet development. You can examine these sample application projects in your own development environment.
Creating a portal or portlet application sample project is far simpler than creating one from scratch, because a wizard imports all necessary resources, including content, and the project is ready to run from your workspace.