If you have a Struts portlet project for WebSphere® Portal v5.0 that has HTML or XML files that contain content, you should enable the transcoding capability.
If you want to use the transcoding capability of WebSphere Portal v5.0 while debugging on a local test environment server, you need to enable transcoding. Transcoding is disabled by default in the WebSphere Portal v5.0 test environment to reduce the startup time of the server in debug mode. Transcoding is enabled by default on WebSphere Portal server attach servers and in the WebSphere Portal v5.1 Test Environment.
To enable or disable transcoding, choose one of these options: