Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal: Expert Guidance to Build and Deploy Portal Applications at Dominant Systems Book Store

Maximize on the power of WebSphere Portal to build and deploy portals

If you use, develop, manage, or administer WebSphere applications, you are probably already building or managing Web portals--or well on your way to doing so. With this comprehensive book, youll discover how these portals bring together important functions such as integration, presentation, organization, and customizations--functions needed in every complex application environment. The unparalleled author team of experts offers you in-depth insight on mastering the complex aspects of WebSphere Portal, walking you through every facet from installing to deployment.

Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal focuses on not only the portal as a server, but also how it interacts with components such as LDAP servers, enterprise applications, mobile devices, and even other portals. The authors begin with an introduction to the WebSphere product family and then explore such topics as:

Installing and customizing the portal, as well as migrating existing environments to version 5
Defining portlets, pages, and user interface properties
Applying personalization, collaboration, search, and document and content management within WebSphere Portal v. 5
Using high availability, security and single sign-on, identity management, Web services, and enterprise applications
Setting up a portal in a high-availability environment and integrating external applications into WebSphere Portal

Customer Reviews & Comments
The contents of this book would better be found in technical documents such as user guides, architecture guides, and admin guides. That some reviewers report that this may be the only place to find some of this information says more about the paucity of good IBM documentation (or perhaps just the poor organisation of the IBM portal support site) than about the quality of the book. This book is fairly limited to the "To save your data, click 'save'" brand of instructions (I thought Microsoft owned the patent on this technique?). Since many many portal configuration pages are self-explanatory, much of this instruction is wasted. And aside from a brief foray into Portlet development, which is a not-too-bad treatment for a neophyte, there is nothing for a developer. Finally, the name is misleading. Certainly, there is nothing in this book that could possibly lead to "mastery" of the IBM WebSphere Portal. Don't waste your money.

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