Lotus Domino Designer 8 Help - Generating portlets and deploying to Websphere Portal (for WebSphere Portal only)

COMPOSITE APPLICATIONS - DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

Generating portlets and deploying to Websphere Portal (for WebSphere Portal only)
Composite applications to be used by IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8 can be NSF-based composite applications or Portal hosted composite applications

NSF-based composite applications can be accessed from the local data folder of the Notes 8 client or accessed from an NSF on a Lotus Domino server.

Composite applications hosted on a WebSphere Portal server can be also used by the Lotus Notes client but additional steps must be performed to generate and deploy rich client components as portlet .WAR files (Web modules) for WebSphere Portal.

An NSF component generator feature is supplied with the Composite Application Editor (CAE) feature to generate portlets from Notes and Eclipse components. This feature does the following:

Creates portlets to represent NSF components by creating unique instances of the Domino Application Portlet (DAP). The Domino Application Portlet lets you access HTML-enabled Domino applications via WebSphere Portal. The portlet is installed on a portal page, like any other portlet, and acts as a window through which users interact with a Domino application.
Creates portlets to represent Eclipse components by creating unique portlet instances. This release uses a placeholder portlet for Eclipse components.

In the portlet generation process, the Composite Application Editor works differently depending on whether you have an NSF based application or a Portal based application. When you create an application in an NSF you cannot deploy the components to Portal. What you need to do is the following

Point the Notes client against Portal via the client Preferences.
Create an application instance or template on Portal.
Edit this application instance or template with the Composite Application Editor.
While using the Composite Application Editor for this Portal based application, you can generate the necessary WAR files including the WSDL files on the Portal server from the Composite Application Editor palette.

How this process occurs can be summarized as follows:

DAP is installed on Portal as part of the Notes Server Client Installer (SCI). SCI needs to be installed on top of WebSphere Portal. If you are familiar with the Network Client Installer of Lotus Expeditor, this is the corresponding component available for Lotus Notes 8. It uses the Network Client Installer component and extends it so that a Lotus Notes 8 client and NSF components are supported in a composite application environment.
When you create a Notes component in the Composite Application Editor palette, CAE makes a call to the Portal server passing up the necessary WSDL from the selected Notes database
A placeholder instance of the DAP portlet is created for you and the WSDL registered appropriately.

For more complete information, refer to Composite Application Editor documentation and the Lotus Expeditor documentation.

See Also

Building Eclipse components

Specifying the Home Portal server URL for accessing WebSphere Portal

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