New security APIs in WebSphere Portal

Got this nice article from developerWorks website and boy this just happened at the right time. We are looking for the simillar kind of functionality in our ongoing project and this article would really help us understanding and extending the login service and authentication filters in portal security implementation.

One of our senior portal specialist has done some in depth research and accumulated quite a good knowledge base.

Here is the link for article.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0905_buchwald/0905_buchwald.html

Javadoc for WebSphere Portal V6.0, V6.01 and V6.1

While searching internet for some other stuff I found this useful links for portal developers who might be interested in some kind of tweaking. :)

Here is a central location for all javadocs related to Websphere portal.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/specs/0608_wp6javadoc.html

IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: Part 2.

Web 2.0 portal development support for features in IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1

In continuation of the previous post. IBM® WebSphere® Portal Version 6.1 introduces new features, such as client-side aggregation, Friendly URLs, and static page aggregation. WebSphere Portal V6.1 provides new themes, which include a Web 2.0-based theme. IBM® Rational® Application Developer Version 7.5 provides the tooling support for these new features. This article describes these features and tools

Click here to get more details on this article.

IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: What's new in IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5 Portal Toolkit: Part-1

What's new in IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5 Portal Toolkit

I just got this really helpful article from IBM which is the first in a five-part series. It provides an overview of the new features of IBM® Rational® Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit. It delves into how the Rational Application Developer V7.5 Portal Toolkit lets you leverage the new capabilities introduced with WebSphere Portal V6.1

Click here to get the full article.

WebSphere Portal trace setting for VMM

Currently I am working on Custom Repository configuration with Portal 6.1. While writing my own adapter for this I felt need for enabling trace setting for VMM so that I can troubleshoot.

I have spent little more time then I thought of because of little information on net. Below is the attributes needs to be set for VMM trace on the portal which will generate a trace.log file in
wp_profile_root\logs\WebSphere_Portal\trace.log

com.ibm.ws.security.*=all:
com.ibm.websphere.wim.*=all:
com.ibm.wsspi.wim.*=all:
com.ibm.ws.wim.*=all

You can also find out the comprehensive list of trace setting for the portal here.

New configuration parameters for Remote Rendering Portlet (RRP) in WCM

IBM has just released a technote describing two new configuration parameters used for the Remote Rendering Portlet (RRP) in IBM Web Content Management (WCM) 6.0.1.4 and 6.0.1.5.
(1) wcm.rrp.connect-timeout-in-milliseconds
A time-out value in milliseconds that is used when opening a connection to the remote WCM content server.

(2) wcm.rrp.read-timeout-in-milliseconds
A time-out value in milliseconds that specifies the time-out when reading from the input stream when a connection is established to the remote WCM content server.

Click here for more details.

How to set the default authenticated or unauthenticated page

How can you change the page that displays by default for authenticated and/or unauthenticated users to IBM WebSphere Portal?

WebSphere Portal serves the page with the lowest ordinal number under a given context for which the user (authenticated or unauthenticated) has access. Therefore, you can control which page is served by changing order and access control through the Manage Pages portlet.

Find out more here.