Richard Gornitsky

What are composite applications and how do they help me? In this three-part series we will introduce the concepts behind a new class of applications called composite applications and explain their need and structure. In this article, we will present a high-level overview of composite applications, the benefit they provide, and how WebSphere Portal supports them. In the next two articles we will explore the WebSphere Portal features that support composite applications in more detail. The term composite application suggests that there is a class of application whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or components. These applications are formed by choosing components from a catalog or palette, placing those components on some design surface, and i... (more)

What's New in WebSphere Portal V5.1.0.1?

The first thing that you said to yourself when you saw the title of this article is, “Why am I reading an article about a point release? A fixpack update point release usually provides just technical fixes. Who cares?” Surprise! WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.1 provides a lot of new and updated capabilities originally intended for the WebSphere Portal 5.1 release, as well as the typi... (more)

WebSphere Journal Cover Story: Support of Composite Apps in WebSphere Portal

In the first article of our three part series, we introduced you to the composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports it. A composite application is a class of application whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or components. It is formed by choosing components from a catalog or palette, placing those components on some design surface, and interc... (more)

Support of Composite Applications in WebSphere Portal

In the first of our three-part series, published in November 2004, we introduced the composite application model and how WebSphere Portal supports it. Composite applications are a class of application whose fundamental construction model is the composition of parts or components. They are formed by choosing components or services from a catalog or palette and interconnecting the componen... (more)

What's New in WebSphere Portal v5.1?

WebSphere Portal, the leading enterprise portal package on the market, is about to ship a major new release designed to take integration and flexibility deeper and further than ever before. WebSphere Portal lets programmers focus on developing the business functionality by managing the look and feel, personalization, content management, and security components. WebSphere Portal has always... (more)