Developer Tools for Project WebSynergy

Project WebSynergy provides the following tools for developers to develop and deploy portlet applications.

NetBeans Portal Pack 3.0 Milestone 2 Features

Portal Pack 3.0 Milestone 2 modules support the complete life cycle of portlet application development. Using the Portal Pack modules, you can develop, package, deploy, and test portlet applications for deployment on Project WebSynergy. The new features in the Portal Pack for NetBeans 6.5 IDE are:

• Journal Tag Library Palette – A new palette item to drag and drop Project WebSynergy journal tag libraries to the Java Server Page (JSP^TM). You can use these tag libraries to access journal content from any user portlet.

• Project WebSynergy Service Builder Plugin – This plugin provides the Project WebSynergy service builder capabilities inside NetBeans 6.5 IDE. You can also use this plugin to write database specific portlets using service builder infrastructure.

For more information, visit the portal pack project web site.

Eclipse Portal Pack Software

The Eclipse Portal Pack provides a set of plugins to help you to develop JSR 168/286 portlets and deploy them on supported portlet containers. For more information, visit the Eclipse Portal Pack project web site.

ViewDesigner Plugin

The ViewDesigner plugin available in this release enables a web designer to design and customize the theme of a portal page. You can download the plugin from the ViewDesigner project web site.