The Websphere Portal Primer is the must have WebSphere Portal information source. Focusing on IBM's WebSphere Portal product V4.1, the book covers the portal server, personalization server, Web content management server, a collaboration piece and a search engine. The WebSphere Programming model is quickly becoming the most compelling new technology available, especially when the Internet is about presentation of data, and portals are the greatest data and information presentation tool available. This book will not only teach you what makes the WebSphere Programming model so compelling or why the WebSphere Portal Server is fast becoming the world's premier portal server in sales and functionality. It will also teach you about portlets, open portlet APIs, securing and managing large Web portals each with their own distinctive look, as well as how to manage and support B2B, or B2C, or B2E e-Commerce. The book also teaches which topologies WebSphere Portal supports including WPO 4.1, WAS 4.

0, DB2 7.2, IHS 1.3.19, SecureWay Directory Server 3.2.2, on Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux. You will learn from basic e-commerce concepts to advanced 3-tier Internet topologies. Whether you are starting out developing simple portlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) or are well versed in using JavaBeans, this book has something for you.

It covers installation, setup, administration, tuning, and usage of WebSphere Portal Server software. It discusses servlets, security, single sign-on, transactions, session management, Web search, Web content management, and scaling as it relates to WebSphere Portal Server, pointing out valuable tips and exposing the gotchas. Packed with illustrations and sample codeaccompanying each.