IBM Web Experience Factory

Advanced Java platform-based development tools

• Use a model-based application development framework to author customized web portlets and applications accessible on multiple channels, including desktop browsers, smartphones and tablets.
• Work with dynamic profiling features that enable on-demand delivery of personalized, role-based web applications and portlets without writing custom code for each scenario.
• Capture commonly used design patterns and company-specific business processes as reusable components to automate frequently used development processes.
• Enable portlets to interact and share relevant information, even when accessing data from disparate databases and systems.
• Develop Java Platform Enterprise Edition applications that can be modified instantly without requiring coding or duplication of assets.

Pre-built, reusable builder modules

• Take advantage of more than 160 preconfigured, reusable builder modules that can help you automate the development process and develop applications more quickly.
• Use builder modules to create application components without specific programming knowledge—for example, to develop a Dojo application without proficiency in Dojo technologies.
• Work with builder modules that can deliver applications to multiple channels.
• Enable developers of all skill sets to create multipage, complex web portlets and applications.

Rich interactive interfaces

• Take advantage of Web 2.0 technologies including Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, Dojo and Mobile Dojo toolkit widgets and controls to deliver rich, responsive user interfaces for web applications.
• Create user interfaces with drag-and-drop capabilities, contextual menus, inline editing, automated page refreshing and tooltips that display descriptive text.
• Generate fully functioning user interfaces for various WebSphere Portal portlet modes including view, edit and configure.
• Work with a library of web application templates with reusable code and samples that can be used for training or deployment of applications.

Tight integration with WebSphere Portal

• Create customized portlets that integrate natively with WebSphere Portal and can be deployed through WebSphere Application Server from a single set of source code.
• Use WebSphere Portal groups, user attributes and personalization rules to deploy personalized portlets that can adapt automatically to each user.
• Deploy and re-deploy a portlet’s web archive files to WebSphere Portal without having to generate scripts or XML deployment descriptors.
• Take advantage of the WebSphere Portal credential vault or Lightweight Third-Party Authentication tokens to provide single sign-on capabilities.
• Integrate collaboration capabilities through WebSphere Portal to enable users to send instant messages and emails directly from web applications.

A flexible development platform with standards-based tools

• Use pre-built connectors to create composite web applications and portlets that use existing applications and data sources, including relational databases, web services, Representational State Transfer services, SAP, PeopleSoft, IBM Lotus® Domino®, Microsoft Excel and Content Management Interoperability Services.
• Take advantage of flexible rendering and deployment capabilities with support for popular smartphone devices including Apple iPhone, Google Android and BlackBerry, from a single source of programming code.
• Comply with open standards such as Java Specification Request (JSR)-168 and JSR-286 to build portlets and applications without detailed knowledge of the underlying technologies.
• Provide business users with tools to create, customize and manage portlets to reduce the burden on technical staff and speed the development of personalized web experiences.
• Support server-side and client-side architecture to help reduce reliance on bandwidth availability and improve responsiveness of mobile applications.