Manage the portlets and Web services that the site uses.
Managing Web modules
You can install new portlets from either a Web service or WAR file,
or you can manage existing portlets.
Managing portlet applications
You can enable a portlet application as a Web service and manage
existing portlet applications. To view a list of portlets for a portlet application,
select the appropriate portlet application title. You can also modify the
properties of the portlet.
Managing portlets
You can copy or delete a portlet, and change settings for a portlet.
You can manage settings for remote portlets, such as checking to see if a
portlet is available for adding to a page, or you can provide or withdraw
a portlet as a WSRP service.
Configuring your portal for Web services
If you want to make remote portlets available to your portal users,
you can set up your portal for consuming Web Services for Remote Portlets
(WSRP) and administer the necessary Producer definitions.
Web clipping
The Web Clipping Editor allows you to perform Web clipping to identify
and extract specific portions of an HTML document for display in a type of
portlet called a Web clipping portlet. Using the Web Clipping Editor, you
can tailor the content of the portlet to better suit the needs of your users
and any display constraints that might be associated with the device displaying
the portlet. You can click on the URL of a Web clipping portlet listed in
the table to use as a reference; the site will open in a new window. For example,
if http://www.ibm.com is the URL from which you want to clip, click on the
URL in the table to view that site in a separate window.
Using the Virtual Web Application Manager portlet
Virtual web applications provide an integration of existing
web applications from web-based content providers, such as the Microsoft
SharePoint 2007 server, with IBM® WebSphere
Portal through
a web application proxy. After the web applications are provisioned
on the Manage web application portlet, Administrators
use a lightweight IFrame portlet to host the applications, which users
can then access on a portal page without requiring direct network
access to the content. A special engine on the portal makes this possible
by mapping Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) on the portal to real
URI on the content providers.