Web Experience Factory Samples Directory

Data access

These samples feature data access and Web Experience Factory.

Web and REST services

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Using and creating WSDL-based web services	How to use a WSDL-based web service in an application, and how to create a WSDL service from a model.
Using the REST Service Call builder	How to use the REST Service Call Builder that was introduced in IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory 6.0.2 to invoke REST style services and display the results.
Lotus Connections Integration Samples	Using the REST Service Call builder to fetch Atom feed data from a Lotus Connections Dogear, Profiles, and Blogs server and using of the Atom publishing API to write back to the Blogs server
Creating a Lotus Quickr Service Using the REST Service Call builder	Use the REST Service Call builder to create a service to manipulate Lotus Quickr resources.
Revising the Results of a REST Service Call	How to revise the Results of a REST Service Call.
Restructuring the Results of a REST Service Call	How to use a "restructure handler" to change the structure of XML data, since the XML data retrieved from a back-end server may not be in the format needed by your WEF application.
Transforming the Results of a REST Service Call	How to use transform builders to change both the structure and the values of the XML data, since the XML data retrieved from a back-end server may not be in the format needed by your WEF application. Sometimes the structure of the data needs to be changed; sometimes the values of the data need to be changed.

Connections

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Accessing Connections 2.5 Files using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory	How to use the Connections Files Access builder to access Lotus Connections® 2.5 Files using IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory Version 7.0.0. This sample includes a feature set and two project archives.

SQL

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Creating a SQL service	How to use IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory to create a service that uses data from a relational database. The sample service supports a range of database functionality, with full create-read-update-delete (CRUD) support.
Using the SQL Transaction Builder	How to use the SQL Transaction builder in Portlet Factory.
Handling BLOB Data with the SQL Builders	How to approach complex data types -- including BLOB, CLOB, ARRAY and STRUCT.

Domino

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Creating a Domino service	How to use IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory to create a service that uses data from Lotus® Domino®
Using web services to access a Domino discussion database	Using Web Service Call support, Calling Domino web services, Leveraging pluggable and interchangeable Service Providers, and using a Java LJO to manipulate complex XML web service responses for ease of consumption and UI generation.
Connecting to Domino 8 Web Services	How to connect to a Lotus® Domino® 8 server's web service, using the four different WSDL encodings Domino provides (RPC Encoded, RPC Literal, Document Literal, and Document Wrapped). In this sample a simple domino web service is used which illustrates how to use different return types (e.g. a string, an array of strings, a complex type and an array of complex types).
IBM - Connecting to Domino 7 Web Services	How to connect IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory to a Lotus® Domino® 7 server's web service, using the four different WSDL encodings Domino provides (RPC Encoded, RPC Literal, Document Literal, and Document Wrapped).
Using Domino collaboration builders	How to use the Domino® Collaboration builders in IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory.
Creating and Updating Attachments in Lotus Domino Documents	How to build a Portlet Factory 7.0 web application that can create attachments in new documents or modify attachments in existing documents. The Portlet Factory application is available as a download in the attachment section at the end of the document.

Other data sources

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Creating an Oracle EBS service	How to create a service that accesses the Oracle EBS using SQL through a set of database tables and stored procedures.
Information Service Call Builder	How to connect to an instance of IBM Information Server, browse its deployed services, inspect a rich set of service metadata and select a service operation to be called from the portlet model
Using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory to build a portlet that integrates with IBM FileNet P8 Content Manager	How to connect to and expose IBM FileNet Content Management services. The sample uses the new CMIS Prototype API which wraps IBM FileNet APIs and exposes them as a collection of REST services.
Creating a Siebel Service	How to create a service that uses data from Siebel.
Creating a PeopleSoft Service	How to create a service that uses data from PeopleSoft.
Creating an SAP service	How to create a service that uses data from SAP.

Additional data access techniques

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Paged web service provider	How to build a paging-aware service provider model that gets data from a web service. Includes a custom data retriever implementation that calls a web service and passes it a start row index and count to retrieve a subset of a larger list of employee records
Using Excel data	Using the Excel Import builder to import an Excel spreadsheet, and creating a service provider model that exposes the data as a service.
Data Integration builder	How to create a data integration type builder. It does this by demonstrating a simple XML File Access Builder, which allows you to read/write records to/from an XML file. Along with the builder code, it also includes a set of sample provider/consumer models that access an orders.xml file.
Integrating services from WebSphere Process Server	How to create an IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory model that integrates with the IBM Websphere Process Server 6.0.1 applications. This article uses a web service deployed on Process Server.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/pfwiki.nsf/dx/08122008084644PMWEB2X9.htmBuilding a Schema for an Xml Variable	How to build a quick test model and you need to schema type an XML variable. Use this technique if you're not familiar with creating schemas.
Creating a custom data paging provider	How to create a custom data page solution. It is intended for developers who require a custom solution to implement paging to a data source.
Accessing Quickr Document Libraries using IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory	Use the Sample Quickr Documents Extension to add functionality for accessing Quickr document libraries, including the Quickr Document Access builder.
Utilizing Database Resource Bundles	How to use Portlet Factory Version 6.1.2 and later to localize portlets using content from a database or some other back-end server. It is intended for developers writing portlets that must support multiple languages where the language translations are not stored as traditional file-based resource bundles.
Creating a service provider from Java Beans	How you can create a service provider from data that comes from Java Beans instead of XML.
Paging-enabled service using Java Beans	How to create a paging-aware service provider, use Java/XML Converter to transform bean-based data into XML, and fetch and convert the bean data on demand during paged access
Email Sample	How to build a model that uses the javax.mail API to send an email.
Create a Custom Service Provider using a Java Class	How to create a service provider from data that comes from Java Object instead of XML. Once you have this provider, you get all the benefits of the provider/consumer architecture, such as automatic testing support, separation of data and presentation layers, and automatic support in the consumer model for high-level builders such as View & Form.

UI

These samples feature using Web Experience Factory to create a user experience.

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Using layouts and stylesheets	How to make portlets with custom layout pages and styles.
Tracking selected rows	Some techniques for tracking "selected rows" in repeating data. The sample model shows the addition of a "Selected" column to some data in which a checkbox is displayed. Submitting this form sets the "Selected" field value to "true". A result page demonstrates two ways to filter this data: using Visibility Setter to show only the selected rows, and looping over the XML data to extract selected field values
Using ajax techniques	How to use the Ajax-related features of IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory Version 6.0.1.
Date and time formatting	How to format Dates, Date Time and Time values and the correct way to configure the Date Time Formatter builder.
Dojo extension sample	Some of the techniques illustrated in the sample models. There are eight models illustrating the Dojo techniques.
Custom Layout	How to use the HTML Data Layout Builder to create a custom layout.
Localizing portlets	How to localize portlets. It is intended for portlet developers who are writing portlets that must support multiple languages.
Merging common cells	How to take a normal table (created by the View and Form Builder) which had many common values in the data, and merge the cells with those common records into a single cell, using the HTML rowspan attribute to cause that single cell to stretch across all the records with that value.
Flash integration sample	How to integrate a user interface component built in Adobe Flash (Flex) into a model. The key technique shown is the use of flashvars to communicate a URL to be used for data access, allowing the Flash component to get its data from a Portlet Factory
Techniques for building a controller model using Model Container and events	A master model/portlet (samples/container_events/Main) which uses several other models to build its core functionality. The home page of the main model is a page that includes two views, one which has a column with a link to a details view, and another whose column link loads an update model.
Using Ajax techniques	How to use the Ajax-related features.
Rich Web User Interface Sample	How to use some of the Dojo, Ajax, and rich user interface, including a sample of a smartphone-enabled application
Specifying page location using xpath	How use XPath, an XML Path Language to select a specific node on a page to select a specific generated node which may have the same name as several other generated nodes.
Page Automation, Formatting, Translation and Validation	How Page Automation functions in Portlet Factory. The samples show a wide range of different techniques in working with formatting, translation and validation.
Page Tabs With Close Buttons	A technique for modifying the output of the Page Tabs builder to add a button to each tab that can "close" that tab, along with a way to restore all closed tabs.
iFrame builder	How to put an Iframe on a Page.
Rich Data Definition - multiple schemas	How to combine data definitions from two schemas into a single Rich Data Definition file.
Print Page Contents	Demonstrates the Print Page Contents builder using a custom print implementation.
Creating a Sample Questionnaire with Multiple Choice Answers	One of the possible solutions for presenting data containing multiple Label/Value pairs. For example, questions with multiple choice answers.
Creating action columns in tables	Two techniques for creating action columns in tables.
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Custom Page Layout with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory	Different techniques you can use to manage the layout of the JSP pages to get the eventual HTML result that you want.
Creating_a_Dojo_Fisheye_Menu	Creating a Dojo Fisheye Menu
Accessing Variables From JavaScript	Techniques that can be used to access the values of server-resident variables or methods from client-side JavaScript code.
Action from javascript	Using an HTML Event Action builder to attach action-invoking code to an element, where it can be called from JavaScript and setting up a interval timer that can be turned on and off.
Checkbox group input values	Getting values from a page control that submits multiple values and using IXml to build up an IXml variable from the input values.
Client events and partial page refresh	A set of four cooperating portlets that communicate using Portlet Factory events with client-side delivery, and which use partial-page refresh.
Button enablement	Attaching a click handler to a number of repeated checkboxes and setting the enablement of a button based on the values of this checkbox group.
Categorizing tabular data	How to categorize tabular data with the Category View builder.
Conditional links	How to select among different UI types at execution time, in particular, between a link and a piece of text.
Tab Examples for Dojo Tabs and Page Tabs	Examples of tabs that use Dojo Tabs and Page Tabs.
Making a calendar portlet	Techniques for using multiple nested Repeated Region Builders to render a calendar. There are also some good examples of how to work with the IXml interface to manipulate data.
Using the Rich Data Definition builder to format dates	How to use the Rich Data Definition builder to format dates in an XML variable.
Checkbox visibility	How to use a checkbox to control the visibility of another element of the UI.
Ajax type-ahead using a data base filter	How to use the Ajax Type-Ahead builder in conjunction with a data service (such as a SQL Call builder) to obtain a limited set of type ahead suggestions.
Creating a create a Model-based builder	How to create a Model-based builder in WebSphere Portlet Factory including step by step instructions in the creation of a new Model-based builder.
Creating a custom builder to automate the display of numerical data with an associated_ image	How to create a custom builder that assists in the automatic display of images and numerical data on a page.
Address book and map portlet	Two cooperating portlets: a very simple address book, and a map display portlet.
Developing Web Applications for Smartphones and Tablets with IBM Web Experience Factory	Benefits of using Web Experience Factory for smartphone, tablet and multi-channel development, and a Highly configurable automated generation of web user interfaces.
Building hybrid mobile applications with PhoneGap and IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory	How to build hybrid mobile applications with PhoneGap.
Building a wizard pattern in IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.1	Using a graphical user interface wizard to help users interact using a sequence of input forms.

Mobile

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Making builders

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Sample data integration builder using domino views	How to create a data integration builder using view data from Lotus® Domino.
Simple model based builder	Shows a model-based builder for creating a simple view of data from a service provider model.
Custom Builder Sample for Quickr and Excel Import Builder	Creating a custom builder for use with the Quickr and Excel Import Builder.

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Profiling

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Sample data integration builder using domino views	How to facilitate minor configuration changes without having to redeploy the war or modify the deployed war.
Using the WPS Group Segment Handler	How to implement the Portlet Factory's profile selection handler WPS Group Segment Handler on an IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1 or higher.
How to personalize an xml variable	How to profile enable an xml variable and personalize it in the portlet "edit" customizer.
Client device profile selection	How to use the client browser device type with a profile selection handler, so that for different browser types you will get a different Portlet Factory profile.

Java and XML

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Creating a service provider from Java Beans	How to create a service provider from Java Beans.

Portal integration

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Portlet Min Max	How to minimize and maximize your portlet.
Portlet Filter Sample	How to create Portlet Filters to allow for code to be called on portlet initialization, destruction and action, event and render phases.
Property Broker Chained	How to implement inter-portlet communication using the property broker.
Creating popup windows	How to create a popup window from a portlet.

Client side

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General

Link to Sample page	What this sample shows
Creating a service provider from Java Beans	How to catch errors from the File Upload builder.
Creating a Feature Set	A sample Ant script that can be used in a project that contains a custom builder where you want to generate a Feature Set (.pkg) file that includes your builder(s). Included in this sample is a custom Ant task that will generate the Feature Set manifest file.
Server Stats Viewer Model	A Server Stats viewer is a simple model for viewing server stats log files.
WebSphere Portlet Factory Log Monitoring tool	A Log Monitor tool which runs as a standalone model scanning the log files, and serves up the results as RSS feeds.

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