Development environment
At the beginning of a portal project that will utilize WEF as the portal application development tool, companies have some questions regarding the configuration of the development environment.
This is not a complex matter, but the availability of documentation involving this topic is somehow more limited and many companies are not sure how to set up their development environment for the first time.
So, in this section we will discuss the configuration of a typical WEF development environment.
In most projects, development is performed on desktops running the Windows system. So, in our example we will represent the development environment for a Windows machine.
WebSphere Portal Server installation
The configuration of a WEF development environment can start with the installation of the IBM Websphere Portal Server. WEF Developers will need to have an instance of IBM WebSphere Portal Server running on their local machine to test their portlets during the development phase...
