Creating a WEF project
If you do not have access to an instance of Web Experiece Factory, you can download an evaluation copy from IBM site. The following is the link: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/wpf/.
This trial version is valid for a period of 60 days. Please notice that the current version available for download is Version 8. In this book, we have covered Version 7.0, because Version 8 was not available at the time we started writing this book.
In order to create your portlets, first you need to create your WEF project either in Eclipse or in Rational Application Developer (RAD). The process is the same whether in Eclipse or RAD. As we are using Eclipse, let's walk though the process of creating a WEF project in Eclipse.
Before you start your project, you should have your IBM WebSphere Portal Server up and running. We will instruct WEF to deploy the portlets we created in this project directly to the portal server. Perform the following steps:
1. Open your Eclipse....
