Required skills for developing a portlet with WEF

WEF is a portlet development tool, which not only enables fast portlet development, but it also insulates developers from the complexity of developing portlets. While WEF makes the development task easier, it does not mean that development should be performed by resources without any experience with the tool. It also does not mean that your project does not need a portal architect and experienced WEF Developers.

Many organizations implementing their first portal project have a strong JEE background. These organizations rightly want to leverage and reuse the JEE knowledge and resources, which had been used on previous JEE projects. There is nothing wrong with this approach. However, the following are a few important points that need to be taken into account when this is the case:

• Difference between a portal project and a JEE project

• Requirement of experienced WEF Developers for WEF development

• Training and mentoring

• Hiring or contracting an...