IBM Websphere Portal V5: A Guide for Portlet Application Development

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To use the WebSphere Studio Site Developer and WebSphere Portal Toolkit, you must first configure a Test Environment. It is not necessary for a separate instance of WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Portal to be running to run the Portlet code that you developed in the WebSphere Studio Site Developer IDE.

Start the WebSphere Studio Site Developer. Select Start->Programs->IBM WebSphere Studio-> Site Developer 5.0 .

  1. The first time you start WebSphere Studio Site Developer, it will ask you to specify a directory to be used as your development workspace. Accept the default directory, check the box next to Use this workspace as the default and do not show this dialog box again , and click OK to open Site Developer.

    Note: You have already checked OK to this dialog, so you probably will not receive it a second time.

    Figure A-43. Workspace directory

  2. It may take a while for Site Developer to load for the first time. Please be patient.

    Figure A-44. Loading WebSphere Studio Site Developer

  3. Once WebSphere Studio Site Developer is loaded, you should see the following message as shown in Figure A-45; click Yes .

    Figure A-45. Updates pop-up window

  4. Select the pending configuration change and click Finish .

    Figure A-46. Configuration changes

  5. Click Yes when asked to restart the workbench.

  6. Once WebSphere Studio Site Developer is restarted, click the Server Configuration tab as shown in Figure A-47 on page 530.

    Figure A-47. Server Configuration tab

  7. Right-click Servers , then click New , then Server and Server Configuration as shown in Figure A-48.

    Figure A-48. Creating a new server and configuration

  8. A new window will be displayed to allow you to configure the new server and server configuration. Enter Test Environment as the server name . Select Test Environment under WebSphere Portal version 5.0 as the server type. Click Next to continue.

    Note: You must enter a server name to continue. Also, be sure to select Test Environment .

    Figure A-49. Server configuration settings window

  9. This will bring up a window to select the HTTP port number to be used by Site Developer. The default is 9081. Click Finish to add the Test Environment.

    Figure A-50. HTTP port selection

  10. The server has been successfully added and can now be seen in the Server Configuration tab.

    Figure A-51. Test Environment has been added successfully

  11. WebSphere Site Developer and the Portal Toolkit are configured so that whenever you test a portlet by right-clicking it and selecting Run on Server , it will execute in this Test Environment.

    Figure A-52. Running a portlet in the Test Environment

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