IBM Websphere Portal V5: A Guide for Portlet Application Development

Portal Toolkit V5.0 allows you to set up a portlet development environment when installed as a plug-in in WebSphere Studio.

Development environment configurations

For WebSphere Portal V5, you can set up your development environment to support testing and debugging portlets on the local development machine or on a remote server.

• Local debug configuration: for debugging portlets on the local development machine, you must use the WebSphere Portal Test Environment configuration. In this environment, you can run and debug your portlets without having to manually deploy them to the server. During the installation of Portal Toolkit, the portal server is installed to the WebSphere Test Environment of WebSphere Studio.

• Remote debug configuration: for debugging portlets on a remote server, you must use the WebSphere Portal Remote Server Attach configuration.