This is a must-have for WebSphere Portal teams

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	• Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal: Expert Guidance to Build and Deploy Portal Applications Ron Ben-Natan, Richard Gornitsky, ... Wiley, 2004 - 552 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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Actually, Better Than Average

This book is intended for four audiences: portal developers who will be working with WebSphere Portal Server, portal administrators, portal implementation specialists, and enterprise architects. Since I am a business analyst doing QA on a WebSphere Portal implementation project, I have skipped most of the instructions on how to install, how to access functions, etc. I'll leave that for others to review.

I find the book valuable as a way to understand portals in general and WebSphere Portal in particular. For me, the chapters on LDAP and mobile rendering were the most useful.

But the book is irritating, too. For example, there are lots of definitions of key concepts: very valuable. But they're scattered throughout the text: no glossary. Sometimes one of the authors will refer to the "user," and it's unclear whether he's referring to the end user of the portal or to the content creator: both are WebSphere users. Also, there's a good bit of Web Services in WebSphere, but no real "under the hood" discussion that might help the reader place WPS in clear relation to service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Much of my irritation stems from the editing. (I've worked many years as a technical editor.) At least two of the authors are speakers of English as a foreign language. Nothing wrong with that--if they get good copy editing. But Wiley has outsourced the copy editing. Different editors work on different chapters, they're probably in different countries, and their employer hasn't set down (or just not enforced) editorial guidelines and standards. As a result, we readers aren't getting the quality we deserve.

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Best portal book

Best book for learning WebSphere portal (and I have them all). The redbook is also useful but this book is the first one you should read.

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This is a must-have for WebSphere Portal teams

This book is packed full of clear and concise definitions of how WebSphere Portal works, along with step-by-step tutorials that fianlly put everything in one place. If you need to install, configure, design, develop, debug, troubleshoot and rollout a Portal 5.0.2 environment, this is an essential tool.

My personal book is annotated, dog-eared and full of sticky notes, and has proven an invluable asset.

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Maximize on the power of WebSphere Portal to build and deploy portals

If you use, develop, manage, or administer WebSphere applications, you are probably already building or managing Web portals-or well on your way to doing so. With this comprehensive book, you'll discover how these portals bring together important functions such as integration, presentation, organization, and customizations-functions needed in every complex application environment. The unparalleled author team of experts offers you in-depth insight on mastering the complex aspects of WebSphere Portal, walking you through every facet from installing to deployment.

Mastering IBM WebSphere Portal focuses on not only the portal as a server, but also how it interacts with components such as LDAP servers, enterprise applications, mobile devices, and even other portals. The authors begin with an introduction to the WebSphere product family and then explore such topics as:
* Installing and customizing the portal, as well as migrating existing environments to version 5
* Defining portlets, pages, and user interface properties
* Applying personalization, collaboration, search, and document and content management within WebSphere Portal v. 5
* Using high availability, security and single sign-on, identity management, Web services, and enterprise applications
* Setting up a portal in a high-availability environment and integrating external applications into WebSphere Portal
The companion Web site, www.wiley.com/compbooks/ben-natan, presents all the code in the book as well as links to vendors and sources of information pertaining to WebSphere Portal.

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