Changing Java version from 1.5 to 1.6 in Web Experience Factory (7.0.1)

IBM Web Experience Factory (WEF) 7.0.1 uses Java 1.5 as its compliance level to build project artifacts by default. Most of the time we do not need to worry about what version of Java runtime libraries are used by WEF …

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Searching And Creating Group with PUMA in IBM Web Experience Factory

  The Portal User Management Architecture leads you to handle user and group management, with this you can create, update delete users and groups, this post defines how to search a specific group and if the that group does not …

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BYOD – What and Why

Bring Your Own Device

“What on earth is BYOD?” a friend asked me earlier today. I was surprised and thought he was joking at first, given that he is a consultant in a growing IT firm in my city. But then I realized that …

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IBM Web Experience Factory 8 – Client Aggregation Builder Video Tutorial

  Client aggregation builders give the power to the browser to process operations on the client side(Mobile Devices), It actually uses JSON request to perform operations on the server. Server responds with the output that is displayed in the client …

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IBM Web Experience Factory Viewing/Downloading Files From Server

  This post assumes that you have developed a portlet in IBM Web Experience Factory for uploading files to the server at the location specified in cluster.properties under bowstreet.upload.destinationPath, now you want to download those files or view them using …

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Why enterprises are going for hybrid apps over native apps

Native + Web = Hybrid

  Everybody has played Angry Birds. It could be on an iPhone, iPad or an Android phone or tablet. If you haven’t, chances are you will pretty soon. The reason is the tremendous growth of the smart phones and tablets …

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Getting WebSphere Portal page URL against page ID in Web Experience Factory

If we want to get the direct URL of the particular WebSphere Portal page against the page unique name, we can do that by using the PortalURLUtil API. The steps are as follows: Add an LJO builder in your model …

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