Creating Portlets without RAD (IBM WebSphere Portal 8)
This question comes up a lot... Is there any way to create portlets for IBM WebSphere Portal if I do not have RAD available? Rational Application Developer is the IDE of choice for IBM WebSphere Portal developers. There are a lot of advantages of using RAD for portal development (see link above for tech specs). There is a 30 days trial available for download if you would like to try it and great news for all the Apple fans:), it now works on Mac OS. However, IBM is showing you how to create a portlet form the command line: Creating a simple portlet . Compiling would require a few Portal libraries. So if you have a portal install available and would like to give it a try, follow the following steps. This is a cheat sheet to the already existing IBM documentation above: Note: I am assuming that you are on Linux machine and there is a Portal v8 installed. Hard core portal developers that do not need all the bell and whistles of RAD can use the light weight...