| Dave Hay 2004-01-29, 7:33 pm |
| Daniel
Take a look at the InfoCenter online at: -
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwor...al/proddoc.html
It contains the documentation for all recent versions of WebSphere Portal
(v4 through v5).
Essentially, the main difference between v4 and v5 is that the Portlet API
has been improved and enhanced over time, and additional Portal services
such as Content Access, Transcoding, Translation, Cooperation (C2A) have
been added and extended. In addition, the JSR168 standard has now been
ratified and is planned for inclusion in Portal v5 - I believe the v5.0.2
product should allow developers to write/test portlets to both the IBM and
JSR168 APIs in the same environment.
The v4 product runs on WebSphere Application Server v4 which has a
dependancy on a RDBMS such as DB2. This can make the installation a little
rich/complex for a novice user. The v5 product runs on WAS v5 which doesn't
have the same RDBMS dependancy. In essence, the basic v5 installation is far
simpler - customisation is done after, rather than during, installation.
As far as the development environment is concerned, it's a matter of
preference. I like having the ability to create/develop/test portlets inside
WSAD v5 using the Portal Toolkit and the Portal v5 test environment. The v5
Toolkit has been far improved over the early v4 product in this regard.
At the end of the day, the choice is yours but you should consider (a) what
your customers are going to deploy on and (b) whether the functionality that
you need is available in v4 or v5. Personally, I'd go with v5 but ......
it's up to you.
Regards
Dave Hay
"dwlinux" <dwlinux@web.de> wrote in message
news:1560203980.1075448929688.JavaMail.wasadmin@swg3ws006...quote:
> Hello together,
> i started with the basic of Websphere Portal
> look for more information about the difference of
> WSAD 4.x and PortalKit vs. WSAD V5 + PortalKit.
>
> Who knows which documents / redbooks describes those differences.
Furthermore it could important to know ifquote:
> the current version V5 dev environment more convenient as the 4.x.
>
> Please let me know your suggestions or ideas ;-)
> Thx for help
> Daniel
|