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Portal - obtaining the installation disks
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| Hi all,
Can anyone please tell me what the cheapest way is of obtaining the install files needed to setup Portal 5.1?
I'd like to set this up at home so that I study for my 5.1 dev exam, but there doesnt appear to be any trial version available for download.
In order to get my hands on this, do I need to become a member of partner world, or is there another way? If so, could you tell me what level I need and how much this would cost me?
I have tried directing this question to an email address for support at PartnerWorld but have heard nothing...
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ian
(PCLP Domino Developer)
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| rvilela 2005-07-25, 3:18 pm |
| I'm not sure if I can answer your question but I can hopefully get you in the right direction.
There're a few options you can investigate in order for you to make a good decission.
If your planning to develop applications using a Portal framework you can go very expensive or ,what I'm assuming you're doing is learning on your own, you should consider alternatives.
A portal framework comes in different flavors. These are just "wrappers" to application servers. These wrappers, frameworks, etc are nothing without a good set of stable portlets. Portlets have an specification (JSR -168 or WRPS) also known as APIs.
So, you'll need two things to get you going. A Portal framework and A Portlet API.
Expensive
IBM Websphere Portal Solution V5.1
IBM Rational Application Developer v6.0.0.1
Alternatives/Open Source
LIFERAY 3.5
Gridsphere 2.0
Pluto
SUN Portal Server
ETC. You should always keep in mind you want a Framework that support JSR-168 and Portlet APIs tha comply to JSR 168. Is your safest route.
Have fun,
Robert
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Hi all,
Can anyone please tell me what the cheapest way is of obtaining the install files needed to setup Portal 5.1?
I'd like to set this up at home so that I study for my 5.1 dev exam, but there doesnt appear to be any trial version available for download.
In order to get my hands on this, do I need to become a member of partner world, or is there another way? If so, could you tell me what level I need and how much this would cost me?
I have tried directing this question to an email address for support at PartnerWorld but have heard nothing...
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ian
(PCLP Domino Developer)
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| You can download Rational Application Developer (RAD) from IBM website and prepare yourself with Portal 5.0 Test environment. As of now, you cannot download Portal 5.1 test environment as a developer.
Regards,
Bala
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