Course Description
This one-day course is designed for IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory developers who have the fundamental development skills covered in the IBM webSphere Portlet Factory Version 6.0: Developer Fundamentals course. This course supplements these basic skills with additional topics including architectural considerations, design, and best practices.

This course is designed as a series of lab activities. Instructors lead students to identify and construct several custom Builders. At the end of the course, students will know how to extend the builder tools available in the WebSphere Portlet Factory to create new builders that can be used to effectively and efficiently build Web applications specific to their organization's business requirements.

Class Length
1 day

Objectives
After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Discuss best practices for designing a WebApp.
• Describe the Builder architecture.
• Create simple custom Builders.
• Build a model-based Builder.

Who will benefit from this course
The target audience for this course is IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory developers who have the fundamental skills covered in the IBM webSphere Portlet Factory V6.0: Developer Fundamentals course.

Prerequisites
The prerequisites for IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory Version 6.0: Advanced Developer Topics include:

• IBM® WebSphere® Portlet Factory Version 6.0: Developer Fundamentals
• 3-day course or equivalent knowledge.
• Working competency in the Java programming language.