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The dynamic profiling capability of WebSphere Portlet Factory helps developers to create multiple, highly customized applications from one code base. Using the dynamic profiling capability, you can define variables in a common profile set that can be configured by multiple tenants in a shared environment. The multiple applications are created by applying those configured profiles to the portlets to change the appearance, content, and behavior of the portlet. In this article, you see an extension of the multi-tenant scenario first described in Part 1. In this Part 8, you learn how to implement, manage, and specify WebSphere Portlet Factory profiles for multiple tenants in a composite application for banking. The article concludes with a comparison of the dynamic profiling configuration capabilities to the basic configuration capabilities portlets provide.
The dynamic profile capabilities are demonstrated using the Jivaro banking use case that is depicted in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Jivaro use case
The scenario actors are:
- Bank Provider Operations Administrator: an administrator who has the
capability to configure the bank profiles for Jivaro Bank.
- Bank Administrator: the administrator for each hosted bank that has the capability
to perform account operations through Web pages.
- Bank Customers: customers of the hosted banks who have the capability to view their account information through Web pages.
The account object is the subject of this scenario. The scenario illustrates how two banks hosted in the Jivaro environment, Bank1 and Bank2, can customize the appearance of the common account object displayed in the portals of each bank.
WebSphere Portlet Factory runtime runs in the portal server as a common dynamic Web application. In this scenario, a profile is configured for each bank that WebSphere Portlet Factory uses to generate different unique portlets. When bank customers log into their banks, the corresponding profiles for their banks are selected by portal servers to feed the parameters to the portals. Figure 2 shows that the Web pages on the left and right are two different Web pages that are generated by different profiles based on the same code. Notice that the labels and the optional values are different. Bank 001 labels the sixth field as Account Name, while Bank 002 labels the sixth field as Branch. In the Account Type field, Bank 001 provides two selections (savings or checking) and Bank 002 provides three fields (savings, checking, and external).
The portlet at the top of Figure 2 shows the configuration capability to the Banking Provider Operations Administrator.
Figure 2. Profile mechanism
Begin by creating the portlets for Bank1 and Bank2 using WebSphere Portlet Factory. This involves creating the SubscriberAccount Portlet used by the bank administrator to manage account information in his bank, and it involves using the UserAccountsView Portlet used by the bank customer to view his account information. After that, you can implement the dynamic profiles needed to customize the portlets, which is documented in the following sections.
The profiling activity involves three steps:
- Create a profile set using the Profile Set Manager in WebSphere Portlet
Factory Designer. A profile set is a container that stores a set of parameters
used by the profiles associated with the profile set. For the example, create a profile set named "J2BWPFportletsConfigPS" and add profile
entries that represent basic attributes of banks, endpoints of Web services,
and advanced configuration parameters, such as the show/hide status of
- Create a profile for each bank. Create two profiles named bank1 and bank2.
- Set the parameter values in the profiles. Details follow in the next sections.
Tip: In order to ensure several portlets can use the same profile set, integrate them in the same WebSphere Portlet Factory project. All the models in the same WebSphere Portlet Factory project can share the same profile set.
Step 1a: Profile basic attributes
In Jivaro Bank, each bank has a unique identifier and a name. These basic attributes need to be set up as configurable parameters.
- Open the Variable builder named bankId.
- Click the profile mechanism icon
beside Initial Value.
- At the Profile Input prompt, select
as the Profile Set Name and selectbankId
as Profile Entry Name (see Figure 3).
- Edit the entry values. Set 001 to bank1 profile, and set 002 to bank2 profile.
- Click OK.
Figure 3. Profile variable bankId
Step 1b: Profile endpoints of Web services
Web service endpoints can vary among tenants. The endpoints need to be specified as parameters.
- Open a Web Service Call builder, and click
to open advanced inputs.
- Click the profile mechanism icon
beside Service URL (override).
- At the Profile Input prompt, select
as the Profile Set Name, and selectaccountQueryWithoutSelectorEP
as the Profile Entry Name (see Figure 4).
- Edit the entry value of profile bank1 and profile bank2.
- Click OK.
Figure 4. Profile service endpoint
Step 1c: Profile show/hide status
AccountName and Description are desired fields for Bank1 but not for Bank2. Show/Hide status is the setting that enables this behavior.
- Open the Data Column Modifier builder that is used in the Add Account Web
page. Make sure the check box beside Manage Columns is checked.
- Click the profile mechanism icon
to the left of the AccountName row in the column table.
- At the Profile Row of Inputs prompt, click the profile mechanism icon beside Status (see Figure 5).
- At the Profile Input prompt, select
as the Profile Set Name, and selectaccount_AccountName_Enable
as the Profile Entry Name (see Figure 6).
- Edit entry values, set Show to bank1 profile, and set Hide to bank2 profile.
- Click OK.
Figure 5. Profile row
Figure 6. Profile show/hide status
Step 1d: Profile field description
WebSphere Portlet Factory provides the functionality to configure the description of a field. The description of AccountName is an example.
- Open the Data Column Modifier builder that is used in the add account Web page.
Make sure the check box beside Manage Columns is checked.
- Click the profile mechanism icon
to the left of the row AccountName in the column table.
- When you see the Profile Row of Inputs prompt, click the profile mechanism icon beside Column Heading (see Figure
- At the Profile Input prompt, select
as the Profile Set Name, and selectaccount_AccountName
as the Profile Entry Name (see Figure 7).
- Edit entry values: set Account Name to bank1 profile, and set Branch to bank2
- Click OK.
Figure 7. Profile field description
Step 1e: Profile values of optional list
The optional values of a field can also be configured. AccountType is an example.
- Add a Data Field Modifier builder to the model.
- Set the input Field Selector Tool to
Select By Name
, and set the input fields to the name of AccountType in Data Page.
- Set the input Field Behavior to
Data Entry
. Set the input Content Type toSelect
. Set the input Enumeration Options toSpecify Below
(see Figure 8).
- Click the profile mechanism icon
beside Select Data. A Profile Input prompt appears. Select
as the Profile Set Name, and selectaccount_accountType
as the Profile Entry Name (see Figure 9).
- Edit entry values: set SAVINGS,CHECKINGS to the bank1 profile, and set
SAVINGS, CHECKINGS, EXTERNAL to the bank2 profile.
- Click OK.
Figure 8. Data field modifier builder
Figure 9. Profile values of optional list
Step 2: Create a portlet for configuration
In this section, you create a portlet to manage the profile entry values for the profile set J2BWPFportletsConfigPS, which you created in Step 1. WebSphere Portlet Factory provides a suite of APIs to create, update, and delete profiles. Using these APIs, you can create a portlet to expose the values you want to be customizable, and you provide a user interface to set these values.
Step 2a: Add customizable variables
Values of profile entries are shown and updated through Web pages. To enable this, you need to create variables for storing the name of selected profiles and the values of profile entries. You already created a string variable called SelectedProfile for the selected profile name. In order to keep a simple map between variables and the profiles entries, name the variables using a prefix pfvar_ concatenated to the name of the profile entry. Some sample variables are shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10. Sample variables
Step 2b: Develop a helper class using profiling APIs
Figure 11 shows the main classes and methods for profiling. Use ProfileSetStorageManager to get a profile set by the name, and save a profile set. Use ProfileSet to get its profiles. Use Profile and ProfileValue to get the values of profile entries.
Figure 11. Profiling API
Using these APIs, a helper class is created to implement the following functions (see com.ibm.J2B.wpf.profile.ProfileCustomizeHelper in WPFPortlets.zip).
- Getting a list of profiles from the profile set (see method
- Getting values of profile entries of a profile, and setting them to variables
in Web applications (see method getVariables)
- Getting the updated values of profile entries from HttpServletRequest, and saving them to profile set (see method saveProfile).
In this step, you add controls to the configuration portlet to handle the variables and invoke the functions.
- Add a linked Java™ object, and set the class name to be the helper
- Use an html table to edit the page layout. The name of the
tag must be same as the variable name (see Listing 1).
- Add a Select builder onto tag SelectedProfile. Set Select Data to be the return of method getProfiles, and set Selected Values to be the variable SelectedProfile.
- Add an HTML Event Action Builder, specifying to invoke the getVariables method
when the selected profile is changed.
- Add HTML controls (such as Select and Text Input) to other named tags to
display profile entries. Specify the values to be the corresponding variables.
- Add a submit button, and specify to invoke saveProfile method when the button is clicked.
Listing 1. HTML code
 <form name="myForm" method="post">

  Profile:

  BankId:

  BankName:

 </form>  |
Step 3: Create a custom Profile Selection Handler
When there are multiple profiles within a profile set, the profile selection handler determines which profile should be used. There are several predefined handlers in WebSphere Portlet Factory, such as Explicit Handler and J2EE Role Handler. You can define your own selection handler. In this scenario, you can define a simple custom profile selection handler that associates a separate profile for each bank.
Step 3a: Implement a handler class
The SelectionHandler class implements the ProfileSelection interface, which has a method selectProfile(). This method selects a Profile from the specified ProfileSet that is passed in and returns its name. The source code of the handler class is shown in Listing 2.
Listing 2. Source code of the handler class
public class BankUserSelectorHandler extends SelectionHandlerBase { public String selectProfile(HttpServletRequest request, ProfileSet profileSet, String modelName, String explicitProfile, ModelInstanceCreator modelInstanceCreator) { String userid = ""; try { userid = request.getRemoteUser(); int index = userid.indexOf('@'); if (index == -1) return ProfileSet.DEFAULT; String domain = userid.substring(index + 1); return domain; } catch (Exception e) {} return ProfileSet.DEFAULT; } } |
Step 3b: Create a handler definition
The handler definition is an XML file that lists the Java classes used to implement the profile selection handler and properties of the profile selection handler. All handler definitions are stored in the WEB-INF/config/selection_handlers directory. The handler definition file in the example scenario is shown in Listing 3.
Listing 3. Handler definition file
<Handler name="J2BBankProfileSelectionHandler"> <Description>Handler for J2B WPF portlet</Description> <Selection class="com.ibm.J2B.wpf.handler.BankUserSelectorHandler" /> </Handler> |
Step 3c: Set the profile selection handler for the profile set
After creating the custom profile selection handler, set this selection handler for the profile set J2BWPFportletsConfigPS.
- Double-click WEB-INF/profiles/J2BWPFportletsConfigPS profile set to
open it.
- In the Select Handler tab, choose the selection handlers you created from the
Profile Selection Handler select box (see Figure 12).
- Save the profile set.
Figure 12. Set the profile selection handler
Comparing with a non-WebSphere Portlet Factory solution
The configure mode of portlets also provides configurability. But the parameters in portlet configure mode and the function scope are only related to one portlet. For parameters that are shared among several portlets, such as bank id, bank name, and common Web services' endpoints, they need to be configured in each portlet. With WebSphere Portlet Factory dynamic profiles, you can develop a centralized portlet to provide a configuration user interface. The shared parameters need to be set only once, which decreases the workload and possibility of error.
Without WebSphere Portlet Factory, the configuration of portlets is implemented by JSP and Java code. You get the values of configuration parameters through a Java API. More complicated code is needed to provide more advanced configuration, such as configuring the hide/show status of a field or configuring the optional values in a drop-down list. With WebSphere Portlet Factory dynamic profiles, configuration of Web applications becomes very easy and powerful, providing configuration capability without writing code.
Although WebSphere Portlet Factory provides these advantages, there are no what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSWYG) tools for the development of WebSphere Portlet Factory, as there are for JSP and HTML. WebSphere Portlet Factory provides wizard-like builders, which are more abstract than WYSWYG tools. Using meaningful builder names is very important in portlet development with WebSphere Portlet Factory.
This article described how to implement a configurable user interface using WebSphere Portlet Factory dynamic profiles. Profiling is a very robust WebSphere Portlet Factory feature. A profile contains a set of parameters (name/value pairs) that drive the generation of customized portlets. Using profiles, you can automatically generate different variations of a portlet from the same model for different users or situations. The steps you followed involved profiling the portlet, creating a portlet to configure profile entry values, creating a custom profile selection handler, and associating the profile set with this selection handler. While the same functionality can be created by writing code, WebSphere Portlet Factory provides a set of builders that enable the implementation of this function without writing code.
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Finally Magi makes a return after its two week hiatus, and truth be told i feel a little underwhelmed by its first two chapters. Not that they were bad; but i am just that impatient to get to the summit between Sinbad and Koeun.
But i suppose things are going to be slow going for a while now; i mean we haven't event gotten back to Balbad yet, and once there who knows what mischief Kouen is going to get up to. It might be up to ten chapters before we get into the thick of the arc.
As the summit draws near Kouen sends a delegation to Sindira, requesting Alibaba and Aladdin to escort him and his house to the meeting point, the rules set and which bar the use of metal vessels within the vicinity of the meeting point restricting the entire party to the sea. Sinbad smells a trap, Kouen possibly attempting to wring the secrets out of Aladdin before the summit. Alibaba volunteers to make the trip, Toto, Olba and Mori volunteering to accompany him.
Along the way Alibaba is dogged by fears and doubts over returning to Balbad. The crew is confronted by pirates armed with weapons from Magnostadht; after expressing loyalty to Alibaba, Toto and Olba are accepted into into his household by Amon, defeating the pirates with their new found powers. Aladdin gets a new wand.
Two decent chapters, each furthering the story in its own way. Chapter 201 set the pace for the approaching summit, with kouen showing his devious side. We can expect considerable chaos at the summit; because even if Sinbad believed that Kouen craved knowledge too much to try anything with Aladdin even if he had gone to Balbad with Alibaba, he doesn't believe the empire will approach the summit without its metal vessels as promised.
And with Kouen set to sabotage things with his arrogance, and Sinbad putting counter measures in place, we can expect the confrontation we have been waiting for between Sinbad and Kouen. The question is what does Aladdin have to tell these two that we don't already know? Sure we know what happened with regards to Alma Toran, but i have a feeling Aladdin is going to reveal more on that day than has been told to us.
The question is how Hakuryuu and his corrupted Magi will fit into the arc; technically hakuryuu isn't evil, after all he wants to destroy the Ko empire, which would serve the world's interests. The problem will probably arise with how he chooses to go about it.
It was interesting watching Alibaba doubt himself, regarding how he might have abandoned Balbad; but more so his fears about reaching home and finding that Balbad has prospered without his assistance. It was an honest desire he expressed, the need to play a part in his home's prosperity and future and how haunted he was by the idea that the opportunity had slipped by as he journeyed with Aladdin.
Now Alibaba has his own household, or at least the first three members of what should be an interesting crew. I look forward to watching this young prince develop and grow, mentally and physically as Aladdin's chosen king.
RATING: 3/5, decent amount of story, though i am anxiously anticipating the coming summit.
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noclass Posts: 24TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE SOUTHEAST MEET AND GET-TOGETHER AT TEAGUE'S AUTO IN NORTH CAROLINA ON 27 MAY-- SEE http://www.subaruclub.com OUR EVENTS PAGE FOR INFO !
noclass Posts: 24Will be in the Charlottesville VA area the second or third week-end in October. Mostly just a driving tour and Brunch. I'll have more details at the August Gettysburg PA event.
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ateixeira Posts: 72,587Let's go, fellas. I'm in.
Maybe that'll inspire me to order those 16" rims and get them mounted. I'll have something new to show off.
Mike: how many are expected to attend?
Hey, we've got a lot of MDers here, so I expect you guys to show up if you can. You folks from VA (virgins??? oh, virginians) should come too!
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miksmi Silver Spring, MDPosts: 1,246Schweet! Now that we've got the main attraction, maybe the rest of the Edmund's locals will come out. Francisco, Phil (mmpkoppers): bring your GTs, I need backup! (and you can caravan from VA) Bob: you and your son can represent OBS, and bring Dave (dsattler). WDB (francophile), caravan w/Audrey's RS (email me for her info).
Aapologies for those I omitted but if you lurk or if your profile doesn't say where you're located, I missed you but that doesn't mean you're not invited!
From Jeff:
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So that could mean anything. Audrey is coming from Philadelphia, and I think 10 RSVP'd on i Club.
Thanks for posting your support, juice!
Now who else will accept juice's "challenge"? If you want to ask questions of AJ, the almighty himself, this will be the place to be.
PS - Sorry juice but I was temporarily overcome by marketspeak.
PPS - LOTS of twisties in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center -- it's a research farm that your (USA, that is) tax dollars bought, so use it! And it's minutes away from the meet...Mike
ateixeira Posts: 72,587Uh-oh, expectations are high. I'd better bring some cool tools with me. Maybe at least a hydraulic floor jack.
KenS: I'm way ahead of you there. Will take both digital and 35mm cameras for the event. Hope to get some hot pics of the slammed Imprezas, which I imagine will dominate.
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miksmi Silver Spring, MDPosts: 1,246juice, If you by slammed you mean lowered like the one we saw at the DC auto show, you might not see any. The i Club'ers that have RSVPd are auto-crossers with mods like struts and swaybars (some have springs, maybe .75-1 in lower). Sure, a few are boy racers (sans the stickers) but some are just enthusiasts like you and me. We'll keep you posted, Ken. ..Mike
ateixeira Posts: 72,587I guess I used the term loosely, but those will be plenty of fun to see regardless.
I wonder how far they can go, i.e. what kind of mods you can do while staying within the rules.
Also, someone at Subaru said the strut braces from the Impreza will not fit. Guess we can measure for ourselves.
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francophile Posts: 667It just so happens that I'll be in DC on the Friday before your MD shindig; another group of fanatics with which I have some association is assembling there for a little Cinco de Mayo bash. I was going to carpool down with a fellow (in his 1.8T A4 Avant, the excessive cost of which I was looking forward to pointing out to him at every opportunity) but since your event has apparently turned into THE place to be for a nascent Subie loon such as myself maybe I'll just drive myself down and cruise by on my way home.
I have to warn you, though; my car is S-T-O-C-K, and it is likely to be D-I-R-T-Y. I'm what you might call an old-f*rt car nut. Over the years I've managed to find a comfort zone somewhere between driving enjoyment and obsessing over whether or not I could see the reflection of airplanes flying at 60,000 feet in the shine; in my case that zone is wwwwwaaaaayyy over on the enjoyment side of the scale. So if I show up with a couple of dead bugs embedded in the nose of my GT, please try to remember that some of them "sacrificed themselves to the stars" at over 100mph before you howl in protest and light the torches. Tell you what; I'll try to run it through one of those automatic car washes (gasp!) before I get there, just to get the really big chunks off.
So, will this do as my RSVP? I just hope I don't fall off the waxaholism wagon by being around you folks. Been there, done that, used up all the t-shirts.
miksmi Silver Spring, MDPosts: 1,246Great WDB! Just STAY AWAY from the auto car wash! (I don't like the "touchless" ones either -- too many scratches on the 93 Civic.) I'd rather see a dirty GT than a scratched GT. Car washes are ok after the 5 year anniversary You, juice, and I will be the S-T-O-C-K representatives. This'll do as your RSVP; I'll collect the names from here and fill in Jeff.
Grinning a bigger grin than WDB,
francophile Posts: 667
ateixeira Posts: 72,587...just come!
I just took my Forester to the beach, so it now has a layer of sand on top of the pollen that was on there before. Didn't get to drive in the sand, but that'll be this summer in the Outer Banks.
I may or may not have time for a clean up, we'll see.
Yup, looks at the mods topic at my first post, I list them all there. With the windows tint and the roof, though, it doesn't look stock at all. Too bad the wheels I wanted are out of stock, or I'd show up with some brand new Plus Ones.
-juice -
miksmi Silver Spring, MDPosts: 1,246If your a Costco member, bring your card as there's a Costco on Rt 1 in Beltsville that sells petrol; it's about 5 mins away from the meet. Fuel is usually 8-10 cents cheaper than other stations in the vicinity (which isn't to say it's less expensive than a gas station near you). Haven't filled the tank recently so I don't know the current price, but I'll be refueling there since it's so close.
mmpkoppers Posts: 3Mike,
Just my luck that I would get called out during the period that I get way behind on the boards. Sounds like it would be fun time, and I was getting ready to clean it tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, we are already committed to another event, plus the scheduled b-day is less than a week away, so I don't think she wants to venture too far from the hospital.
Keep thinking of me, I will make one of these things yet.
phil -
francophile Posts: 667I too enjoyed meeting everyone. And thanks for the soda and food too. I grabbed an iced tea for the drive back to PA and it got me all the way home. However it would have been nice if someone had told me about the monster traffic jam out on I-95 North! I could have scooted up some other road until I cleared it. Actually it wasn't nearly as bad as the gridlock I suffered on I-695 in the middle of the day Friday; so much for beating rush hour traffic! I must say I really, REALLY am happy to have the CD player. It kept me sane.
Side note: while I was at the Subie meet NOT ONE Legacy-based OB was on site. Struck me as odd.
A slightly road-weary WDB -
miksmi Silver Spring, MDPosts: 1,246Hey guys, thanks for attending the meet! 11 Impreza 2.5 RS, 1 Forester, 1 OBS, 2 GT; what a great gathering! Wow, we had something like 3 folks from Pennsylvania, a few from Virginia, some from Carroll County, Maryland, the rest from the DC suburbs. I enjoyed meeting Bob and WDB and putting some faces and rides to the names. (juice, of course always a pleasure to see you, bud). WDB, sorry about the 95 traffic. Thanks for schlepping all the way down from PA. Jeff's a great guy; he doesn't read Edmund's but I'll send him a URL so he reads the kudos. juice, what time to you take off? Wish Icould have stayed to watch more of the rally videos. SpeedVision is yet a another reason to drop cable tv and get a satellite dish.


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Can i flattern something like You can find on the pic. ( this one is from CATIA ) or something like this. Not everything, just surface by surface. When i draw similar thing, i had problem, because i dont know how to flattern single surface, All of them are curved.
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You should spend some time on Youtube, and seach for: Inventor, +sheet metal
There are a number of good tutorials that show different features and functionality of the Sheet-Metal module in Inventor.
Yes, there are a number of good tutorials but i couldn't find the solution, that's why i am asking, i don't wanto to bend, i wander how can i make templates and than solder them toogether.
A while back (4 or 5 years ago) I posted an example very similar to this.
I will have to search a bit to find it.
It might be better for you to attach your attempt here (modeling the geometry however you can - it doesn't have to be sheet metal).
The solution turns out to be pretty simple.
ok, i made it, standart.itp., sketch( spline), model( extrude(surface option)),circular pattern, surface(trim,delete), convert to sheet metal, model(surface(thicken offset)), create flat patern, sometimes works strange way, probably i don't understand it enouht,
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