title: Automating Portlet Deployment to WebSphere Portal Server 6.1
body: <p>I've recently started on a project to develop some portlets which will run on IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.1. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of any scripts, Ant tasks, Maven plugins, etc. for publishing a portlet to Portal Server? In the WebSphere Portlet Factory plugin for eclipse it is possible to "publish" a portlet project to Portal Server instance, however I'd like to know what's going on underneath the hood here (or at least how to replicate the behaviour) so that I can do it in other places (i.e. from continuous integration server).</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: From what I've read it sounds like the Portlet Factory publishes using a WebSphere JMX client. Does anyone know where I can find more details on this?</p>