Rippe & Kingston Debut LANSA-Based Portlet Generator

Published: February 21, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Rippe & Kingston Systems recently introduced e.ssential Portlet Generator, a set of LANSA-based development tools for writing JSR168-compliant portlet applications that run onIBM WebSphere Portal servers, which in turn can run on iSeries, Linux, Windows, and Unix servers.

Developers build LANSA-based portlets using the e.ssential Portlet Generator's drag-and-drop interface and dialog process, which are used for everything from laying out new and existing LANSA Web Application Modules (WAMs) and controlling the portlets "themes," to managing portlet-to-portlet communication and integrating the portlets with outside applications, including Web services and other apps written in LANSA, RPG, and even Java.

"Selecting a portal package can be among the hardest product-selection decisions an enterprise will make," says Thom Davidson, principal with Rippe & Kingston Systems. "LANSA and the e.ssential Portlet Generator for WebSphere has just made it easy."