ATG Portal - Copying Portlets

I have been wondering why one of the Leading portal of times has not kept pace with the competitors! ATG was the pioneer in many streams, technologies. The portals like IBM Portal Server and BEA Weblogic's Portal server have moved ahead a lot making usage of Portal very easy.

Though the features provided by ATG Portal still are of high quality, I find the usage a little difficult. We had a requirement of copying the ATG portlets which is not supported by ATG. There's a workaround though - create multiple instances of the portlet.


Will ATG look at making it more simpler?

Portal Dashboard - What's the ideal number of portlets?

What is the ideal no. of portlets to be displayed on the dashboard? I think it should not be more than eight. That's my opinion.

I have seen a few customers making the dashboard heavy with as many as 12 portlets. With all the configurations required to process the synthetic portlets, it becomes a bottleneck for the performance of the site.

Also, the user will be stuffed with too many information on one screen making it least presentable. Chances are there that the user might miss a portlet!

What do you think it should be? Any comments?

IBM Portlet Factory - Back in Action!

IBM Portlet factory, renamed after acquiring Bowstreet, is back in action and making news! With the customizable code available at your disposal it is more easy to create a simple portal quickly.

What IBM Portlet factory provides is the power of customizing this portal quickly to create one more based on some rules. Maintenance of the portal source is one avoiding and reducing a lot of testing time.

With improved features and IBM tag, Portlet factory is sure to make some news for sometime at the least!