Chapter 2: The Access Integration Pattern

Overview

So far in this redbook, we have introduced the key concepts behind the Patterns for e-business. In this chapter, we will introduce the Access Integration pattern and Portal Composite pattern. The goal of these patterns is to provide a solution for the pervasive requirements that are currently being identified as organizations deploy portal solutions into their environments and integrate them into their business processes.

Later on in this book, we will use the WebSphere Everyplace Access 4.2 product to implement pervasive solutions.

In this chapter, you can read about the Portal Composite pattern and the WebSphere Portal Server. You will also find that the WebSphere Everyplace Access product ships with WebSphere Portal Server. The relation between WebSphere Everyplace Access and WebSphere Portal Server requires some explanation. The portal server in WebSphere Everyplace Access serves two purposes:

• To provide a portal application server for pervasive solutions; it also includes the Transcoding Technology

• To provide management interface for Pervasive services such as Intelligent Notification.