Products & Tools

Products

Pete has developed a range of bespoke applications and tools. These can be used to efficiently migrate your content from an existing source into a format (RSS, XML, JSON) suitable for consumption by a target application.

Pete has considerable experience in managing and upgrading WebSphere platforms (IBM WebSphere Portal / HCL DX Portal and WebSphere Application Server) as well as Apache HTTP instances.

WCM Render

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WCM Render was built as an alternative to the IBM Cacher Module specifically for IBM Web Content Manager. It is a multithreaded Java Application with a Portlet interface to configure the system using a graphical interface.

  • Multi-threaded - up to 25,000 Content items per hour
  • Renders JSPs
  • Paged Results for Menus
  • Portlet configuration and status interface
  • Authenticated / Anonymous rendering

IBM WCM Custom Rendering Plugins / Custom Authoring Buttons

Pete has developed a number of Custom Rendering Plugins and Custom Authoring Buttons. Rendering Plugins provide the Content Authors with the ability to "insert tags" directly from the Authoring Interface.

IBM WCM Administration Tools

Pete has developed a set of bespoke Administration tools. A sample of which includes:

  • to quickly deploy JSP files to the file server remotely - browser based.
  • access the server logs remotely - browser based.

These tools (and others) allow remote access for Support personnel without the need for additional software to be installed on their desktop / laptop. Server Administrators do not need to be involved and server credentials also do not need to be disclosed to unauthorised staff.