Digital Prank

I am gonna write about my personal experience over the leading vendors of portal servers (BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere) who exist in the market. I am writing my experience based on Usability, regular portal features like content management, personalization, performance and some important other features like IPC (Inter Portlet Communication, JSR 168 portlet development etc).

BEA Weblogic has got a better drag and drop like IDE for portal development which will help you work with interface very easily for integrating portlets and to make further changes. But there is no such flexible IDE for Websphere but it has got a decent one but the RAD for WPS development is really good compared to Weblogic Studio environment. BEA is really good with content management.

BEA portlets are closely tied with Apache Beehive Netui tags which has got least flexibility. Development of Java (JSR 168) portlets and its administration is really good with WPS (Websphere Portal Server) which is quite tedious with BEA Weblogic.

One more feature that I am looking for is IPC (Inter portlet communication) which is really good with respect to Websphere by wiring and portlet action events which is not really good and flexible in BEA where only IPC with action events are possible as far as my experience is concerned.

With respect to performance and ruggedness IBM WPS is comparatively good for both production and development environment. BEA WLS is relatively slow and is really bugging with development environment.