Advantage of Using FLEX with IBM WebSphere Portals

As J2EE technology has evolved, much emphasis has been placed on the challenges of building enterprise applications and bringing those applications to the Web. At the core of the challenges currently being faced by Web developers is the integration of disparate user content into a seamless Web application and well-designed user interface. Portal technology provides a framework to build such applications for the Web.

Portals facilitate the aggregation of content in an integrated user interface. However, portlets are typically rendered in HTML and therefore inherit the limitations of HTML for building applications. These limitations include a page refreshes, stateless clients, lack of smart client-side data manipulation, limited number of user interface components, and so forth.

You can use Flex to render the user interface of portlets, overcome the limitations of HTML, and greatly improve the user experience within a portal.