Developing New Theme Skin modules in Websphere Portal 8.5
To develop new Themes/Skins in IBM Websphere
Portal 8.5 you need the following.
1.
IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5
2.
IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) 8 or above
/ IBM Rational Software Architect.
3.
WebDAV Client (not mandatory but good to have)
The steps mentioned below are required to be
followed to develop a new Them in
IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5.
Theme Resources
To set up the custom theme in an EAR file we need
to retrieve the source from the shipped theme.
We need two kind of resources for this:
1. Dynamic resources
2. Static resources
Dynamic Resources: Copy the following folders to your own folder
Location: /WebSphere/PortalServer/theme/wp.theme.themes/default85/installedApps/DefaultTheme85.ear/DefaultTheme85.war
Folders to copy
·
skins
·
themes
·
WEB-INF/decorations.xml
·
WEB-INF/tld/*
Static Resources: To retrieve the static resources we need to retrieve the content through the browser, using the following URLs:
Common Resources –
Unpack
the ZIP files and save them to a temporary folder.
When
common-resources are unzipped, the folder is named only “ibm”. Move the folder
“ibm” into a newly created folder with the name “common-resources”.
Some
sample screenshots are shown below:
