This course provides comprehensive training to administer WebSphere Portal. It covers fundamental concepts of designing and creating portlets, new features of WebSphere Portal 8.0 like managed pages, and best practices for developing robust portlet applications using technologies like Dojo, Ajax, and client-side aggregation. The course uses Rational Application Developer and makes extensive use of the Java Portlet Specification. Key topics include portlet concepts, tasks, development, deployment, testing, APIs, tag libraries, input processing, customization, interactive portlets, JavaServer Faces, iWidgets, resources, Dojo, portlet services, filters, personalization, portal branding, and multichannel applications.