Bowstreet upgrades portal tools

By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News

Bowstreet this week upgraded its Portlet Factory software to make it easier for IBM WebSphere Portal customers to build portal applications. Portlet Factory 5.5 includes a series of tools including a "wizard" that walks a software programmer through the steps of creating a portlet, or an application that presents information from several applications in a single window. The goal of the Portlet Factory is to make portal application creation accessible to a wider set of programmers, not exclusively the highly skilled developers that are proficient with J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application server standard, said Joe Lichtenberg, vice president of marketing at Bowstreet.

Although Bowstreet initially sold a Web services development tool, the company has shifted its focus to creating tools for portal development, particularly highly customized applications, Lichtenberg said.

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