What's new in WebSphere Portal 8.0 and Web Content Manager (WCM) 8.0

• Managed pages
• Process Integration
• JSF 2.0 and MyFaces Support
• WCM Capabilities
• Web Experience Factory (WEF) Capabilities

Managed pages are one of the many new capabilities in WebSphere Portal 8. A key goal of this capability is to provide a great user experience for business users managing pages and content. It simplifies release management and allows business users to have both finer and more flexible control over content and presentation in WebSphere Portal.

• These are portal pages managed by WCM.
• Pages can now have workflow and it can be any valid WCM workflow.
• In version 8, it is not 100% feature complete, e.g. can’t edit them after publishing.
• Only WCM personalization rules are applicable for content, no visibility rules.
• WCM and pages are related to each other via content mappings.

Process Integration: V8 now includes Business Process Express, which allows you to deploy business process applications. Integration with IBM Business Process Manager has always been a feature of Portal, but now you get the express software when you purchase Portal.

JSF Support: Portal 8 supports JSF 2.0 and MyFaces