Prerequisites for the Personalization portlet exercise

This exercise is intended for users with significant HCL Digital Experience (DX) administration experience and strong Java Portlet development skills.

Software requirements

The following software must be installed:

• HCL Digital Experience, including HCL Web Content Manager. You can use the default database or another supported database.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code with DX Portlet Development Utilities. No agent controller is required. No WebSphere Test Environment or integrated Portal environment is used in this example. For more information, check the available HCL DX advanced development course at HCL Software U.
• Git or git-bash
• Maven
• EJB-ThinClient jar-file from a traditional IBM WebSphere Application Server. This JAR file is required to compile the project correctly. You need to add a reference of this file into the pom.xml file.