developing portlets

HI,

I am an experienced WAS admin but do not have an java coding experience. I want to learn to develop portlets for WAS portal.

Can someone tell me what is the starting point and what are the prerequisites concepts for portlet development.

How much java coding experience is required.

your help is appreciated

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You won't be able to do anything until you develop a good grasp of basic Java. That's where to start.

First you have to go through advance java...and some sturts concepts then check it out :http://www.michael-thomas.com/tech/apache/struts/tutorial_struts2_examples_eclipse/index.htm