Showing posts with label portlet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portlet. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Java portlets

Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are displayed in a web portal. For example, a portlet may be a page element showing the wether forecast.

Note how the portlet occupies only a part of the portal page. This is the primary difference between a portlet and a servlet. A portlet is meant to occupy only a part of the web page. And a portal web page consists of multiple, different portlets.

A number of vendors provide commercial implementations of the portlet container. Some of the leading vendors are IBM, Oracle, Vignette Corporation, JBoss, and Software AG. These vendors provide standards-based implementations as well as extensions not yet approved by the standards body. In addition, a number of open-source portal solutions support JSR168, such as Apache's Jetspeed-2 Enterprise Portal