Building a Web Service Powered JSR 168 Financial Portlet
Broaden the reach of your portlets by making them JSR 168-compliant.
by Howard Block, J.A. Berthe, Greg Foreman, and Stephane Dubois
September 10, 2007
n increasing number of web applications built today use portal technology. A portal is a web application that typically provides services such as personalization, single sign-on, and content aggregation from different sources. Aggregation is the action of integrating content from different sources within a web page.
Portlets are the visible active components that users see within their portal pages. In the simplest terms, for Java-based portals, a portlet is a Java servlet that operates inside a portal. Figure 1 shows an example portal page with a portlet on it. A Portal Web Server provides a portlet container that serves portlets to users.
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n increasing number of web applications built today use portal technology. A portal is a web application that typically provides services such as personalization, single sign-on, and content aggregation from different sources. Aggregation is the action of integrating content from different sources within a web page.
