Title
Standards for Second-Generation Portals
Author
Fernando Bellas
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2004)
(Original Publish Date: 2004)
Abstract
By integrating applications and resources, portals let users access information in a simple, straightforward manner. Currently, most portals let users create one or more personal pages composed of portlets—interactive Web mini-applications. Until recently, no standards for portlets existed, and thus consuming remote portlets in a generic way or deploying portlets in one portal server that were developed in a different one has been impossible. Two standards released in Fall 2003—the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and the Java portlet specification—address these problems. This articles outlines these standards and presents a typical architecture for a standards-based portal.
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