Presentation given at a Portal Workshop at the University of Reading

1. Portlets 2.0 JSR 286 Steve Millidge Member of the JSR286 Expert Group Architect of the Open Source iPoint Portal [email_address] www.c2b2.co.uk

2. What is a Portlet “ A portlet is an application that provides a specific piece of content (information or service) to be included as part of a portal page.” The JSR 286 Spec

3. The Portlet Container “ A portlet container runs portlets and provides them with the required runtime environment.” The JSR 286 Spec

4. Architecture Portal Local Portlet Container 2 Remote Portlet Container Local Portlet Container 1 Portlet API Portlet API Portlet Portlet Portlet Portlet Portlet

5. JSR 168 Limitations

7. JSR 286 Building Bridges

10. Portlet Communication

13. Possible Usage Product Catalogue Portlet 1) processAction Portal 2) setEvent(EventPayload) Shopping Cart Portlet 3) processEvent() 4) render() 5) render()

16. Thank you