Welcome to the Portlet Community

If J2EE based portals, JSR 168 or WSRP mean anything to you, you have come to the right place. This is a gathering of developers and technical experts working on Portals and related technologies. Here you will find open source projects, articles, tips, news, product announcements, blogs and FAQs. This community is also dedicated to creating a repository of open source and free JSR 168 compliant portlets that can be used on any J2EE portal server available in the market today. This is a great place to obtain portlets, learn, discuss, share knowledge and publicize your work.

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Announcing the Portal Server for Web 2.0

eXo Platform v2, Portal, JCR, ECM, Groupware and Business Intelligence
This article revisits the open source eXo platform, detailing the most recent release in the first of two articles, discussing eXo's migration from a mere portal to a full product line incorporating the Java Content Repository API, enterprise content management, business intelligence, and groupware.

Are Portals the 'Magic Bullet' of Web Application Development?

Yash Technologies Releases JSR 168 Compliant Integration Portlets for MS Exchange Server

  (Oct 27, 2005)

Apache Pluto 1.0.1 released

  (Oct 26, 2005)

Configuring IDEs for Portal Development and Deployment

Develop a Faces JSR 168 portlet using IBM Rational Application Developer 6.0 for autonomic computing

Stringbeans 3.0 released

  (Oct 16, 2005)

Developing a Portlet Application
This tutorial explains how to use the Sun Java Studio Creator integrated development environment (IDE) to develop a JSR-168 compliant JavaServer Faces (JSF) portlet application to provide content for a portal.

BEA's Carges on portals, Ajax

What Is a Portlet ?

JBoss PortletSwap
JBoss PortletSwap is a community gathering place for JBoss Portal developers to publish and share portlets, themes and layouts. Portletswap is a one-stop-shop for JSR-168 compliant portlets and JBoss Portal themes and layouts for use in JBoss Portal

The Portal is the Platform
Michael Feldstein blogs about the concept of a Learning Management Operating System (LMOS) and why the heart of an LMOS should be a portal.

Jakarta Tapestry 4.0 adds support for portlets
Tapestry is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. Portlet support is one of the many important features in the 4.0 release.

Rich-Client Portlets And Half-Object + Protocol Design Pattern
A design pattern for Rich-Internet Applications (RIA)

Portlet messaging library
A JSR168-compliant implementation of inter-portlet communication

Asynchronous Rendering of Portlet Content With AJAX Technology
This paper introduces the AJAX technology and demonstrates its applicability to portlets with a sample portlet that renders its content through AJAX.

Use WSRP in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Get an introduction to Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP), a specification which defines how to leverage SOAP-based Web services that generate mark-up fragments within a portal application.

Development of Component-Oriented Web Interfaces
The latest trend in information portals and Web applications has been to build complex Web pages. To present large amounts of information and functionality without compromising usability, designers have imposed a clear structure by grouping related elements together.

WIT: A Framework for In-Container Testing of Web-Portal Applications
This whitepaper describes a novel approach for incontainer testing of web portal applications.

Streamline Your Portlet Development with MVCPortlet Framework
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is one of the most commonly used patterns for designing complex web applications. Several MVC frameworks (e.g., Struts) exist for building servlet-based web applications, but these frameworks do not support portlet development. This article provides an overview of MVCPortlet, a framework that addresses this need.