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developerWorks: The case for portlets

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:37:07 -0400

we have a choice of using weblogic portal or struts/tiles in a project. since you seems to have worked with both technologies, can you identify the pros and cons between using weblogic portal and struts/tiles?

Portals are good for more than a homepage

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:39:15 -0500

A portlet, at least in WL has the capability of min/normal/maximizing itself in the portlet container. I don't think Tiles covers this. This allows one portlet to support a component (normal size) view on the home page and a maximzied (application)...

Request and rendering phases

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:14:47 -0500

I agree with your comments about portal vendors not really educating the public about what a portal does. But then, I think the concept of a portlet is misapplied a lot. To me, portlets address the need of having quick access to data from a lot of...

Request and rendering phases

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:42:53 -0500

Hmmm. That's interesting. WL Portal has an event framework, so I guess one can do something similar to IBM's design....

Request and rendering phases

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:30:09 -0500

I think what Johan is referring to is the method used, at least in IBM's portal server, where all portlets first go through a request phase in parallel, and then they all begin a rendering phase in parallel. The request phase allows portlets to generate...

developerWorks: The case for portlets

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:33:09 -0500

How do you mean "separation between request and rendering phase?" We're using Weblogic Portal right now and it just seems to be .jsp snippets in a table. I'm interested to see what you think.

Steve

Vick

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:47:57 -0500

For seperating I mostly do MVC (Struts), that is the major separation.

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You're looking in the wrong place

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:06:12 -0500

The site you're looking for is:

portolets.html

paradigm shift

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:06:55 -0500

It would be nice to have some sort of orgainized criteria that would help determine if a portal and portlets are required. Choosing a portal container and portlet componentization strategy seems to be heading the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Web App...

Good reasons not to use portlets

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:32:47 -0500

I think this article is actually quite good. Note that it is written from an IBM perspective, so the benefits that are listed are all benefits of IBM's portal server, not necessarily all portal servers. In addition to IBM's, I've used two other vendor's...

JSR 168 is not released yet

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:55:35 -0500

JSR 168 may have been started a year ago but it has not been released as a community draft yet. That is why the portal vendors haven't released implementations of the spec yet.

-Mike

Templates

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:50:17 -0500

you can use templates in JSP without Struts too. Check out this for example:
www.servletsuite.com/servlets/template.htm

Abrandft

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:34:07 -0500

re: " there is no separation between"...

developerWorks: The case for portlets

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:02:04 -0500

, I found that Tiles work great as portlet, relative to other "portlet"

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why JSR not followed by portal servers

Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:52:03 -0500

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