Portlet specification

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Portlet specification

• Java Community Process, JSR-168
• Alejandro.Abdelnur_at_sun.com (co-lead)

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Whos involved

• Specification leads IBM Sun.
• Expert Group members Apache, ATG, BEA, Boeing,
  Borland, BroadVision, Citrix, Epicentric,
  Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IONA, Oracle, SAP, SAS,
  SilverStream Sybase.

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Current schedule

• March - Expert Group work first meeting
• May/June - first draft, specification and RI
• October - final draft, specification and RI
• December - V 1.0 specification, RI TCK

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Goals

• Define common Portal metaphor
• Define a standard Portlet Java API
• Ensure interoperability and portability
• Enable multiple markups support
• Maximize the leverage of existing Java APIs
• Ensure compatibility with other technologies

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Portal reference architecture

Window Config
Security
Enterprise Information Systems
Portlet Dispatcher
Portlet
Remote Execution module
Portlet
Aggregation Engine
Portlet
User Configuration/ Personalization Engine
Persistent Data Store
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Various technical topics

• Relationship with the servlet container/API
• Window states portlet modes
• Portlet requests events
• Packaging
• Caching
• Persistent configuration data
• Security

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Various technical topics (cont.)

• i18n and L10n
• Hot re/deployment
• Parallel execution
• Aggregation

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Remote execution

• OASIS WSRP

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Thanks