Re: Confirmation about portlet application and portlet

[Richard Jacob <ja...@apache.org>]

Masumi Ito wrote:

>1. Can we include a number of portlets in one portlet 
>application?
>  
>
yes you can, this is the way jsr168 describes it.
A portlet application can consist of multiple portlets.

>If possible, these portlets can share same session with cookie 
>initialized per group(portlet application).
>
correct.

> And then it 
>seems that deployment working of portlet is carried out not per 
>portlet but per portlet application, so by just once installing 
>a portlet application in Tomcat, WSRP Producer can
>expose multi-portlets included in it as WSRP portlets.
>(In this case, these can be different kinds of portlets.)
>  
>
correct.

>
>2. If 1. is possible, all of these portlets' meta infomation 
>need to be written anywhere.  Portlet.xml corresponds to this 
>in JSR168 Spec. 
>Well, should we prepare portlet.xml files as many as the 
>number of portlets included in the portlet application? 
>Or prepare a portlet.xml file and write many meta-info about 
>them in it?
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Same as the jsr168 spec & pluto implementation (since we are using their 
container),
One portlet.xml containing info about all portlets.

>
>3. If both 1. and 2. are OK, can a portlet call for other 
>portlets included in the same portlet application with same 
>session shared?
>  
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no, there is no portlet forwarding/including in jsr168.

>If so, we can make portlet application utilizing coordination 
>between portlets.
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Coordination of portlets is not specified yet neither in the portlet 
spec nor in wsrp.
However both committees will be/are working on coordination and will be 
specified in the next spec versions.

cu
Richard