inter portlet communication - how to?

[Stefaan Nachtergaele <st...@nachtergaele.net>]

Hi all
I would like to have my portlets communicate with eachother. The kind of
things I want to do is:
On closing portlet x, display tab 3, change the controller for the tab to
25/75 column, minimize portlet y and display portlet u and v in normal mode.

Obviously, it makes no sense to handle this on portlet level of 'x'. this
needs to be done on Controller level (PanedPortletController).

I make a CommsPortletController which subclasses
VelocityPanedPortletController. I override getContent(RunData) to first
calculate what tab needs to be displayed, then call the super method. The
calculation is delegated to a PortletComms instance. There's one PorletCOmms
instance for each per user session. On each level I override the controller
to change the layout for the underlying portlets.

Is this the way to go about this?

Thanks,
Stefaan









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