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Posted to pluto-user@portals.apache.org by ChadDavis <ch...@gmail.com> on 2006/05/04 23:21:41 UTC

uses of portlets

Hello.

I'm considering using portlets but am a bit confused, initially, about
their scope.  From my initial reading, it seems that they might be
used for rather trivial things.  I refer to the simple rendering and
action modes.

Perhaps I've got the wrong impression, but I thought I'd put this out
here to see what you think.  Can I use portlets to bring a full
fledged, complex web applicaiton into a portlet on my portal site? 
I'm thinking of making a portlet that contains Blojsom, a full
featured blog application that is implemented as a java web
application.  Is this an appropriate use for portlets?

Chad

Re: uses of portlets

Posted by avin98 <av...@yahoo.com>.

I think you can pretty much build a complex application within Portals.
Ofcourse there are certain restrictions that the Portlet Server enforces:

Some of which are:
- Unlike servlets, portlets are not bound to a logical location (URL) 
- Cannot do redirects/forwards from within a portlet or set header
information
- Typically cannot used <html> & <head> tags from within a portlet

You may want to check on a portlet blog (although its in Japanese)
http://pal.sourceforge.jp/blog/cvs-usage.html

Hope this helps.
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