What is meant by portlet?
A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user.
What is Spring portlet?
Spring Portlet is a framework released from Spring community for easier development of Java Portlets. In this article, we will learn about programming Portlets using Spring Portlets framework which is a layer built on top of Java Portlet Specification (JSR 168).
What is Spring Portlet?
What is Servlet in advanced Java?
A servlet is a Java programming language class that is used to extend the capabilities of servers that host applications accessed by means of a request-response programming model. Although servlets can respond to any type of request, they are commonly used to extend the applications hosted by web servers.
What is portlet context in spring?
In addition to supporting conventional (servlet-based) Web development, Spring also supports JSR-286 Portlet development. As much as possible, the Portlet MVC framework is a mirror image of the Web MVC framework, and also uses the same underlying view abstractions and integration technology.
What is Portal and portlet?
A portal is a collection of mini web applications, called portlets. A portal supports features like personalization, content aggregation, authentication, and customization. Portlets act as windowed web applications within the portal, and each window in a portal web page (called a portal page) represents a portlet.
Will my portlet run on other portal containers?
When you develop portlets for Liferay DXP, you can leverage all the features defined by the portlet specification. Depending on how you develop and package your portlet, however, it may not be able to run on other portal containers. You may now be saying, “Hold on a minute!
Can Liferay DXP portlets run on other portal containers?
When you develop portlets for Liferay DXP, you can leverage all the features defined by the portlet specification. Depending on how you develop and package your portlet, however, it may not be able to run on other portal containers. You may now be saying, “Hold on a minute! I thought Liferay DXP was standards-compliant? What gives?”
What are the different phases of a portlet?
Each portlet phase executes different operations: Render: Generates the portlet’s contents based on the portlet’s current state. When this phase runs on one portlet, it also runs on all other portlets on the page. The Render phase runs when any portlets on the page complete the Action or Event phases.
Is Liferay DXP standards-compliant?
Liferay DXP is standards-compliant, but it contains some sweeteners in the form of APIs designed to make developers’ lives easier. For example, Liferay DXP contains an MVC framework that makes it simpler to implement MVC in your portlet.