Ken Ramirez has 17 years of experience providing development services, consulting, and training to companies (both large and small) throughout the United States. He consults in various market industries including finance, insurance, computer-aided design, community portals, and automobile. Ken's Java expertise includes J2EE, XML, portals, UML, and many open source technologies. His latest venture is the www.TheJavaThinkTank.org community portal site.
Related Links: Understanding Portals and Portlets: Part One
In the November issue of JDJ (Vol. 9, issue 11) I explained the theory behind
the JSR 168 (Portlet Specification) from an academic perspective. The
specification provides the infrastructure, classes, interfaces, and JSP tags
for building applications that can be pieced together from a handful of
off-the-shelf or custom portlets. This time around, I provide you with a
real-world implementation that utilizes the knowledge you picked up from Part
1 of this series.
Along the way, you'll learn how to properly install Pluto (the Portlet
Reference Implementation you can use to test your portlets) and learn about
some pretty cool tools as well.
A Quick Refresher
Last month, we learned that portlets are similar to servle... (more)
Related Links: Understanding Portals and Portlets: Part Two
It used to be difficult if you wanted to create a Web-based site that offered
users the ability to access various systems from a single page. Systems were
too severely disjointed and required a huge investment of time and work in
order to bring them together in a single Web page.
Although there are many efforts taking place in the ... (more)
Ken Ramirez has 17 years of experience providing development services, consulting, and training to companies (both large and small) throughout the United States. He consults in various market industries including finance, insurance, computer-aided design, community portals, and automobile. Ken's Java expertise includes J2EE, XML, portals, UML, and many open source technologies. His latest venture is the www.TheJavaThinkTank.org community portal site.
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