4.8. Listeners
The event model of the IBM Portal API is very similar to the traditional Java event model. However, there are two main points of distinction. First, there is no need to register listeners. When a portlet in installed, the Portal Server determines the listeners it implements and registers them on behalf of the portlet. Secondly, since the registration is taken care of by the Portal Server, it is not possible to specify which portlets a particular portlet wishes to register for. Therefore, portlets implementing listeners need to carefully plan for unsolicited and unexpected events.
There are several listeners defined in the IBM Portal API. The ActionListener is covered in the Event handling section and the MessageListener is covered ...
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