Part 3. Advanced portlet development

Support for personalizing content and behavior and inter-portlet communication are key features of portlets. Also, it’s important to be able to create highly responsive portlets in today’s Web 2.0 world.

This part of the book begins by showing how Java portlet technology provides built-in support for personalization and inter-portlet communication. It then takes a deep dive into Ajax and shows how you can develop highly responsive portlets using jQuery, Dojo, and DWR. For those who want to use portlets to show real-time data, this part discusses Comet (or Reverse Ajax) support in DWR in the context of an example portlet.

The second half of this part shows how you can use portlet bridges to expose an existing ...

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