Portlet stuff

  • Posted by Shaun on October 6th, 2005 filed in Java, Work
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Since the portal project started at work I’ve found myself having to quickly refresh my Java skills and to quickly learn how JSP and Servlets work. I started reading a JSP book before this project so that I could help Sue with her IM project, but now that I’ve actually written some code I can see how little I really new. Now, I need to learn more about portlets. I’m still not sure how to create a JSR 168 compliant portlet. It is different than a portlet created using the IBM portlet API, but the examples we have at this point all use the IBM APIs.

All this work with portlets has piqued my interesting. It is pretty interesting stuff once you get the hang of it and actually have a project to work on. I’m in the process of writing a new portlet from scratch, but I’ll admit I’m using another portlet that was written by somebody else to help me out.

I found a pretty nice blog about portlets. There are plenty of links to portlet related articles and news. I’ll have to take some time to read through the postings.

Enough boring talk about portlets and work (for now).