Webinars

Ajaxifying Portlets
This session will walk you through steps towards ajax-enabling your portlet applications. Jul. 19, 2007

Articles

Inside WSRP
The WSRP protocol allows portals to consume remote portlets running on other portal servers. Learn how the WSRP protocol operates, and how to write portable portlets that can run locally or remotely. Mar. 7, 2005

URLs in WebLogic Portal 8.1: A Tutorial
Discover how to create URLs in WebLogic Portal 8.1. This article shows you how to use URL templates to create URLs to resources, which will work not only in Portal but also with Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). Feb. 7, 2005

Developing JSR 168 Portlets with WebLogic Portal 8.1
JSR 168 (Java Portlet) is a Java specification that aims at establishing portability between portlets and portals. One of the main goals of the specification is to define a set of standard Java APIs for portal and portlet vendors. These APIs will cover areas such as presentation, aggregation, security, and portlet lifecycle. Feb. 10, 2004

Portlet Preferences
Portlet preferences provide the primary means of associating application data with portlets. This feature is key to personalizing portlets based on their usage. In this article, we will look at portlet preferences in detail. Feb. 2, 2004

Weblogs

Ajaxifying Portlets - Part 2: Managed Ajax: In the second post of this series, I would like to describe a new solution introduced recently into WebLogic Portal. This solution will enable implementing Ajax use cases within portlets as well as integrate client side Ajax frameworks like Dojo with WebLogic Portal.
Posted by Subbu Allamaraju (sallamar) on August 30, 2007 at 18:40 PDT | Comments (0)  

Ajaxifying Portlets - Part 1: Unmanaged Ajax: In this two-part series, I would like to describe a couple of strategies for using Ajax within portlets as well as using Ajax toolkits like Dojo with WebLogic Portal.
Posted by Subbu Allamaraju (sallamar) on August 30, 2007 at 18:23 PDT | Comments (1)  

Ajax Frameworks and Heterogeneous UI: One of the questions I hear often is which Ajax framework to choose for building ajax-enabled apps. One way to answer this question is by comparing and contrasting - see which framework offers what kind of features, and compare those among various frameworks. That is an easy approach. But I'm beginning to realize that this is not necessarily the best approach towards selecting a framework. I think a more important criterion is how well a given framework can deal with heterogeneity.
Posted by Subbu Allamaraju (sallamar) on June 25, 2007 at 06:12 PDT | Comments (1)  

Ajaxifying Portlets @J1 2007: Wooh. I had an exciting session on Ajaxifying portlets at JavaOne 2007 yesterday. My session was titled - Portlets and Ajax: Buidling More Dynamic Web Apps. Here is a brief summary of what this session was about.
Posted by Subbu Allamaraju (sallamar) on May 10, 2007 at 10:09 PDT | Comments (0)