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| <TITLE>Portlet API Package description</TITLE> |
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| The javax.portlet package defines the API for portlets. |
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| A portlet is a Java technology based web component, managed by a portlet container, |
| that processes requests and generates dynamic content. Portlets provide a presentation |
| layer to Information Systems. |
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| Portlets generate fragments of markup (e.g. HTML, XHTML, WML). A portal combines markup |
| fragments generated by different portlets into a portal page. |
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| A portlet container manages the lifecyle of portlets. It also provides the required runtime environment. |
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| Portlets are bundled in Portlet Applications as web applications using the WAR file format. |
| A portlet application consists of two deployment descriptors: one to specify |
| the web application resources (web.xml) and one to specify the portlet resources |
| (portlet.xml). |
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| Click |
| <a href="portlet.xml.txt" target="portlet">here</a> |
| for an example of a portlet resources deployment descriptor (portlet.xml). |
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