19.1. Portlet services
Portlet services provide commonly used functions to portlets. Portlet services can be used with both IBM portlets and JSR 168 portlets. IBM portlets access the service by using PortletContext.getService. JSR 168 portlets must use a JNDI lookup to access the service. Portlet services can only be invoked from portlets, not themes or skins.
Portlet service interfaces are different for the two APIs. You can, however, write a portlet service implementation you can use for both APIs. You can write your own portlet service and register it in the portal, so that all portlets can use it.
19.1.1. ContentAccessService
ContentAccessService (CAS) provides portlets with access to remote systems and content from remote URLs. When developing ...
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