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6.3 Writing a portlet
In this section we make an assumption that the reader has good knowledge about portlet
development. The goal is not to demonstrate the end-to-end process of portlet creation,
rather, it is to give an overview of the process flow of information in the portlet.
To begin writing a portlet, you need an application development tool such as WebSphere
Studio Application Developer (WSAD) or the Rational Application Developer (RAD). For this
example we used RAD, and the steps identified below will have a RAD context.
When create a new project ...