September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
22h 55m
English
This chapter covers
In earlier chapters, you learned about the portlet lifecycle and core concepts of the Java portlet technology. You developed the Book Catalog portlet by extending the GenericPortlet class and writing action and render methods containing navigation and validation logic, along with action processing and content generation logic. The portlet class acted as a controller, responsible for data validation, dispatching requests to appropriate JSPs, preparing data for the JSP pages, and encapsulating calls to business services.
As more and more features are added to a portlet, ...