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Portlets in Action
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Portlets in Action

by Ashish Sarin
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
640 pages
22h 55m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 11. Communicating with other portlets

This chapter covers

  • Inter-portlet communication using portlet sessions
  • Public render parameters
  • Portlet events
  • Portlet event support in Spring Portlet MVC
  • Pros and cons of different approaches to inter-portlet communication

In 2003, when Portlet 1.0 (JSR 168) was released, it didn’t define support for communication between portlets. The only way to achieve inter-portlet communication in the Portlet 1.0 days was by using PortletSession, which required communicating portlets to reside in the same portlet application. If you wanted a third-party portlet to communicate with your custom portlet, you had to package them as part of a single portlet application.

The lack of inter-portlet communication ...

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