CHAPTER 7 Communicating Between Portlets

The ability to send information from one portlet to another adds considerable flexibility to your portlet applications, in both the way they are designed and in the way they are used. This chapter outlines the numerous ways that you can implement inter-portlet communication using WebSphere Portlet Factory (WPF). By the end of this chapter, you will understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and will have built a library loans portlet application to demonstrate them.

Each of the models in this chapter is available for download from ibmpressbooks.com/title/9780137134465 under the Chapter 7 folder (instructions for copying these files into your project are included in a readme.txt file in the ...

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