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Chapter 8. Create portlets with
Dynamic Context Groups
This chapter describes how to create Dynamic Context Groups for WebSphere
Commerce Portal.
Portlets are by nature independent of one another. WebSphere Portal provides
the portlet messaging capability such that portlets within the same portlet
application can communicate with one another. WebSphere Commerce Portal
extends the portlet messaging capability to achieve dynamic business content
synchronization. The design of dynamic context portlet grouping provides a
facility for a user to group portlets whose content is meant to be synchronized
dynamically at runtime. Such a facility does not require code changes for the
participating portlets within a Dynamic Context Group, but instead, Dynamic
Context Grouping is done through the deployment descriptor. This greatly
enhances the ease of regrouping of portlets without the need to restart the portal
server as part of the regrouping exercise.
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