Enabling existing portlets for cooperation

You can enable your existing portlets for cooperation. Rational® tools make it easier to develop the various parts of the runtime artifact to enable cooperative portlets, including Click-to-Action menus on JSP pages. The tooling provides support in the following areas:

• Declaring a portlet to be either a source portlet or a target portlet

• Defining data to be published as an output property or received as an input property in the source portlet

• Adding a Click-to-Action menu to the source portlet's JSP page (<c2a:encodeProperty>)

• Adding a trigger action to a source portlet for Basic and Faces portlets

• Generating the data model and operations specification document (WSDL file)

• Consuming the data in the target portlet

• Binding portal actions to the property broker operations

To enable cooperation for existing portlets:

• For a source portlet, see the following topics:

  1. To convert a portlet to a source portlet: Enabling cooperative sources

  2. To add a Click-to-Action menu to a JSP file to publish an output property: Inserting Click-to-Action encodeProperty

  3. To configure the Click-to-Action menu in a JSP file: Editing Click-to-Action encodeProperty

  4. To add a Click-to-Action menu to a JSP file to publish multiple output properties: Inserting Click-to-Action encodeProperties

  5. To configure a Click-to-Action menu in a JSP file to publish multiple output properties: Editing Click-to-Action encodeProperties

  6. To insert a cooperative source trigger: Adding cooperative source trigger action

• For a target portlet, see the following topic:

  1. To convert a portlet to a target portlet: Enabling cooperative targets

Note: WS-I compliance warning messages will be displayed in the Problems view for Click-to-Action-enabled portlets. You can ignore them in the Click-to-Action WSDL resources. Alternatively, to prevent these warning messages from being displayed, you can change the compliance level on the

WS-I compliance preferences:

1. Select

   Window | Preferences | Workbench | Capabilities.

2. Expand

   Web Service Developer, and ensure that

   Web Services Development is selected.

3. Click

   Apply and then OK.

4. Select

   Window | Preferences | Web Services | WS-I BSP Compliance.

5. Set the compliance levels to Ignore compliance, and then click

   Apply and OK.

 

Related concepts

Developing cooperative portlets

Wiring portlets

Faces portlet communication

 

Related reference

Faces direct portlet messaging

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