Customizing empty portlet projects using IBM® portlet API

If you selected

Empty portlet as the portlet type when you created a portlet project, which extends the PortletAdapter class, but contains only minimal code, you can customize the project in the following ways:

  1. Edit the properties of the portlet application as necessary. Refer to Editing portlet applications.

  2. Edit the properties of the portlet as needed. Refer to Editing portlet properties.

  3. Edit the properties of the concrete portlet application as needed. Refer to Editing concrete portlet applications.

  4. Edit the settings of the concrete portlet as needed. Refer to Editing concrete portlets.

  5. Edit the portlet class Java™ code to implement portlet functions such as action handling.

  6. Create a Portlet JSP file. Using JSP's for rendering is recommended, but not mandatory. Refer to Creating portlet JSP files.

For additional details, see Customizing IBM API portlets.

 

Related concepts

Creating portlets and portlet projects

Working with portlet deployment descriptors

 

Related tasks

Customizing IBM API portlets

Creating portlets

 

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