Task overview: Managing portlets

Use this task to manage deployed portlet applications.

Before beginning this task, have a portlet application installed. See Install enterprise application files for additional information.

We can complete the following steps to manage portlets.

 

• Render a portlet.

  • Access a single portlet using Portlet URL addressability.

  • Access multiple portlets using Portlet aggregation using JSPs.

  • Access portlets using Remote request dispatcher.

• Change the location of Portlet preferences.

  By default, portlet preferences for each portlet window are stored in a cookie. However, we can change the location of where to store portlet preferences.

• Disable URL addressability. By default, we can access a portlet through an URL, however, we can disable this feature.
• Enable portlet fragment caching. Portlet fragment caching is disabled by default.

Portlets
Portlet container
Portlet container settings
Portlet aggregation using JSPs
Portlet URL addressability
Portlet preferences
Example: Set the extended portlet deployment descriptor to disable PortletServingServlet
Converting portlet fragments to an HTML document
Portlet container custom properties
Portlet and PortletApplication MBeans
Portlet URL security