Consume portlets in a Consumer portal

After creating a Producer definition, we can proceed to consume the portlets that are provided by that Producer. This way, you integrate them into your Consumer portal as remote portlets. To consume a remote portlet in your Consumer portal, we can use either of the following tools:

• The Manage Web Modules portlet.

• The portal XML configuration interface. For more information about the XML configuration interface, read the appropriate topics.

Notes:

1. On the Consumer side, all remote portlets behave like standard API-compliant portlets, independent of their implementation on the Producer side.

2. When a Producer provides a portlet, only settings that are made in the Configure mode of the portlet are available at the consumed remote portlet. Adding a remote portlet to a page on the Consumer side creates a new instance of the provided portlet on the Producer side. But this instance can be modified only on the Consumer and is not visible on the Producer portal.
3. Customization of the consumed portlets by Consumer portal users can be exported using the XML configuration interface.

Proceed by selecting the appropriate topic from the following links:

• Use the Manage Web Modules portlet to consume portlets from a Producer portal To consume portlets from a Producer portal, we use the Manage Web Modules portlet and consume a web module.
• Use the XML configuration interface to consume portlets from a Producer portal We can use the XML configuration interface (XMLAccess) to consume portlets from a Producer portal.

References:

• The XML configuration interface
• XML configuration interface