Web Content Viewers
Web Content Viewers are portlets that display content from a Web content library as part of a portal page. If your presentation is simple, a single Web Content Viewer can be sufficient, but you can also use multiple Web Content Viewers to aggregate content from different libraries and provide a richer experience for your users. There are two types of viewer that you can use: the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer and the traditional Web Content Viewer.
JSR 286 Web Content Viewer
Based on the Java Portlet Specification 2.0 (JSR 286), the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer is a full-featured viewer that integrates the portal's page structure with information from a Web content library. In addition to leveraging the personalization, presentation, and security benefits afforded by JSR 286, the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer provides additional advantages:
- Web content pages are supported. Because you attach content to a Web content page when you create it, the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer automatically displays that content without requiring configuration when you add the Web Content Viewer to the page.
- The portlet does not create a portlet session for rendering Web content for both anonymous and authenticated portal users.
- Support for portal site analysis is available to measure how frequently content items are visited.
- Performance is improved over the traditional Web Content Viewer.
Traditional Web Content Viewer
Although the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer is recommended for the majority of uses with Web Content Management, the traditional Web Content Viewer is an older portlet that is provided for certain situations where the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer cannot be used. The traditional Web Content Viewer is based on the IBM Portlet API, which has been deprecated.
The traditional Web Content Viewer is used in a remote delivery environment, when you want to install the Web Content Viewer on a different server from the Web content server.
Parent topic:
Web content delivery methods
Related concepts
Work with Web content pages