Use WSRP services
Overview
IBM WebSphere Portal supports the WSRP standard. By using this standard, portals can provide portlets, applications, and content as WSRP services, and other portals can integrate the WSRP services as remote portlets for their users.The WSRP standard and specification is provided by OASIS. It defines a Web service communication interface for interactive presentation-oriented Web services. This standard simplifies the integration of remote portlets, applications, and content into portals. Producers and Consumers use this interface for providing and consuming the Web services. WSRP allows users to
- Producers can provide portlets as presentation-oriented WSRP services and make them available to Consumers who want to use these services.
- Consumers can select from a rich choice of available Web services and integrate them into their portal.
- Users can access the services and work and interact with them just like they do with local portlets.
Using WSRP has the following benefits:
- WSRP allows content and application providers to provide their services in a consumable form to organizations that run portals.
- Web services that implement WSRP plug in to all WSRP-compliant portals without requiring any service-specific adapters. A single, service-independent adapter on the portal side is sufficient to integrate any WSRP services.
- No programming is required. Portal administrators no longer have to write interface code to adapt the WSRP services for their portal.
- Presentation-oriented services, as standardized by WSRP, allow Producer portals to deliver the requested data and their presentation to the Consumer portal. Previously, they delivered the data only, and the portal administrators had to provide the logic for how to present the data.
- Portal administrators do not have to keep the WSRP services code locally on their storage devices.
- The WSRP services appear and operate to portal users exactly like local portlets.
The information given in this WSRP section assumes that we are already familiar with WebSphere Portal and with the WSRP specification. If you want more detailed information about the OASIS WSRP specification, refer to the OASIS WSRP Standard Web site.
Before you start working with WSRP in the portal, read the relevant topics about WSRP carefully, including the topics about Producers or Consumers, depending on how to use WSRP, as well as the topics about planning, security considerations, and hints and tips for using WSRP with the portal.
WSRP Producers and Consumers
- Learn about WSRP
- Plan for WSRP
- Use the portal as a WSRP Producer
- Use the portal as a WSRP Consumer
- Reference for using WSRP with the portal
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