Work with WSRP in the portal

To work with WSRP in the portal, you perform different administrative tasks. Some of these tasks depend on whether we use the portal as a Producer or Consumer portal.

Producer tasks

Producers perform the following tasks when working with WSRP:

1. Plan for WSRP

2. Use the portal as a WSRP Producer:

   1. Preparing security for a WSRP Producer portal. This is optional.

   2. Exchanging the required information with Consumers of the WSRP services. This includes information about the WSRP interfaces and the security setup of the portal.

   3. Work with WSRP:

      1. Provide the local portlets in the Producer portal as WSRP services so that Consumer portals can consume and invoke them as remote portlets.

      2. Withdrawing a portlet. If you do this, Consumers can no longer consume this portlet remotely.

      3. If you do not use WS-Security or SSL authentication, you should assign anonymous users the Privileged User role for the provided portlets.
      To perform these tasks, we use the Manage Portlets portlet. Alternatively, we can use xmlaccess.sh.

   4. Customize the WSRP configuration of the Producer portal.

Consumer tasks

Consumer perform the following tasks when working with WSRP:

1. Plan for WSRP

2. Use the portal as a WSRP Consumer:

   1. Exchanging the required information for the WSRP communication with the Producer. This includes information about the WSRP interfaces and the security setup.

   2. Preparing security for using WSRP with the portal. Whether perform this task depends on the Producer portal security setup.

   3. Create one or more Producer definitions for the Producer portals from whom to consume WSRP services. To do this, use the portal administration portlet Web Service Configuration. We can also use xmlaccess.sh.

   4. Consuming WSRP serviceso that is integrating and using the WSRP services in the portal as remote portlets. To do this, use the portal administration portlet Manage Web Modules. We can also use xmlaccess.sh.

Parent: Plan for WSRP
Related:
Security considerations for WSRP services
Communication between Producer and Consumer portals
Cookie support