Producer tasks

1. Plan for WSRP

2. Use the portal as a producer:

   1. Preparing security for a producer portal and configuring the WSRP service providers. Preparing security is optional, depending on the setup.

   2. Exchange required information with Consumers of the WSRP services. This exchange includes information about the WSRP interfaces and the configuration of the WSRP services.

   3. Work with WSRP:

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

      2. Withdrawing a portlet. If we withdraw a portlet, Consumers can no longer consume this portlet remotely.

      3. If we do not use message authentication, assign anonymous users the Privileged User role for the provided portlets.

      To perform these tasks, use the Manage Portlets portlet. Alternatively, we can use xmlaccess.sh.

   4. Customize the WSRP configuration of the Producer portal.

Consumer tasks

1. Plan for WSRP

2. Use the portal as a consumer:

   1. Exchange required information for the WSRP communication with the Producer.

      This exchange includes information about the WSRP interfaces and the configuration of the WSRP services.

   2. Configure the WSRP service clients, especially the security aspects.

      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 work with Producer definitions, use the portal administration portlet Web Service Configuration. We can also use the XML configuration interface.

   4. Consuming WSRP services, that is integrating and using the WSRP services in the portal as remote portlets.

      To consume WSRP services, use the portal administration portlet Manage Web Modules. We can also use xmlaccess.sh.

Parent topic: Plan for WSRP