WSRP in IBM WebSphere Portal v8.5 is now implemented as JAX-WS compliant service providers and service clients. The WSRP implementation in earlier versions of WebSphere Portal was based on the JAX-RPC API and the JAX-RPC web service stack. WSRP in WebSphere Portal v8.5 works with WSRP counterparts in earlier versions of WebSphere Portal.

We can manage web service security and quality of service in the WAS console using policy sets.

WSRP also supports HTTP-cookie-based Single Sign On (SSO). This security mechanism does not require web service configuration, and allows the producer to process both authenticated and unauthenticated requests.

As of Cumulative Fix 5 the consumer markup caching feature offers better performance, allowing WSRP markup caching without enabling the portlet container fragment caching. We can enable and disable markup caching specifically for selected remote portlets or for all remote portlets of a Consumer portal.

The consumer provides parameters for defining two-phase rendering behavior, WSRP response timeouts, and a limit for the size of file uploads.

As of Cumulative Fix 6, consumer can invalidate the remote session when a user explicitly logs out of the Consumer portal.

Parent topic: WSRP services