Enabling existing portlets for cooperation

You can enable your existing portlets for cooperation. Rational Developer makes it easier to develop the various parts of the run-time artifact to enable Click-to-Action portlets. The tooling provides support in the following areas:

1. Declaring a portlet to be either a source portlet or a target portlet

2. Inserting and defining data to be published in the source portlet's JSP page (<c2a:encodeProperty>)

3. Generating the data model and operations specification document (WSDL file)

4. Consuming the data in the target portlet

5. Binding portal actions to the operations

To enable cooperation for existing portlets:

• For a source portlet, see the following topics:

  To convert a portlet to a source portlet:	Enabling cooperative sources
  To declare data to publish to a JSP file:	Inserting Click-to-Action encodeProperty
  To edit the data to be published to a JSP file:	Editing Click-to-Action encodeProperty
  To include an output property in a JSP file:	Inserting Click-to-Action encodeProperties
  To edit an output properties in a JSP file:	Editing Click-to-Action encodeProperties

• For a target portlet, see the following topic:

  To convert a portlet to a target portlet:

  Enabling cooperative targets

Note: WS-I compliance warning messages will be displayed in the Problems view for Click-to-Action-enabled portlets. You can ignore them in the Click-to-Action WSDL resources. Alternatively, to prevent these warning messages from being displayed, you can change the compliance level on the WS-I compliance preferences:

1. Select Window > Preferences > Workbench > Capabilities.

2. Expand Web Service Developer, and ensure that Web Services Development is selected.

3. Click Apply and then OK.

4. Select Window > Preferences > Web Services > WS-I Compliance.

5. Set the compliance levels to Ignore compliance, and then click Apply and OK.

 

Related concepts

Developing cooperative portlets