Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Using the XML configuration interface to consume WSRP services from a Producer portal

You can use the XML configuration interface to consume WSRP services from a Producer portal.

To consume a WSRP service by using the XML configuration interface, specify the handle of the remote portlet and the Producer portal that provides the remote portlet. Specify the information by using the attributes remotehandle and wsrp-producerref with the servlet subtag. Both values are required to use the remote portlet. The remotehandle is defined by the owner of the Producer portal. The owner of the Producer portal provides the handle to you by appropriate means, such as fax, phone, or e-Mail. If you cannot access this information, use external tools such as the Apache WSRP Open Source implementation to find out which WSRP services the Producer has to offer.

Producers with an IBM WebSphere Portal Express Producer can obtain this information by exporting all provided portlets on their Producer portal by using the XML configuration interface. For details refer to Group IDs and handles of portlets.

After successful integration, the remote portlets are available in the portal administration. They are handled in the same manner as local portlets.

1. You can consume a WSRP service only if you work online and can access the Producer's WSDL document.
2. The WSRP implementation of the portal does not yet make use of public WSRP services registries, such as UDDI, to discover and consume WSRP services. Instead, it uses the discovery mechanism of WSRP services that is defined in the WSRP standard to obtain a list and descriptions of the WSRP services that a certain Producer provides.
3. An integrated portlet is always treated as a standard API compliant portlet.

To delete integrated remote portlets, use the Manage Web Modules portlet.

• Creating a Producer definition and consuming a WSRP service by a single XML script
  You can use a single XML script to create a Producer definition and then consume WSRP services from that same Producer.