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

Using your portal as a WSRP Producer

These topics describe all the tasks that you perform when you use your portal to provide WSRP services as a WSRP Producer portal.

1. Accessing the Producer WSDL
   As a Producer you need to provide the URL for the Producer WSDL document to the Consumer. The basic WSDL document is available under the following URL: http://producer_portal_host:producer_port/wp_contextRoot/wsdl/wsrp_service.wsdl.
2. Preparing security for a WSRP Producer portal
   To provide security for the WSRP services that you provide with your Producer portal, you use authentication by either WS-Security token or Secure Socket Layer. If you do this, you also need to configure Portal Access Control.
3. Information that the Producer exchanges with the Consumer
   As a WSRP Producer you have to provide information to Consumers of your WSRP services so that they can prepare for consuming them as remote portlets. Depending on the configuration, you might also need information from the Consumer.
4. Providing WSRP services as a Producer
   After you have prepared your portal as a Producer portal, you can provide your portlets as WSRP services. This makes them available to Consumers. They can integrate them into their Consumer portals and use them as remote portlets. You can also withdraw portlets from WSRP service. This cancels the services provided by the portlets. Consumer portals can then no longer use them.
5. Exporting customized WSRP portlet instances by using the XML configuration interface
   If Consumers of provided portlets customize the portlets, then the Producer can export the customized portlet instances by using the XML configuration interface.
6. Customizing the WSRP configuration of your Producer portal
   You can customize some aspects of you WSRP Producer portal.