How you work with WSRP in the portal

To work with WSRP in the portal, you perform different administrative tasks. Some of these tasks depend on whether you use the portal as a Producer or Consumer portal.

Producer tasks

Producers perform the following tasks when working with WSRP:

1. Planning for WSRP

2. Using the portal as a WSRP Producer:

   1. Preparing security for a WSRP Producer portal. This is optional.

   2. Exchanging the required information with Consumers of your WSRP services.

      This includes information about the WSRP interfaces and the security setup of the portal.

   3. Working with WSRP:

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

      2. Withdrawing a portlet. If you do this, Consumers can no longer consume this portlet remotely.

      To perform these tasks, you use the Manage Portlets portlet.

      You can also use the XML configuration interface.

   4. Customize the WSRP configuration of your Producer portal.

Consumer tasks

Consumer perform the following tasks when working with WSRP:

1. Planning for WSRP

2. Using the portal as a WSRP Consumer:

   1. Exchanging the required information for the WSRP communication with the Producer. This includes information about the WSRP interfaces and the security setup.

   2. Preparing security for using WSRP with the portal. Whether perform this task depends on the Producer portal security setup.

   3. Creating and configuring one or more Producer definitions for the Producer portals from whom you want to consume WSRP services. To do this, use the portal administration portlet Web Service Configuration. You 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 do this, use the portal administration portlet Manage Web Modules. You can also use the XML configuration interface.

Parent topic:

Plan for WSRP

Related concepts

Security considerations for WSRP services
Communication between the Producer and Consumer portals
Cookie support

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