Portlet development reference

View important information and concepts related to portlet development.

Related information

• Standard portlet API

• IBM Portlet API

• Markup guidelines

  View the guidelines for using HTML, WML, and cHTML markup in your portlet JSPs to provide a consistent, clean, and complete user interface.

• Accessing the portlet session on the anonymous page

  View some pointers on handling portlet sessions in situations where portlets are placed on pages that do not require authentication.

• Deployment descriptors

• IBM portlet DTD tag reference

  Learn about the elements in the portlet deployment descriptor for the IBM Portlet API.

• JSP tags for standard portlets

  The standard portlet API defines several tags that can be used in portlet JSPs to get access to the portlet request and response and to generate URLs.

• JSP tags for IBM portlets

  Learn about the tags used by JSPs for IBM portlets. The IBM portlet API is deprecated. For new development work, use the Standard portlet API.

• Drag and drop JSP tags

  Learn about the JSP tags and attributes for the drag and drop feature.

• Handling and visibility of request parameters in portlets

  Learn how the standard portlets and IBM portlets set request parameters for requests targeted to portlets. Acquire an understanding of the parameter visibility for standard portlets, IBM portlets, and the included JSPs or servlets.

• Detailed descriptions of the Struts WML tags

  Learn about the WML tags used by the portlets within the Struts Application Framework.

• Application extension registry

  WebSphere Portal provides an application extension registry which is equivalent to the application extension registry bundled with IBM WAS v6.1. This registry allows any J2EE compliant application to define extension points for other applications to use, or to plug in to other extensible applications.

  The application extension registry uses the Eclipse plug-in descriptor format and APIs as the standard extensibility mechanism for WebSphere applications.

  For more information about the application extension registry, see the related information.

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Develop portlets

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