Portlets
Portlet Portlets are pluggable user interface components that are managed and displayed in a web portal . Portlets produce fragments of markup code that are aggregated into a portal page. Typically, following the desktop metaphor , a portal page is displayed as a collection of non-overlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet. Hence a portlet (or collection of portlets) resembles a web-based application that is hosted in a portal. Some examples of portlet applications are email , weather reports, discussion forums , and news . Portlet standards are intended to enable software developers to create portlets that can be plugged in to any portal supporting the standards. Portlet standards The purpose of the Web Services for Remote Portlets protocol is to provide a web services standard that allows for the " plug-n-play " of remote running portlets from disparate sources. Many sites allow registered users to personalize their view of the website by...