Building Portals with the Java Portlet API

How do developers bring existing applications into a portal? How do developers integrate content management systems and search engines with a portal? And how do developers get started with the Portlet API? Jeff Linwood and Dave Minter show you how to solve these real problems in Building Portals with the Java Portlet API.

This book describes the new Java portlet API, including security, portlet life cycles, and portlet interaction with servlets and JSP. The examples will work on any portal that complies with the JSR-168 portlet API. Several example portlets are developed to give you hands-on portlet experience. You’ll even learn how to port existing servlet and JSP applications into a new portal environment.

The authors also discuss Single Sign-On (SSO) using Kerberos and the GSS-API, syndicating content with RSS, and integrating a charting solution with JFreeChart. Other topics covered are the open-source Apache Jakarta Lucene search engine, personalization, portlet configuration, portlet preferences, and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP). XDoclet is also used throughout portions of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Portals and Portlets
2. Portlet Basics
3. The Portlet Life Cycle
4. Portlet Concepts
5. Using Servlets and JavaServer Pages with Portlets
6. Packaging and Deployment Descriptors
7. Portal and Portlet Configuration
8. Security and Single Sign-On
9. RSS and Syndication
10. Integrating the Lucene Search Engine
11. Personalization and User Attributes
12. Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Application Syndication
13. Exposing an Existing Application As a Portlet
14. Charting with JFreeChart
15. Content Management Systems