PortletResourceURLFactory: A new generic interface for direct access to a
portlet, a lightweight version of what Portlet 2.0 ResourceURL will provide
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Key: PB-65
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PB-65
Project: Portals Bridges
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: common
Affects Versions: 1.0.2
Environment: Portlet 1.0 supporting portals
Reporter: Ate Douma
Assignee: Ate Douma
Fix For: 1.0.2
Getting web frameworks like Wicket running fully functional in a Portlet 1.0
container is very difficult to realize without some way for direct access to
the portlet.
Features like Ajax (which might need generate new Portlet URLs) or even dynamic
resource generation (like a JCapta image) really need to be served through the
portlet itself.
The soon available Portlet API 2.0 will change all this and make life much
easier for web framework developers.
One feature the Portlet API 2.0 is likely to add is a new ResourceURL, which
will support invoking a portlet directly ...
But, as Portlet API 2.0 isn't available yet, and I need direct portlet access
*now*, the only option available is using portal specific extensions.
For Jetspeed-2, I know how to do this, and AFAIK other (open-source) portals
provide similar extensions.
As I don't want to bind for instance Wicket portlet support hard coded to the
Jetspeed-2 portal, I'm going to define a new interface,
PortletResourceURLFactory, which portals can implement to allow direct portlet
access in a more generic way, just as what we did with the
ServletContextProvider interface.
Note: this interface will be defined obsolete as soon as Portlet API 2.0 is
available and this functionality then is provided natively.
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