Hi Ridwan, There are free alternate available..for example, WSRP implementation at https://wsrp.dev.java.net. You can try it. Here are answers to your concerns:
1. Your assumption that you need portal server at both producer and consumer end is not fully correct. At producer side, you need only producer webservice implementation. This webservice can itself provide run time environment to your portlets or it may use any other implementation of Portlet runtime (also called portlet container). In case of above WSRP implementation, this run time is provided by another project at https://portlet-container.dev.java.net. At consumer end, you need portal or some sort of application which can assemple markup returned by different portlets on a single page. 2. Most of the comercial offerings of Portal servers and few open source portal server provides wsrp consumer and producer implementation. Yes, you can deploy above mentined WSRP implementation on tomcat and publish your portles using producer webservice. 3. Yes, whever you mentined in point 3 is possible but I am not aware of Gridsphere. 4. I am not able to understnad your 4th concern. Please let me know if I am not clear on above. Regards' Manish. --- On Sun, 8/10/08, Ridwan Habbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Ridwan Habbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Concerns about WSRP To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 5:25 AM #yiv973760219 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv973760219 { FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;} Hi, I'm new to WSRP. The purpose made me interested in WSRP is that i am developing a portlet that will get deployed on WebSphere portal server. Since the license of WebSphere portal is expensive i would try to deploy the portlet on a cheap or maybe free web application, and then expose my portlet as WSRP for my WebSphere portal server. That way the logic that consume recourses would not be on WebSphere portal that has an expensive license.I would like some one to confirm these tiny questions before i spend much time on doing it. Based on my reading so far it seems that i do need portals on both sides, Producer, as well as Consumer! is that right? WSRP producer and WSRP consumer seems to be built-in in portals. so I wonder if i can deploy my portlet on say tomcat, and that tomcat has producer, so i can publish my portlet as WSRP using that producer. since WSRP is a webservice, so if i have to use portals on both sides, i can deploy my portlet on say Gridsphere using tomcat and then publish it as WSRP and then consume it from the WebSphere portal server. It seems that the portal server that hosts the portlet should also be exposed for end-user interactions since WSRP only manage markup fragments (html my case), but usually downloads and not done throw portal! Could u please answer my 4 concerns i mentioned above? thanks in advanceRidwan Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here.
