Consuming portlets in a Consumer portal
After you create a Producer definition, you can proceed to consume the portlets that are provided by that Producer. This way, you integrate them into your Consumer portal as remote portlets.
To consume a remote portlet in your Consumer portal, you can use either of the following tools:
- The Manage Web Modules portlet.
- The portal XML configuration interface. For more information about the XML configuration interface, read the appropriate topics.
Notes
- On the Consumer side, all remote portlets behave like standard API-compliant portlets, independent of their implementation on the Producer side.
- When a Producer provides a portlet, only settings that are made in the Configure mode of the portlet are available at the consumed remote portlet. Adding a remote portlet to a page on the Consumer side creates a new instance of the provided portlet on the Producer side. But this instance can be modified only on the Consumer and is not visible on the Producer portal.
- Customization of the consumed portlets by Consumer portal users can be exported by using the XML configuration interface.