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Portlet development reference

View important information and concepts related to portlet development.

  • Markup guidelines
    View the guidelines for using HTML, WML, and cHTML markup in your portlet JSPs to provide a consistent, clean, and complete user interface.
  • Building .ear and .war files
    You can run a configengine task to build an .ear file or a .war file from an expanded directory.
  • Accessing the portlet session on the anonymous page
    View some pointers on handling portlet sessions in situations where portlets are placed on pages that do not require authentication.
  • Deployment descriptors
    The deployment descriptors define configuration information for the portlets that a portlet application contains.
  • JSP tags for standard portlets
    The standard portlet API defines several tags that can be used in portlet JSPs to access the portlet request and response and to generate URLs.
  • Handling and visibility of request parameters in portlets
    Learn how the standard portlets and HCL DX portlets set request parameters for requests targeted to portlets. Acquire an understanding of the parameter visibility for standard portlets, HCL DX portlets, and the included JSPs or servlets.
  • Detailed descriptions of the Struts WML tags
    Learn about the WML tags used by the portlets within the Struts Application Framework.
  • Application extension registry
    HCL Digital Experience provides an application extension registry which is equivalent to the application extension registry provided by IBM WebSphere Application Server. This registry allows any J2EE compliant application to define extension points for other applications to use, or to plug in to other extensible applications.

HCLSoftware U learning materials

For an introduction and a demo on developing Java portlets, go to Java Portlet Development. To try it out yourself, refer to DX JSP Portlet Development Lab.