Welcome to the Portlet Community

If J2EE based portals, JSR 168 or WSRP mean anything to you, you have come to the right place. This is a gathering of developers and technical experts working on Portals and related technologies. Here you will find open source projects, articles, tips, news, product announcements, blogs and FAQs. This community is also dedicated to creating a repository of open source and free JSR 168 compliant portlets that can be used on any J2EE portal server available in the market today. This is a great place to obtain portlets, learn, discuss, share knowledge and publicize your work.

We welcome you to participate.
And we have a lot of interesting stuff coming up. So stay tuned !!

Are you working on JSR 168 or WSRP and interested in being featured in the Company Spotlight on this page? It requires no obligations and is completely free. Write to us for more details.

PORTIONS - a framework for creating portlets
Check out the newly linked PORTIONS project. PORTIONS or PORTlet actIONS is a framework that can be used to create JSR-168 portlets in a manner similar to the development of Web applications with Struts.

Guidelines for Writing JSR-168 Portlets

First Public Draft of Portlet 2.0 Spec Available

  (Aug 07, 2006)

Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 2.0 Draft Available

  (Aug 07, 2006)

Open Source Portlet Repository Project on java.net - Check it out now !
This project will act as the workspace for open source developers to develop a variety of JSR168 compliant open source portlets. It will include portlets for Enterprise Integrations, Web 2.0 technologies, Collaboration, and much more. For more info visit the Portlet Respository Project Page
  (May 24, 2006)

Sun Portal goes Open Source
"This announcement represents the next phase of open sourcing Sun's Java software portfolio," said Rich Green, executive vice president, Software at Sun. Check out the rest of the news: "Sun Advances Open Source Strategy at JavaOne"
  (May 24, 2006)

Xmlportlet graduated from the Portlet Incubator! - Check it out now !
The xmlportlet provides a base portlet to serve as a simple mechanism for transforming XML data into the view for your portlet application. This base portlet is JSR-168 compliant, and will relieve you from developing the basic boilerplate logic needed to transform XML using XSLT into HTML. Some useful applications include RSS readers and embedded REST or SOAP-based applications. To know more, visit the xmlportlet project
  (Apr 24, 2006)

Clustering JSR-168 Portlet Applications in Tomcat

JSR168 support with WSRP- good or bad?

What Is a Portlet, Part 2

Designing A Successful Portal Deployment