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WSRP Really Works!

How two competing portal server products can integrate with one another
By Matt Silver
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March 27, 2008 11:00 AM EDT
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A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used to allow portlets to be decoupled from a portal. It allows portlets, which are deployed to remote portal servers, to be aggregated at runtime into a unified portal page by a local portal server. The remote portal server's portlets are wrapped as Web Services. The output of a Web Service operation is an HTML fragment used by the portal to render the portlet. Interestingly enough, the portal server software used to manage remote portlets and the portal can differ, provided they both conform to the WSRP specification. In this two-part article, we'll examine this capability and show how two competing portal server products, namely WebSphere Portal and WebLogic Portal, can integrate with one another. Using WSRP is one step forward to building a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

In this first article, we'll introduce portlet, WSRP, and related Java Specification Requests (JSR). From there, we'll explore the consumption of a WebSphere portlet by WebLogic Portal. In the second article, we'll examine the reverse scenario with WebSphere Portal consuming and WebLogic operating as the portlet producer.

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Matt Silver is a courseware developer and trainer, currently serving as a senior consultant for Web Age Solutions.

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ambujsaxena 08/26/08 05:57:01 AM EDT

Hi Matt,

I have some problem with retrieving the producer, when i am entering the wsdl of my service(https) which is in WSRP and hosted on IIS, then its saying unable to retrieve producer.
And if i try the same in IE its getting the wsdl, now can you tell me where i am missing the configuration settings in WebLogic9.2.