anonymous wrote : Your portlet would have to be packaged along with a servlet 
that handles the AJAX requests. Presumably your rendered JSPs would have to 
have some sort of refresh mechanism that users can click on to trigger an AJAX 
request. 

Doesn't the portal render out a whole page at a time?  How would I construct a 
servlet to give me just a single portlet's response (including decorators)?  I 
wouldn't want to to strip out the extra content in a servlet because I can do 
that with javascript just as well, and thus I could theoretically achieve some 
kind of AJAX-style behavior without writing a servlet.

So how would you implement such a servlet?

BTW - with regards to the separate inter-portlet-communication thread that is 
arising here - keep in mind that you aren't necessarily going to end up with 
JSR168 portlets if you use an API designed specifically to allow you to 
communicate with portlets in JBoss - what you will end up with is JBoss 
Portlets that happen to use the JSR168 API's too.  If you would like to be able 
to deploy any portlets you develop to under JSR 168 portal platforms (say 
Jetspeed 2, BEA Portal, etc...), then using the PortletSession and possibly the 
PortletContext are your 'portable' solutions to inter-portlet-communication.

Regards.



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