I have seen some discussions floating about lately regarding AJAX and J2 and I have also checked out the documentation at:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/guides/guide-ajax-api.html However, my specific use case falls outside of portal/portlet administration. What I am looking to do is to use AJAX to fetch data in XML format from a service within my application to include on the fly within portlet content for a variety of purposes. I am wondering if the AJAX capabilities of J2 can assist with this. At the moment, I believe the answer is more or less no (unless the XML comes from the output of a portlet rendering). At this point, my approach will be to use a servlet within my application and by-pass the the portal. The servlet (or some part of the webapp outside of the realm of portlets) will then have to manage security for the requests for the data. This should be simple enough by using SSO. And this is all fine, I really don't mind doing it this way. However, I feel that it would be very useful to be able to provide access to such a service through the portal (ie via the Ajax API) and be able to use the same kind of security constraints that are commonly placed on pages and fragments (plus then SSO wouldn't be required). My service exists only to provide data to UI interfaces rendered by portlets. Thus, defining a portlet to deliver it via the rendering of XML content and then placing it in a hidden PSML page for that sole purpose seems like overkill. Perhaps there exists a simple way to accomplish this through Jetspeed that I am unaware of. Otherwise, I suppose I am leaving this as more of a suggestion perhaps for future functionality. If there are others that have similar requirements, then it may be worth creating a JIRA entry... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
