Hi Ridwan, Now I am able to understand your 4th point and the answer is that when user is interaction with a remote portlet, all the URLs in that remote portlet will be pointing to the consumer which in turn will send the request to remote producer. In other words, there will not be any direct call from browser to producer portlet, so producer portal may chose not to expose it its potlet via direct URL. The serveResource feature of WSRP 2.0 allows you to set the mime type for your remote resource.
Now coming to you new concerns: You can start with OpenPortal Portlet Container and WSRP projects on tomcat and if it serves all your requirements, you can stick to it...but if you want more features provided by a portal server, you will have to deploy OpenPortal on Glassfish as tomcat is not a supported container for OpenPortal. For publishing your portlet as remote portlet, you don't need to do any change...atleast in case of OpenPortal portlet container & WSRP projects. I am not aware of others. Please let me know if you have any question. Regards Manish. --- On Mon, 8/11/08, Ridwan Habbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Ridwan Habbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Concerns about WSRP To: [email protected] Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 1:47 AM #yiv2006507513 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv2006507513 { FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;} Hello Manish, Thanks for your detailed explanation. you have the right not to understand the forth point, I don't know why i mix words together sometimes. Threre you are the correction: It seems that the portal server that hosts the portlet should also be exposed for end-user interactions since WSRP only manage markup fragments (html my case), but usually downloads are not done through portal! In other words, usually when you call a url from a portal you call something like http://portal_ip_address:portal_port/portal_app_name and this would each portlet to generate markup fragments, probably html, and portal would aggregate them as one html page. However when we want to perform downloads, either for files generated dynamically such as exporting data to excel, or static data like images, we call a different pattern of urls, it would be actually such http://portlet_ip_address:portlet_port/portlet_app_name (ofcourse portlet_ip could be portal_ip, similarly to the port) and this would call a servlet with http request & response. As you know this is due to the need to change the MIME type of the response from html to some binary. Now, this won't be a problem sine end-user interacts directly with the server that hosts both portlet and the portal. In WSRP situation, the portlet won't be on the same server the end-user interacts. So the question should the host server that contains portlet exposed via WSRP, should that server be exposed for network access by end user? cause i guess the user that way calls portlet directly not through portal. Now, plz let me ask you for further assistance, I see that https://portal.dev.java.net/ is the parent project of https://wsrp.dev.java.net and project https://portlet-container.dev.java.net so what i understand is that https://portal.dev.java.net/ a whole portal project, and the other two projects are just portlet container, and the second is to produce and consume portlets via WSRP. so in case I would like to use the whole portal i would use https://portal.dev.java.net/ and all it's sub-projects. However if my ultimate goal is merely to expose some portlets deployed on tomcat to be available to WebSphere via WSRP, then i just need to use https://portlet-container.dev.java.net to host portlet, and https://wsrp.dev.java.net to expose my portlet through WSRP. Final question, should i do any change my portlet code, or the portlet would stay the same whether it's accessed normally (by the hosting portal) or by WSRP. I guess i just need to add some glue code for the WSRP producer. Sorry this a long email, but i would be thankful to get a response from you. Others are of-course invited. :) Regards Ridwan Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:04:43 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Concerns about WSRP To: [email protected] Hi Ridwan, There are free alternate available..for example, WSRP implementation at https://wsrp.dev.java.net. You can try it. Here are answers to your concerns: 1. Your assumption that you need portal server at both producer and consumer end is not fully correct. At producer side, you need only producer webservice implementation. This webservice can itself provide run time environment to your portlets or it may use any other implementation of Portlet runtime (also called portlet container). In case of above WSRP implementation, this run time is provided by another project at https://portlet-container.dev.java.net. At consumer end, you need portal or some sort of application which can assemple markup returned by different portlets on a single page. 2. Most of the comercial offerings of Portal servers and few open source portal server provides wsrp consumer and producer implementation. Yes, you can deploy above mentined WSRP implementation on tomcat and publish your portles using producer webservice. 3. Yes, whever you mentined in point 3 is possible but I am not aware of Gridsphere. 4. I am not able to understnad your 4th concern. Please let me know if I am not clear on above. Regards' Manish. --- On Sun, 8/10/08, Ridwan Habbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Ridwan Habbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Concerns about WSRP To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 5:25 AM #yiv2006507513 .ExternalClass #EC_yiv973760219 .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} #yiv2006507513 .ExternalClass #EC_yiv973760219 {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} Hi, I'm new to WSRP. The purpose made me interested in WSRP is that i am developing a portlet that will get deployed on WebSphere portal server. Since the license of WebSphere portal is expensive i would try to deploy the portlet on a cheap or maybe free web application, and then expose my portlet as WSRP for my WebSphere portal server. That way the logic that consume recourses would not be on WebSphere portal that has an expensive license.I would like some one to confirm these tiny questions before i spend much time on doing it. Based on my reading so far it seems that i do need portals on both sides, Producer, as well as Consumer! is that right? WSRP producer and WSRP consumer seems to be built-in in portals. so I wonder if i can deploy my portlet on say tomcat, and that tomcat has producer, so i can publish my portlet as WSRP using that producer. since WSRP is a webservice, so if i have to use portals on both sides, i can deploy my portlet on say Gridsphere using tomcat and then publish it as WSRP and then consume it from the WebSphere portal server. It seems that the portal server that hosts the portlet should also be exposed for end-user interactions since WSRP only manage markup fragments (html my case), but usually downloads and not done throw portal! Could u please answer my 4 concerns i mentioned above? thanks in advanceRidwan Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. Your PC, mobile phone, and online services work together like never before. See how Windows® fits your life
