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Use-Cases for Portlets

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Summary: Portlets define a streamlined way to aggregate content from several sources into a single Web application. In this interview with Artima, Brian Chan, chief architect of open-source portlet vendor Liferay, describes the use-cases for portlets.

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Frank

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Use-Cases for Portlets

June 22, 2007 1:25 PM

In this interview with Artima, Brian Chan, chief architect of open-source portlet vendor Liferay, describes the use-cases for portlets:

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2007_brian_chan.html

When do you think it is appropriate to use a portlet framework, and when would you rather build an content aggregation application yourself?