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A new standard for portlet repositories

18-Oct-2006

Tags: Portals and Content Integration, Implementation, Industry Standards, , Red Hat: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform

The enterprise portal teams at JBoss and Sun have jointly announced the start of a new protocol for communicating with portlet repositories. According to the JBoss blog posting, "the idea for a standard repository protocol came after discussions with Sun over the interoperability of disparate portlet repositories with many portal vendors (as you know, they also have a portlet repository), and how we could offer a standard medium of communication between all players involved." As readers of the Enterprise Portals Report know, most vendors have their very own repositories to store portlets. These can be quite a mixed bag. The Portlet Repository Protocol standard intends to simplify the often underestimated and very time-consuming task of portal administration. If successful, the standard should enable administrators to make use of portlets from a myriad of different repositories from within one portal.

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