Working with the Portal Connector

The Presto Portal Connector is a portlet producer that you can add to your portal applications to create portlet instances for Presto mashups, services and mashlets. This connector is available in these installation packages for different portal servers:

Any portal that is compliant with the JSR-168 Portlet standard.

Oracle Application Server Portal

WebLogic Portal Server

Note: Other early-adopter installation packages may also be available for the Portal Connector. Contact your JackBe sales representative for more information.

See Installing the Presto Portal Connector for installation instructions.

See the Portal Connector Architecture for a basic introduction to the Portal Connector. See Basing Portlets on Presto Services Versus Mashlets for a discussion of the pros and cons of basing portlets on services or on mashlets.

See Creating and Customizing Portlet Instances for Presto Services and Creating and Customizing Portlet Instances for Presto Mashlets for instructions on creating portlet instances for Presto. You can also create mashlets from portlet instances for mashups and services, if you need to make these accessible outside the portal. See Publishing Portlet Instances as Presto Mashlets for instructions.

See Developing Custom Views for Service Portlets for information on creating custom views for mashups and services to provide custom user interfaces for portlet instances. See Configuring Custom Views for Service Portlets for information on configuring custom views and making the available to users.