Moving from Servlets to portlets

[Udayan Kumar]

Hi All,

I read in one of tutorials pertaining to portal & portlets something like this
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Because the portlets are written as components, they can be cleanly written and tested. Applications which currently use many servlet includes might be more cleanly written as portlet applications
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I am just curious to figure out what are the cases when using portlets makes more sense over plain servlet approach.


Regards,

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

They key time to write a portlet is when you are running on a portal server.

A portal provides a number of great features, including view pluggability in the form of portlets, design elements factored out into elements such as themes and skins, not to mention easy facilities for allowing a user to customize and personalize a site.

Choosing to use a portal or not is the real question. When that decision is made, the developer really isn't left with a choice.

-Cameron McKenzie