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A Common API for Accessing Portlet Repositories

Posted by Scott Delap on Oct 13, 2006 03:20 PM

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This week Roy Russo announced the creation of the Portlet Repository Protocol (PRP) which seeks to create a common web service API that can be used to communicate with portlet repositories. This would allow any portal vendor to browser repositories and download/update portlets like developers currently do when browsing/installing/updating plugins for their IDE of choice.

Current participants include:

The protocol will work as follows:

  • A client portal communicates, via the PRP, to one or many portlet repositories.
  • The meta-data returned, should be displayed in human-readable format to the end-user/portal-administrator.
  • The end-user/portal-administrator can then choose to either install or update existing deployed portlets from one or many repositories.
  • Installaton/Updating functions are implementation details left up to the specific portal vendor.

For more on portlets see InfoQ's past coverage of the business case for Portlets.

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Ummm by Noah Campbell Posted Oct 16, 2006 1:15 PM

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    Ummm

    Oct 16, 2006 1:15 PM by Noah Campbell

    ...it's called UDDI. Why reinvent the wheel?

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