Application reuse through portal frameworks

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Educational institutions, enterprises and industry are increasingly adopting portal frameworks, as gateways and the means to interact with their customers. The dynamic components that make up a portal, known as portlets, either use proprietary interfaces to interact with container that controls them, or more commonly today, the standardised JSR-168 interface. Currently, however, portal frameworks impose a number of constraints and limitations on the integration of legacy applications. This typically means that significant effort is needed to embed an application into a portal, and results in the need to fork the source tree of the application for the purposes of integration. This paper reports on an investigation that is studying the means to utilise existing Web applications through portlets via bridging technologies. We discuss the capabilities of these technologies and detail our work with the PHP-JavaBridge and PortletBridge-portlet, while demonstrating how they can be used with a number of standard PHP applications.

Authors: Lakhoo, R; Baker, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: National e-Science Centre
• Host title: Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006
• Pages: 510-517
• Publication date: 2006-09-01
• Acceptance date: 2006-05-08
• Event title: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006
• Event location: Nottingham, UK
• Event start date: 2006-09-18
• Event end date: 2006-09-21
• ISBN: 0955398800
• Language: English