JBoss Portals and AJAX - Part 2

[ Thanks to Sanjiv Lavangare for this link. ]

"Layouts provide a structure for the creation and serving of portal pages. Layouts aggregate all of the content generated by the portlet, based on region and order, merge them with some additional content provided by the portal, and serve a response back to the user. By providing support for AJAX in the layout, helps facilitate the easy development and implementation of dynamic functionality in pages, with minimal effort.

"Layout markup is implemented using JSP tags. The JBoss JSP tag library, portlet-layout.tld, offers tags that facilitate the implementation of AJAX features in layouts. A JSP layout can be changed to an AJAX-supported page simply by adding references to the tags. Hence, using tags also helps with the easy implementation of features.

"The following is the layout page from the default portal generic layout ${JBOSS_PORTAL_HOME}serverdefaultdeployjboss-portal.sarportal-core.warlayoutsgenericindex.jsp, and shows AJAX support implemented as tags:"

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Offline Ajax Apps With Apache Derby Persistent Data(Sep 24, 2008)
• Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse, Part 2: Building the Ajax Mashup(Aug 21, 2008)
• Monitor SLAs With Nagios and Ajax(Aug 21, 2008)
• How to Create an Ajax Autocomplete Text Field: Part 1(Aug 17, 2008)
• Develop AJAX Applications Like the Pros, Part 3(Aug 15, 2008)
• Safer Ajax Web Form Validation With DOM and JSP(Aug 05, 2008)
• Why Did Javascript/AJAX Mop the Floor With Java, Flash and Silverlight?(Aug 05, 2008)
• Dojo Stabilizes Open Source Ajax Toolkit(Apr 03, 2008)