Talk:Portlet

I disagree that portlets are only there for displaying relevant information. Portlets can be used as reusable web application doing a whole lot more than just displaying information.

I agree with the prevous remark. Portlets, as defined in JSR168, are "pluggable user interface components that provide a presentation layer to information systems" (Abdelnur and Hepper 2003). Furthermore, WSRP and JSR168 are not actually the same thing. JSR168 is a Java-based portlet standard, while WSRP is a language independent standard which tries to "leverage" several portlet standards as is explained in section 3.1 of the WSRP Specification. ......................................................................................................... --Roy 15:16, 22 May 2006 (UTC) asdfafd

Please some info or reference for JSR-301 (JSF-bridge for portlets) specs. Thx! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.206.41.100 (talk) 14:36, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Real-world examples of Portlets
It would be very useful on any Wiki entry for standards to point to real-world examples of an implementation and use of the standard being described. I believe iGoogle (www.iGoogle.com) is not an example of the JSR168 standard, but does anyone know of sites which are?bnbnbn

I have not found any relevant site based on jsr 168 or jsr 286. The only page I found was a minor German government site for environment www.portalu.de ("u" for "umwelt" = german for "environment") 88.79.134.74 (talk) 22:06, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia for the initiated only?
The definition given:

<"pluggable user interface components that are managed    and displayed in a web portal.">

...is hardly enlightening or satisfactory for the uninitiated, who are left in the same state of doubt or ignorance or wonder. This is a common flaw of specialists in every profession, the inability to talk in a clear language, devoid of buzzwords, and understandable to most if not all. In this case, the writer is addressing a specialized public, and that is not what WiKipedia (or any other Encyclopedia, for that matter) is supposed to be for. OR IS IT? --AVM (talk) 21:16, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

As someone who is trying to break into java programming, I agree with you AVM, specialist should communicate in clearer language. I came across an interesting discussion about pluggability and in application called SocialText:

"Pluggability implies that pieces of code and configuration can be optional, added and removed as required. If, for example, we made it so any subclass of Socialtext::Plugin was optional and installable as a separate package, the default install and dependencies of Socialtext would drop considerably. Plugins have a stable interface..."

on

http://www.eu.socialtext.net/open/index.cgi?gvh_pluggability

Maybe this could be developed into an article on pluggability. In my experience, buzzwords can be used by specialists to deliberately exclude non-specialists from their conversations and sometimes to hide a specialists lack of knowledge ;-) Wikimsd (talk) 14:03, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Irrelevance & critisicm
This article should be marked as non-relevant. "Portlets" are nothing else than HTML or XML components, therefore they're no real or usable thing. The hole "portlet" concept is totally irrelevant. Actually, "portlets" today are rather interfaces like REST, JSON/XML, aso. Therefore I'm really missing the "critisism" section in this article. Even the name "portlet" is crap. --178.197.228.13 (talk) 15:59, 8 April 2014 (UTC) Update: Maybe they just meant iframes with "portlets", but the Java developers didn't know HTML and iframes, so they invented the word "portlet"... --178.197.228.13 (talk) 16:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I must admit that sadely there exists no term to use for these modular HTML components. Because the term HTML Components is already (ob)used by Microsoft, and the terms "Modular programming" and "Component-based software engineering" are only about the way to program something, not how to design the program itself. So that's probably why the Java geeks came up with this unfortunate term "portlet", although it's actually a concept and has nothing to do with a programming language. Therefore I'd like to know what these "portlets" are called in PHP or Ruby...and another answer should adress the question why a specification like https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=286 is needed for a HTML element that provides a service. Maybe for the guys who don't know "include" and "iframes"? --178.197.228.13 (talk) 16:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Should WML really be redirected to Wiki markup
Perhaps it should be to Wireless markup language instead? 193.10.107.142 (talk) 14:11, 16 January 2018 (UTC)