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Presentation level integration now becomes an important and fast growing trend in enterprise computing and portals are the mainstream to realize it. However, there is not yet a definitive mechanism to achieve interoperability between the basic components of a portal i.e. portlets, whereby HTML data flows smoothly from one portlet to a neighboring one. This paper proposes an HTML fragments based approach to achieve portlet interoperability. Fragments are a block of HTML elements, which are generated by portlets and are used to aggregate a portal page. We first construct a presentation component, which is named as ShadowComponent, for each portlet involved in a portlet interoperation using its fragments, then define a data flow process between ShadowComponents using ECA rules, and finally drive such a process by creating events to fulfill data flow between ShadowComponents. As the fragments of a portlet are synchronized with their corresponding Shadow Component, such a process enables the portlet interoperation. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective in achieving portlet interoperability in portals.
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- Portal
- Porlet Interoperability
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Song, J., Wei, J., Wan, S. (2007). An HTML Fragments Based Approach for Portlet Interoperability. In: Indulska, J., Raymond, K. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72883-2_15
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