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IMHO this page is out of date to the point that it is of questionable usefulness. In particular, the objections to Spring Portlet MVC likely no longer apply. Personally, I wholeheartedly recommend Spring PortletMVC to anyone seeking a JSR-168 development framework. -~awp9Unlicensed user |
I spent a few weeks researching different approaches and frameworks to developing portlets. The basis for this research was to find a good methodology to developing portlets for uPortal 3.0. A specific desire was to try to find a way to reuse as much functionality as possible across different portlets.
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Tiles offers a more robust way to put together web pages. Although the technology is roughly equivalent to the include mechanism of JSP pages it can offer a lot more if a lot of thought goes into setting up the pieces correctly. There is no reason Tiles cant be used right away with the approach recommended, this is simply pointing out that to make effective use of Tiles, would require some more time in coming up with the best ways to use it.