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[09:15:19 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> it essentially lets you make requests to a portlet where the portlet has complete control over the response
[09:15:41 CDT(-0500)] <Arvids> yes, that's what i was assuming
[09:15:42 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> there is no portal rendered content, so you can return JSON, binary image date, etc...
[09:16:02 CDT(-0500)] <Arvids> ahh... well.. that's the key here
[09:16:06 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the big advantage of resource urls over that AJAX in a portlet approach from portlet 1.0 is fewer requests
[09:16:35 CDT(-0500)] <Arvids> how does that come?
[09:16:40 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the ajax in a 1.0 portlet approach results in a POST then 302 redirect to a servlet