Portlet Publishing Types

Portlet Publishing Types

About Portlet Publishing Types

uPortal provides a number of reusable portlet publishing "types." While it's possible to configure any portlet via the generic portlet type, creating and using publishing types allows implementers to provide pre-configured settings for commonly used configurations. For example, the "Web Proxy Portlet" publishing type is pre-configured to know the application path and portlet name of uPortal's bundled web proxy portlet application and is explicitly configured with a list of configuration parameters.

Default Portlet Publishing Types

Recommended Publishing Types

The following publishing types represent the list of current, non-deprecated, portlet-based publishing types.

Type

Description

Type

Description

Bookmarks Portlet

Bookmarks Portlet

Image

Displays an image with optional caption and subcaption

Inline Frame

Renders an HTML page within a frame.

Portlet

Adapter for JSR-168 Portlets

SQL

Executes a SQL query against a selected DataSource.

Web Proxy Portlet

Web Proxy Portlet

Deprecated Types

As of uPortal 3.2, the IChannel framework has been deprecated and developers have begun to replace existing IChannel-based publishing types with portlet-based equivalents. The following publishing types are deprecated in uPortal 3.2.x and will not be included in subsequent releases.

Type

Description

Type

Description

Applet

Displays a java applet

Custom

Custom IChannel

RSS

Renders content provided in the popular RSS (Rich Site Summary) format

Version

Displays the version number of a specified portal component.

Web Proxy

Incorporates a dynamic HTML or XML application

XML SSL

Transforms an XML document into a fragment of markup language given a set of XSLT stylesheets specified in a uPortal stylesheet list (SSL) file.

XML XSLT

Transforms an XML document into a fragment of markup language using a single XSLT.