Task overview: Managing portlets

You can use this task to manage deployed portlet applications.

Before you begin this task, have a portlet application installed. See Installing J2EE application files for additional information.

Overview

Procedure

• Render a portlet.

  • Access a single portlet using Portlet URL addressability.

  • Access multiple portlets using Portlet aggregation using JavaServer Pages.

  • Access portlets using Remote request dispatcher.

• Change the location of Portlet preferences. By default, portlet preferences for each portlet window are stored in a cookie. However, you can change the location of where to store portlet preferences.

• Disable URL addressability. By default, you can access a portlet through an URL, however, you can disable this feature.

• Enable portlet fragment caching. Portlet fragment caching is disabled by default.