International Business Machines Corporation

Gary Thomas Barta

Carl Steven Swanson

Robert Thomas Uthe

Kathryn Heninger Britton

Samar Choudhary

Vijay Pandiarajan

Velda Bartek

Joseph A Bohn

Douglas Robert Petty

Joseph Laurence Saunders

Eric John Fingal

Brock K Brogan

A task-like user interface is provided for Web-based applications. Preferred embodiments enable users to initiate multiple instances of tasks within a single Web application, where independent state information is retained for each instance. Each user-initiated task also has a prescribed life cycle with a definite start and end. Resources allocated to perform various activities can therefore be released when the activity ends. Optionally, contextual information can be passed to a task upon invocation. Support for persisting a currently-viewable work unit as a user-selectable favorite may optionally be provided.

User task interface in a web application

A display portlet is incorporated into a portal page in a web-based environment. This display portlet presents the launch sequence of the portlets that are currently running on that portal page. The displayed launch sequence indicates the source of a launched portlet and displays any portlets that are launched by a portlet running on that portal page. The visual representations can be of various formats such as a spacial display or a tree representation. Each launched portlet has a stored record containing information about the portlet, the portlet that launched it and any portlets launched by the particular portlet.

Method for the display of visual sequencing of launched application portlets and task page relationship information in a web-base environment

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