Bea Systems, Inc.

Oracle International Corporation

James D'Ambrosia

Subrahmanyam Allamaraju

Christopher Jolley

Kevin Blair Frender

Purushotham Babu Naidu

Brodi Beartusk

Robert Bergman

Scott Musson

Sameer Sawant

George Murnock

Stephen Hetzel

Shane Pearson

Subrahmanyam Allamarju

Jeffrey Sauls

A producer can make available pages and books containing multiple applications. As used herein, the term 'book' refers to a group of pages bound together by a navigational menu. The producer presents the pages and books to the consumer in a service description message. An administrator of the consumer can select the pages and books, thus generating proxy versions on the consumer. The proxy versions can then be presented on the consumer.

System and method for delivering grouped web service applications

A method for responding to a request, comprising accepting the request, mapping the request to a control tree wherein the control tree is a logical representation of a graphical user interface (GUI) and wherein the control tree includes a set of controls which are related hierarchically to one another, advancing the control tree through at least one lifecycle stage based on the request, wherein the control tree includes at least one portlet control that represents at least one portlet, providing the request to a portlet container that contains the at least one portlet, and aggregating the output of each of the at least one portlets and providing the output to the GUI.

Method for portlet instance support in a graphical user interface

A method for rendering a portal graphical user interface (GUI), comprising providing for the representation of a GUI desktop, a GUI look and feel, and a GUI book as a set of controls wherein the controls can be organized in a logical hierarchy, traversing the representation, wherein the traversing comprises associating a theme with a first control in the set of controls, rendering the first control according to the theme, rendering any descendents of the first control according to the theme, wherein any descendents of the first control can override the theme, and wherein one of the set of controls can communicate with another of the set of controls.

Method for providing a graphical user interface

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for configuring and executing portlet responses to events within a web portal framework. These mechanisms and methods can enable event descriptions to be organized within a portlet configuration file with event handlers designated for responding to the event. As used herein, the term event handler refers to description in a configuration file for a portlet that includes an event identifier, an event description, and a response to the event. The term can also refer to the functionality that is generated from the configuration information. The ability of embodiments to organize enable event descriptions within a portlet configuration file with event handlers designated for responding to the event can enable the portlet to respond as indicated by the configuration when an event is detected.

System and method for event based interportlet communications

A system and method for providing a request to a portlet wherein the portlet can render itself in a graphical user interface (GUI), comprising mapping the request to a control tree wherein the control tree is a logical representation of the GUI and wherein the control tree includes a set of controls which are related hierarchically to one another, advancing the control tree through at least one life cycle stage based on the request, wherein the control tree includes a portlet control that represents the portlet, and providing the request to a portlet container, wherein the providing can be performed by the portlet control.

System and method for containing portlets

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) of content to communicate regarding changes to a web portal framework. Methods and mechanisms providing improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) can provide producers with the capability to detect event descriptions within a configuration of the portlet and add a description for the event to a web services descriptor for the portlet. The producer and consumer can then utilize the event description to communicate with the portlet. During an interaction request the consumer and producer can utilize the event description to inform one another of transpiring events.

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Westminster, CO, United States of America

James D'Ambrosia