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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
May. 30, 2003
Samar Choudhary, Cary, NC (US);
John M. Lucassen, Katonah, NY (US);
Shankar Ramaswamy, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Sai Gopala Rathnam, Seven Fields, PA (US);
Amber Roy-chowdhury, Cary, NC (US);
Douglass J. Wilson, Boston, MA (US);
Samar Choudhary, Cary, NC (US);
John M. Lucassen, Katonah, NY (US);
Shankar Ramaswamy, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Sai Gopala Rathnam, Seven Fields, PA (US);
Amber Roy-Chowdhury, Cary, NC (US);
Douglass J. Wilson, Boston, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for integrating portlets. When viewing portlets within a portal container, a user is presented with a choice of one or more sources of data and, for each source, one or more actions that the user can take regarding the source. When an action is selected, it causes the source data to be transferred to one or more 'target' portlets that have also been activated by the user. The set of actions available from a given source is automatically provided given the available target portlets. As each portlet is initialized, it informs a 'broker' of the actions that the portlet supports along with the type of data that is used by the action. When a portal page is being constructed, each portlet identifies to the broker the sources of data within the portlet along with the values and data types corresponding to the sources.