In previous articles, I have described the concept of an Inter-Portlet Communication (IPC) framework, its technical details in portlet configuration, and the IPC framework in live action. In this article, I will try to describe how a good IPC framework can affect design and development model. Inter-portlet communication framework is a messaging middleware for portlets. [...]
The sync tool that was supposed to sync data between your laptop and your mobile device crashed, and you are in a hurry to get the information on your computer to your device. What would you do? I don’t know about you, but I took the shortcut, although a very stupid one. For those who [...]
I haven’t synced my HTC Touch Pro with my Ubuntu laptop for a month, while in the meantime, I have performed system update a couple of times. Now that it’s time to sync again, and what do I get? … Member 2 of type synce-opensync-plugin just sent all changes All clients sent changes or error [...]
Yesterday, I saw a young colleague struggle with C++ string, so I decided to take a look to see what was going on. He was more familiar with Java than with C++. He was creating a string, and it didn’t come out exactly the way he wanted. The code looked similar to the following: string [...]
Through a few real use cases, this paper describes the IPC mechanism in live action. The paper describes in details how to create page flow by chaining pages together using portlet communication.
Previously, I have proposed a new framework for Inter-Portlet Communication (IPC) to remedy the shortfall of the Java Portlet Specifcation. In this paper, I will describe the technical details on how to define IPC in portlet configuration.
IPC is the communication mechanism between different portlets on a portal platform. This paper describes the concept and framework of a proposed IPC mechanism, and the different use cases for portlet communications.