Accessing portal pages from web app.
Hi,
My requirement of portal is slightly different from the general use. Let me explain it. I have to access the portal page from within my application. i.e. I would like to include the portal page in my application page say dashboard.
The problem here i am facing is that the portlets/portal pages work on a differnt webcontext (say portal) and my application works on a different context (say abc). Since they are two different web contexts, i cannot include the page of one context into the other. I tried it but couldn't find a clean solution.
( One option is to use getServletContext("Portal") from within my dashboard page then call the jsp include to get the protal pages. I do not want to use it as there are many problems with it including passing the security credentials etc...).
So the typical scenario would look something like this.
____________abc/dashboard.jsp________________________ | _______________________________________________ | | | | | | | Dashboard page contents | | | |_______________________________________________| | | | | __________portal/portalPage___________________ | | | | | | | Included portal page inside dashboard | | | | | | | | _____________ _____________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Portlet1 | | Portlet2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |____________ | |____________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | _____________ _____________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Portlet3 | | Portlet4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |____________ | |____________ | | | | | | | | |_______________________________________________| | | | |_____________________________________________________|
The requirement arose because we want to include a few portlets in the existing application. i.e upgrade the existing dashboard to a portal page and all other pages would remain same.
I just wanted to know if this kind of setup is possible with JBoss Portal or not? If possible how? and what are the implications on the security modue (Authentication/Authorizaiton)?
awaiting a quick response,
Thank you,
Bhupesh