I am trying to create a generic portlet in my content management project. Anybody that wants to retrieve content from my cms project will then create an instance of that portlet in their individual consumer projects. However, all projects cms/consumers will live on the same server. When I set all this up and login to the admin portal, I see the cms-portlet listed in the portlet-definition tab, however I don't see any of the consumer instances listed in the portlet-instances tab.

My question is, without setting up WSRP is there a way to reference a portlet definition contained within a separate war?

Thanks in advance