1.9. Summary

The portlet technology is promising in terms of its reach and impact. The focus on portals has increased in recent years, and has gained momentum with the release of the Portlet 2.0 specification. It’s important to understand the unique features of a portal (personalization, content aggregation, customization, and authentication) to get a feel for how Java portlet technology makes it easy to develop portals.

In this chapter, you were introduced to portals and Java portlet technology using a simple Hello World example. The information covered in sections 1.6 (“Getting started with Liferay Portal”) and 1.7 (“Setting up the development environment”) provide the foundation for developing and deploying example portlets in the rest of this book.