Thinking Inside the Box: Building Spring-Enabled Portlet Applications

Windows changed everything. Back in the days of MS-DOS, you could only run one application at a time. Switching between writing a letter and balancing your checkbook involved closing a word processor and opening a spreadsheet. But now you can be running dozens of applications simultaneously, each inside its own window. And now switching from one
application to another may be as simple as a shift of your eye or a click of the mouse button.

Portals do for web applications what Windows did for MS-DOS. With traditional web applications such activities as checking the weather, viewing baseball scores, and keeping up with the latest news involves visiting several distinct web applications. But with portals, all of these applications, presented as portlets, can be combined into a
single web-page for convenient and concise viewing.

In this session, I'll demonstrate how to build portlet application using Spring Portlet MVC, an adaptation of the Spring MVC framework that is geared toward writing JSR-168 compliant portlet applications.

About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 2 dogs.

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