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Creating a Remote Portlet Web Service

Portlet web services allow you to specify functional settings for your portlets, leaving the display settings to be set in each associated portlet. A remote portlet web service references services hosted by a separate remote server.

Before you create a remote portlet web service, you must:
  • Install the portlet code on the computer that hosts the portal or on another computer
  • Create a remote server pointing to the computer that hosts the portlet code (optional, but recommended)
To create a remote portlet web service you must have the following rights and privileges:
  • Access Administration activity right
  • Create Web Service Infrastructure activity right
  • At least Edit access to the parent folder (the folder that will store the remote portlet web service)
  • At least Select access to the remote server that the remote portlet web service will use
  1. Click Administration.
  2. Open the folder in which you want to store the remote portlet web service.
  3. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Web Service — Remote Portlet. The Remote Portlet Web Service Editor opens.
  4. On the Main Settings page, complete the following task:
  5. Click the HTTP Configuration page and complete the following task:
  6. Click the Advanced URL Settings page and complete the following task:
  7. Click the Advanced Settings page and complete the following task:
  8. Click the Authentication Settings page and complete the following task:
  9. Click the Preferences page and complete the following task:
  10. Click the User Information page and complete the following task:
  11. Click the Debug Settings page and complete the following task:
  12. Click the Alternative Browsing Devices page and complete the following task:
  13. Click the Properties and Names page and complete the following tasks:

The default security for this remote portlet web service is based on the security of the parent folder. You can change the security when you save this remote portlet web service (on the Security tab page in the Save As dialog box), or by editing this remote portlet web service (on the Security page of the Remote Portlet Web Service Editor).

Portal administrators with at least Select access to this remote portlet web service can create portlets or portlet templates based on the web service.

Parent topic: About Extending Portal Services with Portlets

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