Java Buzz Forum - Why Facebook is A Portal and Portlets not

Articles |
News |
Weblogs |
Books |
Forums

Artima Forums | Articles | Weblogs | Java Answers | News

Sponsored Link •

Java Buzz Forum
Why Facebook is A Portal and Portlets not

0 replies on 1 page.

Welcome Guest
Sign In

Back to Topic List

Reply to this Topic

Search Forum

Threaded View


Previous Topic		Next Topic

Flat View: This topic has 0 replies on 1 page

Fred Grott

Posts: 4361
Nickname: shareme
Registered: Jan, 2003

Fred Grott is Lead Developer-CEO of ShareMe Technologies LLC -The Mobile Future

Why Facebook is A Portal and Portlets not

Posted: May 15, 2008 2:48 PM

This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Java Buzz by Fred Grott.
Original Post: Why Facebook is A Portal and Portlets not Feed Title: ShareMe Technologies LLC-The Mobile Future Feed URL: http://www.jroller.com/shareme/feed/entries/rss Feed Description: A Weblog about Java programming and digital convergence on mobile devices in such areas as P2P and collaborative technology.	Latest Java Buzz Posts Latest Java Buzz Posts by Fred Grott Latest Posts From ShareMe Technologies LLC-The Mobile Future

Ever wonder why Facebook can act as a portal and be on multiple sites at once? There are two components.

One is the iFrame that magic that allows Facebook to display apps that have pages from another site. The other component is server styled rendering engine that receives all requests and sends back pages.

The Portlet container on the other hand has none of this structure and thus you cannot take a Portlet server and try and morph it into a portal that servers both portlets and multiple site servlet apps as one platform, its not made for that purpose. A great deal of the 20,000 hours Facebook development team spent in 2004 were spent on coming up with this model.

Read: Why Facebook is A Portal and Portlets not

Previous Topic

Next Topic


	Web Artima.com