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The making of MetroSphere, Part 29: Understand the web.xml and portlet.xml files

Now featured on the developerWorks home page: The making of MetroSphere, Part 29: Understand the web.xml and portlet.xml files

With all of the magic that goes on in the WebSphere® Portal Web interface, it's easy to forget that at its heart, a portlet application is just a collection of servlets and their supporting classes, strung together using the web.xml and portlet.xml files. As we moved to customize the MetroSphere.com experience, we realized that understanding just how these two files fit together was crucial to controlling items such as the initial title of a portlet window. This article explains the major pieces of these two files and how they control what you see in your portlet application.

Technorati tags: XML | portlets | WebSphere | Portal Server | MetroSphere |

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