Implement AJAX-Style portal

Objective

This article is written for developers who have experience with the BEA WebLogic portal. Help them apply Ajax technology to the BEA WebLogic portal, allowing users to get a better experience.

I hope the author's experience in the portal can help and inspire everyone. Limited to space and subject so no in-depth technical details, interested readers please refer to the later literature, or write a letter with me to study together. This article is not portal,portlet,jsr168, Ajax Primer Development article, these chapters refer to: http://dev2dev.bea.com.cn

In the technical and conceptual part is not very detailed, because there is too much information on the Internet, will not be explained in detail, but in order not to affect the reading, or will give a simple explanation.

There is no special explanation for the text. The explanation for the portal is based on the BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 SP4.

What is an AJAX-style portal?

For customers, Ajax-style portal is most of the operations will not refresh the page, including the most basic portlets maximize, minimize, delete and other operations, browser and server interaction is not through the URL, or the form of the post completed, It was done through XMLHttpRequest.

Let's take a look at real-world examples: we've actually seen a lot of actual AJAX-style portal,

For example, Microsoft and Google's Portal:

Http://my.msn.com

Http://google.com

Apply for an account number, and then enter the operation, such as add, delete, maximize, minimize the portlet try, the page does not like the traditional portal as a result of refreshing the page, the entire operation is very smooth.