As a WSRP Producer you can provide portlets as WSRP services
to Consumers. Consumers can then integrate these portlets into their
portal remotely and use them.
To provide a portlet as a WSRP service for use by Consumer
portals, proceed as follows:
- In the list of portlets, locate the portlet that you want
to provide.
- Click the Provide portlet icon in
the row for the portlet that you want to provide. A prompt
appears and asks you to confirm the Provide action.
- Click OK at the prompt to provide
the portlet as a Web service, or click Cancel to
quit. If you click OK, a check
mark appears in the Provided column for the
portlet, and the Provide portlet icon for the
portlet changes to the Withdraw portlet icon.
The portlet is provided as a WSRP service. It can now be consumed
as a remote portlet by Consumer portals.
Note: When a Producer provides
a portlet, the portlet itself is provided, not an instance of it.
Therefore only settings made in the Configure mode of the portlet
are available at the consumed remote portlet. Adding a remote portlet
to a page on the Consumer side creates a new instance of the provided
portlet on the Producer side. But this instance can only be modified
on the Consumer and is not visible on the Producer portal.