A: The Java Portlet Programming model is the primary, standard way for developers to provide components to be used in portals. Portal products differentiate each other in the extent to which they ...

Mainsoft is joining with IBM Monday to enable enterprises to link portals based on .Net with portals built on Java. Mainsoft’s .Net Extensions for WebSphere Portal product suite combines new ...

The API, known as JSR (Java Specification Request) 168, would allow portals from different vendors to interoperate.

The portal is also emerging as a strategic element in Web services, promising a user-facing framework for linking to back-end applications and housing Web services.

Developers are taking advantage of Sun's recent Web communities to spur Java programming efforts.