Portal Components and Services

Portal Components

A portal component produces output to be displayed in an iView of the portal. Content administrators create iViews from portal components deployed in the portal. For more information, see iViews .

The component can provide all the HTML for an iView, or can provide a fragment of HTML to be included within the HTML output of another component.

A portal component is tied to a specific HTTP request. The component is executed when a request is sent to the portal, and the component is listed in the URL. For more information about portal request URLs, see Portal URLs .

For more information about creating portal components, see Building Portal Components .

For more information about the portal components runtime execution, see How Requests Are Handled by Portal Runtime .

Portal Services

A portal service provides processing that is not bound to a specific request. A service can be called by a component or by other services.

The portal provides a number of built-in services, such as a user management service for controlling portal users and groups, or a service that enables client-side eventing between iViews. In your portal applications, you can create custom portal services to be used by your own and/or other applications.

For more information about creating portal services, see Building Portal Services .