Writing the Code

For this tutorial, the portal component needs to reference other portal applications, so additional changes are needed in the following files:

portalapp.xml: The portalapp.xml file provides configuration information for your application, and defines the components and services in your application. For each component and service, you specify the implementing Java class and configuration information.
mySiteMap.java: As always, define the functionality for the component, including the HTML to be displayed for this component. In addition to adding code to an existing method, this tutorial requires defining additional helper methods.