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To display XML content in the portal using the content provider framework, you must create the following content provider objects:

  • Service: Represents a content provider, and is responsible for initializing the connection, creating entities and authentication.

  • Entity: Represents a single XML source from a content provider. A content provider generally provides a number of XML sources, for example, one for news headlines and another for weather.

  • Authentication Manager (HTTP only): Handles HTTP authentication parameters.

  • SOAP Message Processor (SOAP only): Processors SOAP request messages just before they are sent and response messages just after they are received. The processor can also modify a response message when an error occurs.

  • Portal Component: Requests XML from an entity, and then transforms and renders the content.

You must also provide, in your PAR file, XML transformers for each XML source. For more information, see Transformation Service.