An automatic approach to displaying web applications as portlets

  • Authors:

  • Fernando Bellas;Iñaki Paz;Alberto Pan;Óscar Díaz;Víctor Carneiro;Fidel Cacheda

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information and Communications Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;ONEKIN Research Group, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain;Department of Information and Communications Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;ONEKIN Research Group, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain;Department of Information and Communications Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Department of Information and Communications Technologies, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICDCIT'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Wrapping existing Web applications into portals allows to protect investment and improves user experience. Most current portlet-based portal servers provide a bridge portlet that allows to “portletize” a single Web page, that is, wrapping the whole page or a set of regions as a portlet. They use an annotation-based approach to specifying the page's regions that must be extracted. This approach does not scale well when a whole application is to be portletized, since it requires to manually annotate each page. This paper describes the design of a bridge portlet that automatically adapts pages according to the space available in the portlet's window. The bridge portlet delegates page adaptation to a framework that uses a chain of user-configurable “transformers”. Each transformer implements an automatic page adaptation technique. Experiments show that our approach is effective.