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Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. Motivation
1.2. Audience
1.3. Simple Portal: showcasing JBoss Portlet Container
1.4. Resources

JBoss Portlet Container is the next generation portlet container on which future versions of GateIn, and the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform will be based. It provides a standard-compliant implementation of the JSR-286 Portlet 2.0 specification. It has been developed with reusability in mind so that advanced users, who don't require a full-fledged portal, can leverage the portlet management services it provides in their own applications. JBoss Portlet Container is available through the business-friendly LGPL open source license.

JBoss Portlet Container is targeted at developers and advanced users who want to be able to deploy portlet-based applications but don't need a full-fledged portal.

A simple portal has been built on top of the base portlet container. A JSP taglib is also provided to make it easy to display portlet content in JSP pages. We also provide samples of portlets implementing some of the advanced capabilities of JSR-286.