Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The portal server isn’t dead, despite the ongoing consensus within the Java community that the ...

In the October 1996 article What is Java, Really?, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote the following in his introductory overview of Java: Most people view Java as the programming language of the Web. Though Java ...

The Portlet 1.0 spec didn’t do much to enable portlets to communicate, especially if they lived in different Web applications. Author Naresh Devnani shows you how all that has changed with the new ...

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

A short article appeared in April of 2013 on TheServerSide that discussed the industry's renewed interest in portal based technology, along with the increased demand for Java professionals with ...

Swiss company Canoo, is offering developers a free portlet integration code that can be used with Canoo’s UltraLightClient to create and run Rich Internet Applications as portlets on a portal server.

The current version, OpenJDK 25, was released in the fall of 2025, with many vendors offering Long-Term Support (LTS). Many companies use such releases as a stability anchor for migrations and ...

Portlets, or portal applets, are visual components that make up a Web page residing in a Web portal. Typically, when an end user requests a personalized Web page, multiple portlets are invoked when ...