Portlets are the information display components of
a Web portal application such as the SAS Information Delivery Portal.
A portlet can process requests from the user and generate dynamic
content such as report lists, alerts, workflow notifications, or performance
metrics.
In addition
to a set of standard portlets, the SAS BI Portlets product provides
a framework that enables you to create custom portlets that use the
JSR 168 portlet specification.
JSR-168-compliant
portlets are different from portlets that are proprietary to SAS in
the following ways:
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JSR-168-compliant portlets are
implemented by using an industry-standard API. Proprietary SAS portlets
are implemented by using the SAS Portlet API.
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JSR-168-compliant portlets can
be deployed in either IBM WebSphere Portal or SAS Information Delivery
Portal. Proprietary SAS portlets can be deployed in SAS Information
Delivery Portal only.
For information
about developing portlets using the SAS Portlet API, see
Developing Portlets for the SAS Information Delivery Portal.