From 99d6de546c74f0eed230ea8253dda6b85109d2e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Koivisto Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:55:18 +0200 Subject: Add documentation to master branch Change-Id: I2504bb10f1ae73ec0cbc08b7ba5a88925caa1674 --- documentation/portal/portal-overview.asciidoc | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 documentation/portal/portal-overview.asciidoc (limited to 'documentation/portal/portal-overview.asciidoc') diff --git a/documentation/portal/portal-overview.asciidoc b/documentation/portal/portal-overview.asciidoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8368de1fe2 --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/portal/portal-overview.asciidoc @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: Overview +order: 1 +layout: page +--- + +[[portal.overview]] += Overview + +Vaadin supports running UIs as portlets in a portal, as defined in the JSR-286 +(Java Portlet API 2.0) standard. A portlet UI is defined just as a regular UI, +but deploying to a portal is somewhat different from deployment of regular web +applications, requiring special portlet descriptors, etc. Creating the portlet +project with the Vaadin Plugin for Eclipse or a Maven archetype automatically +generates the necessary descriptors. + +In addition to providing user interface through the Vaadin UI, portlets can +integrate with the portal to switch between portlet modes and process special +portal requests, such as actions and events. + +While providing generic support for all portals implementing the standard, +Vaadin especially supports the Liferay portal and the needed portal-specific +configuration in this chapter is given for Liferay. Vaadin also has a special +Liferay IPC add-on to enable communication between portlets. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3