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| Q : | What is Liferay Portal? | | |
| A : | Liferay Portal is a JSR-168/JSR-286 compliant portal. It is a web application. In a nutshell, you can think of as the portal as one big servlet. It is a servlet that happens to be a portlet container. The portal source builds this portlet container using the Ant build tool and the JDK. | |
| Q : | What is Portlets? | | |
| A : | Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. Portlets produce fragments of markup code that are aggregated into a portal page. Typically, following the desktop metaphor, a portal page is displayed as a collection of non-overlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet. Hence a portlet (or collection of portlets) resembles a web-based application that is hosted in a portal. Some examples of portlet applications are email, weather reports, discussion forums, and news. | |