hi guys,

if anyone could help with useful links where portlets can be purchased i'll be grateful.
specifically HR and CRM portlets (JSR168 compliant).

tnks.

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Wilkanah

if anyone could help with useful links where portlets can be purchased i'll be grateful.

what do you mean buy portlets? Portlets are purely JSP or database based  available on application layer which can be customized

You will need the entire infra that support it; providers, load balancer, application servers(oracle or websphere), database, support analyst etc.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?  I could help you out.

Portlets are pluggable user interface 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. Portlet applications include email, weather reports, discussion forums, and news.

Portlet standards are intended to enable software developers to create portlets that can be plugged in any portal supporting the standards.

This is off of wikipedia-

wilkanah,

Portlets are pluggable user interface components that are managed and displayed in a web portal.

Thats danger of relying on text-book definition. You dont get the complete picture!

Buying portlet is like saying, I want to buy engine oil while you have no car, or you have car but no driver.

So they key to going ahead:

what is aim? what objective or businesss requirement you want to meet? what infra that would support this.

obviously u dont have the information i seek but since u insist,

i have liferay portal set up. i've deployed sample portlets (just to test ) on it and its fine. I need CRM and HR portlets because,

this link would take u to a portlet vendor but they don't have what i'm looking for.

http://www.adenin.com/PortletCatalog.asp

i don't have time for word games, you either have the info or u dont.

didn't find much on google.

That was going to be my next queston, you already have that taken care of. You may want to try posting to the portal/portlet forum at javaranch.

http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=85

wilkanah:


i have liferay portal set up. i've deployed sample portlets (just to test ) on it and its fine. I need CRM and HR portlets because,

this link would take u to a portlet vendor but they don't have what i'm looking for.

http://www.adenin.com/PortletCatalog.asp

wilkanah

obviously u don't have the information i seek but since u insist,

I see what you trying to do; thats why I asked 'what objective or businesss requirement you want to meet?'.

Try Sugar CRM(www.sugarcrm.com) and host of others.

@babasin

thnks a lot but sugarcrm; tis CRM apps not CRM portlets

You can't buy portlets, as far as I know. CRM solutions are an integrated feature of IntelliEnterprise. You can link two or more applications to create a CRM solution. Applications can be created using the application builder on the "Administration" page of your portal.

What are these ppl talking about?

Anyway, poster there are ways u can make certain frameworks work with portlets. these include PHP applications. so the idea I have is to use the Portal Bridge to make SugarCRM work with LifeRay.

http://portals.apache.org/bridges/multiproject/portals-bridges-php/index.html

Also you can use any of the following J2EE based open-source CRM apps:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/centraview
http://www.compiere.com/
http://www.hipergate.org/

, then simply use the Portal Bridge.