WSRP .NET Consumer
Use the WSRP .NET Consumer to rapidly implement a custom portal solution based on Web Services for Remote
Portlets (WSRP) or embed it in existing ASP.NET applications to provide content aggregation and personalization
services based on WSRP. The WSRP .NET Consumer is positioned for companies wanting to build custom portals
or add portal services to existing .NET applications based on WSRP for such projects as B2B/B2C portals,
executive dashboards, content aggregation and integration applications and other business initiatives.
Custom WSRP Portals and Applications
The WSRP .NET Consumer offers businesses an alternative to using large, high-cost enterprise portals
or developing a custom portal or portal services architectures in-house. In many situations using a
full-fledged portal or developing a custom portal architecture is not cost effective, justifiable or
feasible. The WSRP .NET Consumer is specifically designed for those customers wanting to implement custom
portals or add portal-based services to existing ASP.NET applications.
The WSRP .NET Consumer is responsible for managing and presenting WSRP portlets and provides standard
services for navigation, interaction, portlet-to-portlet communication, resources, portlet subscription,
personalization, layout, session management, caching, user profiles and all the other services required
for a complete WSRP consumer implementation.
WSRP Benefits
The only standards-based remote portal-to-portlet interface is WSRP. By using WSRP, the NetUnity WSRP
.NET Consumer is independently isolated from the portlets it consumes and does not require deploying
of portlet binaries to the consumer server. Implementing solution based on WSRP provides the following
benefits:
- parallel aggregation and display of remote portlets
- isolation of portlets from portal or consumer
- multi-tiered scalable consumer and portlet architecture
- integrate cross platform, 3rd party and external portlets based on WSRP
- flexible and standards-based portlet-to-portlet communication options
- portlet deployment that is independent of the portal or consumer architecture or platform
WSRP Versions Supported
The WSRP .NET Consumer supports the WSRP version 1 and version 2 specifications. Supporting both specifications
preserves the investment in version 1 portlets while taking full advantage and obtaining the most benefit
from the new features in the version 2 specification.
Native .NET Implementation
The WSRP .NET Consumer is engineered in fully managed C# code for high performance and to support heavy
workloads. It employs advanced memory management, caching, queuing, threading, and asynchronous processing
of portlets to provide high performance and high-availability on Windows servers.
Rapid Deployment
The WSRP .NET Consumer was designed to be compact for rapid deployment by reducing its file system footprint
and eliminating dependencies on specialized and non-standard libraries, services and third party runtime
platforms. A standard Windows Server configuration with access to a SQL Server database is all that
is needed to successfully deploy the WSRP .NET Consumer.
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