WSRP: Web Services for Remote Portlets

WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) is an network protocol created and approved by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) designed for communications with remote portlets. It is a web services standard that allows you to “plug-n-play” visual, user-facing web services with portals or other intermediary web applications. It is used to allow portlets to be decoupled from a portal, that are installed to remote portal servers to be aggregated at runtime into a unified portal page by a local portal server. Two competing portal server products such as WebLogic portal and WebSphere Portal can integrate with one another. Work was initially started through the joint efforts of the WSIA (Web Services for Interactive Applications) and WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) OASIS Technical Committees.

Benefits of WSRP

• Portability
• Interoperability
• Options for deployment
• Support by large players in the industry

Main reason for using WSRP for web development

• WSRP decouples the deployment and delivery of applications
• WSRP delivers both data and that data’s presentation logic.
• Implementation of WSRP requires little or no programming

WSRP Portlet type support Pageflow, JSP, Struts and Java portlets.