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WebSphere Portal | Web Services

A Web service is an interface that describes a collection of network-accessible operations. WebSphere Portal provides support for the OASIS WSRP standard. The OASIS WSRP standard simplifies the integration of remote applications and content into portals. With WSRP, you can select from a rich choice of remote content and applications (presentation interfaces and their data) and integrate them into your portal with just a few mouse clicks and no programming effort. You can also configure WSRP producers support for specified WSRP-enabled local portlet applications as presentation-oriented WSRP services and make them available to remote portal server consumers who want to use these services.

The WSRP interface is described using a standard XML description language called Web Service Description Language (WSDL), so that the service can be invoked without prior knowledge of the platform, language or implementation design of the Web service. Web services are located using the standard Universal Description and Discovery Interface (UDDI), which can be a private or public registry of Web services. .

The Web services administration portlet enables administrators to configure Web services producer and consumer support for specified WSRP-enabled applications within the portal.

Support for WSRP also enables WebSphere Portal to integrate external applications through remote portal servers, and to promote local portal portlet applications to remote portals. A new portlet can be automatically activated, but with no special permissions. Access control for the new portlet is inherited from the default portlet settings, but can be set explicitly by the administrator.
After the portlet is installed, you can copy it, set its configuration parameters, activate or deactivate it, or uninstall it