| Florian Racky 2004-04-23, 4:33 am |
| Hi,
> 1. Can any Windows based PC applications be made a
> portlet? Forexample, can I make Solitaire a portlet?
That is what they tell you if they want you to buy the product... I think there are some ways to do that. I heard about a Windows Terminal Server Applet that allows you to use your Windows Desktop remotely. From my point of view there is definitely no eas
y way (something like "Portlet" - "New Windows Portlet" - "solitair.exe").
> How about PC applications that require some kind of login,
> say a VB6 application for customer call tracking? Can I use a
> single login for the portal and have it supply different logins to
> PC applications behind the scenes?
You can do SSO for Web Applications using LTPA-Cookies. User logins and passwords can be stored in so called "Credential Vaults". These credentials can be read by portlets and used to login your users.
> 3. I assume the "recommended" applications that become portlets are
> the WS App Server kind (JSP/Servlet types)?
Portlet extends servlet. If you want to display existing webpages or webapplications in your portal you can use a website portlet or a webclipping portlet which are (afaik) part of the standard installation of Websphere Portal.
Flo
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