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A portlet is like a mini-application inside a regular application. It presents a little bit of information and usually some controls. The user can communicate via the controls, which causes the portlet to update.

Portlets produce fragments of markup code that are aggregated into a portal page. A portal page is displayed as a collection of non-overlapping portlet windows, where each portlet window displays a portlet.

Usually, the Portlet state is completely independent of the rest of the application.



 

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