Why to Use Portlet?

57.1 Introduction to Portlets
Portlets provide a means of presenting data from multiple sources in a meaningful and related way. Portlets can display excerpts of other web sites, generate summaries of key information, perform searches, and access assembled collections of information from a variety of data sources.

What is portlet application?

Portlets are reusable web modules that provide access to Web-based content, applications, and other resources. ... From an application development perspective, portlets are pluggable web modules that are designed to run inside a portlet container of any portal framework.

What is a portlet in Liferay?

Web apps in Liferay DXP are called portlets. Like many web apps, portlets process requests and generate responses. In the response, the portlet returns content (e.g. HTML, XHTML) for display in browsers.

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