Developing mobile portlets

This section takes you through the process of creating mobile portlets that generate XDIME markup.

Using Mobile Portal Toolkit to create your portlets
You can use Mobile Portal Toolkit to create your portlets and to create the Multi-Channel Server policies used by your portlets.
Requirements and limitations for portlets that support XDIME markup
There are requirements and limitations for portlets that support XDIME markup. These portlets can use the standard portlet API.
Using Multi-Channel Server policies
A number of different Multi-Channel Server (MCS) policy types can be used by portlets that support XDIME markup.
XDIME portlet design tips
This section provides design guidelines for XDIME portlets.
Style rules defined in the XDIME aggregator's Multi-Channel Server theme policy
You can use style rules defined in the XDIME aggregator's Multi-Channel Server theme policy.
Developing MAP portlets using XDIME
The MAP sample portlet (MAPSample) can be used to test the functionality of the Media Access Proxy (MAP) server and demonstrate how images on an MAP server can be referenced from an XDIME JSP.
Developing Struts portlets using XDIME
WebSphere® Portal provides a Struts Portlet Framework for creating Struts based portlets and provides a customized version of the Struts tag library. Mobile Portal Accelerator Struts support adds XDIME specific markup support to the Struts tag library for tags that generate markup (for example, the link, form, and img tags).