Cúram portlets are portlets that display information pertaining to a Cúram application. There is a 1:1 mapping between the content of certain Cúram pods and Cúram portlets - with some slight differences - therefore there is a strong relationship between the content displayed in Cúram portlets and Cúram pods, see the Cúram Pod Developers Guide for more details on pods. Cúram portlets have been developed in accordance with the JSR 286 specification. However, it is important to note that this does not mean that Cúram portlets currently exhibit all the JSR 286 features, such as inter-portlet communication.
It is important to realize that Cúram portlets are not delivered out-of-the-box as ready to deploy portlets. There are some important steps that must be undertaken before Cúram portlets can be deployed on a portal page, and which are described in the following chapters. Furthermore if it is requirement that Cúram portlets must be SSO (described in Access Control of Cúram Portlets) compliant, then the instructions specified in Single Sign On Curam Portlet Configuration must be undertaken.