Commerce Enabled Portal tutorial: Enabling communication between a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet and a third party portlet

This tutorial guides you through enabling a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet to communicate with a portlet from a non WebSphere Commerce (or third party) application. As a result your Commerce Enabled Portal portlet will be able to listen to messages from a third party portlet, and react appropriately to the message.

In this tutorial you will learn how to extend a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet in order for the portlet to communicate with a third party portlet. At the end of this tutorial, the extended Commerce Enabled Portal portlet (generic catalog portlet) will be able to listen and respond to messages from a sample third party portlet.

As part of this tutorial, you will do the following:

Pre-requisites

Before you start this tutorial, you must do the following:

Time required

You will need approximately 2 hours to complete the steps in this tutorial.

Starting the tutorial

To complete the tutorial, do the following tasks:

  1. Extend a Commerce Enabled Portal portlet
  2. Define the new Commerce Enabled Portal Portlet
  3. Create a non WebSphere Commerce portlet application project
  4. Display the portlets

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