An Overview of JSR 168 and JSR 286 Along With Sample Portlets

New on Sun Developer Network is a succinct overview of the portlet API standards, Introducing Java Portlet Specifications: JSR 168 and JSR 286, both Java Community Processes. The overview also describes the open-source projects Portlet Container 1.0 and the NetBeans Portlet Plug-in.

Take a look, too, at the slick and useful portlets cited as examples: the Weather Portlet hosted with the article and the portlets in the Open Source Portlet Repository.