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Rory Newton

interportlet communication with Orbeon XForms

Hi,

I'd like to know if it's possible to implement interportlet communication with your portlet and Liferay. I've had a look online but can't find much information. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Rory

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: interportlet communication with Orbeon XForms

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Rory,

Rory Newton wrote

I'd like to know if it's possible to implement interportlet communication
with your portlet and Liferay. I've had a look online but can't find much
information. Any help greatly appreciated.

We don't provide an out-of-the-box mechanism to do inter-portlet communication. Would using JavaScript work for you for this? You could send an event from one portlet to the other using dispatchEvent(). Each portlet lives in its own HTML form, and you can specify the form to that function. Note that this is really just an idea, and I have never tried this myself. You can find more on dispatchEvent() on:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-extensions

Alex

Rory Newton

Re: Re: interportlet communication with Orbeon XForms

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply, I'll try that. I've also been looking at this: http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-java

I haven't tried it yet in a portlet but do you know of any reason why deploying the Orbeon engine separately with Liferay portlets/any portlet environment wouldn't work?

I appreciate that this might be more of a portlet specific question and not an Obeon one, but any thoughts would be greatly welcome.

Rory

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:

Rory,

Rory Newton wrote:
>
> I'd like to know if it's possible to implement interportlet communication
> with your portlet and Liferay. I've had a look online but can't find much
> information. Any help greatly appreciated.
>

We don't provide an out-of-the-box mechanism to do inter-portlet
communication. Would using JavaScript work for you for this? You could send
an event from one portlet to the other using dispatchEvent(). Each portlet
lives in its own HTML form, and you can specify the form to that function.
Note that this is really just an idea, and I have never tried this myself.
You can find more on dispatchEvent() on:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-extensions

Alex

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Alessandro Vernet

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Rory,

Rory Newton wrote

Hi Alex,
Thanks for the reply, I'll try that. I've also been looking at this:
http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-java

I haven't tried it yet in a portlet but do you know of any reason why
deploying the Orbeon engine separately with Liferay portlets/any portlet
environment wouldn't work?

I am not sure to understand what you are asking. What you do you mean by "deploying the Orbeon engine separately with Liferay"? Are you talking about deploying Orbeon Forms as a portlet inside Liferay vs. as a servlet inside Tomcat?

Alex