What are the benefits of JSR 168?
Portal integration components based on the new standard will enable interoperability independent of the portal vendor solution — and enable enterprises to more easily use portal platforms for the secure delivery of personalized Web services and aggregated content between multiple internal and external portal deployments. • For Developers: The new standard will allow developers to reuse existing integration methods for faster addition of data, applications, and services from multiple back-end sources. Developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) will benefit from reduced development time and cost since the specification is based on Java APIs and extends J2EE capabilities to portals. • For Customers: Enterprises will benefit from greater efficiency and ROI since personalized, aggregated content can be delivered from portal platforms to end-users from a multitude of sources previously difficult to integrate. • For Integrators: Integrators will have an easier time integrating and ag