Managing portlets

A portlet is a web-based component that processes requests and generates dynamic content. A portlet may be customized to change, for example, its size, appearance and content. This makes portlets adaptable for the developer, offering greater flexibility and variety in how a product’s user interface appears and works.

Portlets appear to public users of Arena simply as features of the website.

Arena includes a huge range of portlets. Some portlets are created by Axiell, others are from a range of general portlets that are part of Liferay.

This section explains only aspects of Liferay administration relevant to this subject.

Note:
Some third party products and documentation refer to portlets as applets or applications. Within this context of Arena, portlets, applets and applications are the same.