You can select to consume Web services from Producers as
remote portlets. You do this by using the Manage Web Modules portlet.
Perform the following steps to consume a remote portlet:
- Click the Consume button. The
list of Producers is displayed.
- Select a Producer. You can search to locate a particular
Producer. When you select the Producer, the list of Web
services provided by that Producer is displayed.
- Select a Web service that you want consume as a remote
portlet. You can search to locate a particular portlet.
- Click OK to continue, or Cancel to
quit.
Note: When a Producer provides a portlet, the portlet itself
is provided, not an instance of it. Therefore only settings made in
the Configure mode of the portlet are available at the consumed remote
portlet. Adding a remote portlet to a page on the Consumer side creates
a new instance of the provided portlet on the Producer side. But this
instance can only be modified on the Consumer and is not visible on
the Producer portal.