Portlet

A portlet is any ContentElement that appears in some block in a portal. The term comes by analogy comes from applets and servlets (which might be providing the portlet content via a WebService). So it is especially apt when the content provides a mini-application like a calendar or login interface.

A portal template, like any CMS template, contains blocks (sometimes called slots or boxes, etc.) where content elements or content objects will be placed.

These elements may be HTML? fragments, text converted to HTML on the fly, XML converted to HTML by XSLT, news feeds including Javascript or XML RDF (called RSS for RDF Syndication Services), images, applets, Flash files, etc. Collectively, these content objects are sometime called portlets.

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