{"id":47,"date":"2006-08-25T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-08-25T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T19:53:25","slug":"gadgets-unbind-from-portals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/gadgets-unbind-from-portals\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadgets Unbind from Portals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept of a web Portal<\/a> as a framework for integrating information from many different sources into one consolidated view has been popular for some time.\u00a0 Portals are typically composed of pluggable user-interface components called portlets<\/a>\u00a0or gadgets.\u00a0 Portlets are powered by Web Services<\/a> and typically are programmed to be able to pull in data from a variety of corporate and third party data sources.\u00a0 But portlets were built on framework components of the Portal.\u00a0\u00a0 Portlets were only interchangeable among portals built\u00a0using the same Portal infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Now there’s a new breed of mini-webapps known\u00a0as Gadgets and Widgets, next generation portlets.\u00a0 They live outside the browser on your desktop, but they are Internet aware and are able to exchange and update information via Web Service calls.\u00a0 These gadgets are based on a new set of platforms, like Yahoo! Widget Engine<\/a>, live.com<\/a>, Apple Dashboard<\/a>, and Google Desktop<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are a couple of examples from Yahoo!:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This new generation of Widgets in effect unbinds portlets from Portal containers.\u00a0 The framework has been repositioned from existing as a container application housed in a browser to a one-time install framework\u00a0that works at the desktop level that is provided by\u00a0one of the new brands of widget containers, like those mentioned above.\u00a0 These gadget frameworks by-pass the browser and\u00a0look to\u00a0form the beginning of a new generation of web applications.<\/p>\n

Gadgets show up everywhere in the mainstream web, like\u00a0on MySpace<\/a>, driven by data coming from places like YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0 In particular they’re being used frequently for notifications:\u00a0 do I have new email or has someone outbid me on EBay<\/a>?\u00a0 When used in this way, standard messaging tools like email may change.<\/p>\n

Gadgets are sure to make an appearance in the business world.\u00a0 In fact, they already are.\u00a0 Salesforce.com<\/a> is a leading force, making ‘mashups’ and widgets available as different ways to get at information being tracked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What could gadgets do for\u00a0the world of ECM?\u00a0 Some ideas include to-do list gadgets populated with Workflow tasks, a user’s working list gadget that displays repository documents currently being worked on, or a gadget to do quick document searchs limited to enterprise repository documents.\u00a0 Using a Web Service interface to the ECM repository, like that of Formtek’s<\/a>, any of these could be created.<\/p>\n

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The concept of a web Portal as a framework for integrating information from many different sources into one consolidated view has been popular for some time.\u00a0 Portals are typically composed of pluggable user-interface components called portlets\u00a0or gadgets.\u00a0 Portlets are powered…<\/span><\/p>\n

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