The benefits of using Dojo and Ajax in portal development
As far as IBM WebSphere Portal Server is concerned, Ajax provides numerous techniques that are extensively used by portal to manage users interactions with portlets. For instance, by the utilization of Ajax, a portal page does not need to build and include the Portlet Menu option when rendering such page. By asynchronous calls, the menu can be requested on demand, making the portal page aggregation process lighter and consequently making the rendering of the page faster.
Concerning portlet development, developers can leverage both Ajax techniques and the Dojo framework to create rich portlets that perform well and incorporate attractive Web 2.0 concepts.
