Chapter 10. Mobile Devices and Portlet Bridges

Websites or WAP sites are made up of many pages. Each page consists of a set of portlets with a specific look-and-feel, specified by themes. Moreover, all of the portlets in a page are arranged using layout templates. The websites could be viewed in Web or WAP browsers (mobile devices, such as Smartphones and tablets). The mobile device detectors provide mobile device support and detection within portal infrastructure.

Generally speaking, a theme is a user interface design that makes the portal more user-friendly and visually pleasing. The portal provides layout templates in order to describe how various columns and rows are arranged to display portlets. It also provides themes that can be used to customize the overall look-and-feel of websites, WAP sites, and pages. Basically, themes control the whole look-and-feel of the pages generated in the portal, using CSS, images, JavaScript, HTML tags, Velocity, and/or FreeMarker templates.

In addition...