When programming for WebSphere Portal V5.1.X, and programmers coming from the traditional Web application world face the challenge: how to create Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The portal environment poses special requirements on components that need to create URLs; therefore, URL generation in the portal environment is a bit more involved. The article delves into how portal components can generate URLs using WebSphere Portal Version 5.1.0.1 System Programming Interfaces (SPIs) that go beyond what the portal JSP tags. Finally, you see how to use these SPIs in an example which implements a navigation breadcrumb trail.
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To target the action phase on a standard portlet, you need to also include the portletParameterType attribute on the tag, as in the following example.
// simple action with param
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