Perl Bridge
Last published: 15 July 2007 | Doc for 1.0.3
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Perl Bridge Overview
Designed to run existing perl applications inside the portal
Minimal re-coding of the perl required.
Usage of Java Script might require some code modifications.
Executes perl scripts in a command shell and rewrites output HTML.
Relative URL's are converted to Portlet Actions.
Invocation from other portlets pass parameters as a session object.
Slower than running on Apache Web Server.
Communication
Portlet sees Parameters posted to itself (JSR-168 restriction)
Invokation from another portlet through a session object.
ScriptRuntimeData class can be used to pass parameters to a PHP /Perl portlet
Portlets process query arguments (GET) and Parameters (POST)