JSF portlet application - *not much than JSF web application*

[ankur rathi]

I know little about both JSF and portlet.

What's the difference (special) in JSF portlet application compare to JSF web application?

The things I noticed are:

You have a portlet.xml file, in that you write:

    
<portlet-class>com.ibm.faces.portlet.FacesPortlet</portlet-class>
<init-param>
 <name>com.ibm.faces.portlet.page.view</name>
 <value>/view.jsp</value>
</init-param>
 
<!-- other modes -->
 
Note: using �JSR 168 Portlet API� in IBM RSA (Rational Software Architect).

You even don't specify the location of faces-config.xml file as we do in case of struts portlet application in portlet.xml:

<init-param>
 <name>config</name>
 <value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</value>
</init-param> 

Also you don't need any kind of mapping in web.xml to get to the *view.jsp* as it is done in view mode of portlet in portlet.xml.

My question is, what more we can do with JSF portlet application?

Thanks!