[Zope3-Users] How to render PageTemplate manually?

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 05 January 2006 08:28, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
> PS: note that "viewlets" are known outside the Zope3 world as being
> small tutorial movies:
> http://psptips.com/6/viewlets/
> http://www.pmwdc.com/skies/
> http://www.geek.com/tipstrix/qarbon/
> http://www.djdenham.com/Basic_Windows.htm
> http://www.datacad.com/support/bulletin/Viewlets/viewlets.htm

Viewlets in our case are a wordplay on the term "view", because they are 
sub-views or view fragments. In any case, the meaning of viewlets in both 
settings is very different and thus hard to confuse.


> I wonder why "portlets" are called "viewlets" in Zope3.

Because viewlets do not fulfill all the requirements of a portlet. Portlets 
have to provide very specific user interactions, which viewlets do not 
promise. For example, portlets must be able to be minimized, selectively be 
removed, be fully self-contained and sharable across servers.

The reason we should not use the term portlet lightly is because we are 
working in the same industry, Content Management. People from the Java world 
have (rightfully) very specific expectations of portlets.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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