Web page communications using parameters and events
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorsSteve Burns, John G. Bellemore, Michael Gardner, Vicki Shimizu
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for communicating between components associated with a web page and for communicating between a web page and a service is provided. According to one approach, page designers configure components associated with a particular page to use particular values by mapping parameters associated with the page to parameters associated with components of that page. According to one approach, an event is generated when a user manipulates a component associated with a page. A mapping is inspected to determine that the event is mapped to an action and the action is performed.
Claims46
A method of rendering a page, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
- establishing a page parameter for the page;
- mapping the page parameter to a portlet parameter associated with a component of the page;
- and
- in response to receiving a request to display the page, performing the steps of
- inspecting a mapping to determine that the page parameter is mapped to the portlet parameter;
- passing a value associated with the page parameter as a value of the portlet parameter to a routine responsible for rendering the component;
- and
- the routine generating the component based upon the value associated with the portlet parameter.
A method of causing an action to be performed, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
- in response to a user manipulating a component associated with a page, causing logic associated with the page to generate a particular event;
- passing data that represents the particular event to the logic associated with the page;
- the logic associated with the component inspecting mapping data that maps events to actions;
- determining, based on the mapping data, an action to perform in response to the particular event;
- and
- causing the action to be performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.