System for dynamically integrating remote portlets into portals

A content provider system comprising:

• at least one locally accessible content portlet;
• at least an interface component for establishing communication via a network with a portal server;
• a publishing component for creating service descriptions of said locally accessible content portlets, storing the service descriptions in a portlet registry implemented on a storage device, and publishing said service descriptions into a UDDI;
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• a SOAP/HTTP communication protocol component for establishing communication between said content provider and said portal server for execution of said local content portlet at said content provider via said portal server by means of finding and binding of said service description of said content portlet in said UDDI by said portal server and establishing communication and execution of said content portlet using access information of said service description for accessing said content portlet, wherein said communication is without local installation of portlet code of the at least one remote portlet onto the portal server.

A portal server comprising:

• an interface component for establishing communication via network with a content provider;
• a finding and binding component for selecting service descriptions of content portlets in a central registry and binding said content portlets by using said service descriptions for accessing said remote portlets, wherein said service descriptions of said content portlets are created and stored on a portlet registry implemented on a storage device and published into a UDDI by said content provider;
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• a SOAP/HTTP communication protocol component for establishing communication between said portal server and said content provider for execution of said content portlet installed at said content provider, wherein said communication is without local installation of portlet code of the remote portlet onto the portal server.