What is an externally published portlet?

An externally published portlet is a portlet that has been explicitly made available for users to add to their Java Server Pages (JSPs). For information about including portlets in JSPs, see Integrating Java Server Pages with Oracle9iAS Portal on the Oracle Technology Network.

To create externally published portlets in a page group, the JSP access page group setting must be enabled and an access key must have been specified to ensure secure access to those portlets.

Note: If JSP access is enabled for a page group, users can also add portlet instances from any standard page within that page group to their JSPs. Any customizations made on the portlet instance in the standard page are automatically reflected in the JSP. This means that you do not have to maintain separate portlets for standard pages and JSPs. However, if a user is not aware that a particular portlet instance is being used in a JSP, and removes it from the standard page, it will no longer be displayed on the JSP.