All,
When lookin at Liferay, it is clear that using Portlets is one of the strong points of Liferay. When looking at a different approach, you quickly see the term 'WOA (Web Oriented Architecture', which basically boils down to SOA (over HTTP) using REST instead of SOAP.
If I understand it correctly, this is perfectly possible using AlloyUI (Liferay-AUI), the Javascript framework used by Liferay, using Ajax calls. I also see succesfull attemps using Angular.js in portlets. However, when looking at the wiki page of Enterprise Portal Vendors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enterprise_portal_vendors) , WOA is not listed as interfacing option for Liferay.
This probably means that my definitions of WOA are wrong, my understanding of the use of those Javascript frameworks are incomplete, something else, ....
Anyone can explain where I am missing something?
Thanks in advance! Barry
