The Portlet Bridge is an adapter for a web framework to the portlet container runtime. It works ideally with framework that does not expose the servlet container with the limited support for the full portlet API.

The JavaTM Specification Request 168 Portlet Specification (JSR 168) standardizes how components for portal servers are developed. This standard has industry backing from major portal server vendors. A Portlet Bridge allows you to create a JSR-168 compliant portlet with very little change on your existing web application.

For example, the JSF Bridge allows you to transparently deploy your existing JSF Applications as a Portlet Application or Web Application. For more details, see http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/PortletBridge.

The JBoss implementation of the Portlet Bridge has enhancements to support other web frameworks, such as RichFaces and Seam. For more details, see http://jboss.org/portletbridge/docs.html.