Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for dynamically integrating software resources (such as web services and other back-end software resources) using the services of a content framework (such as a portal platform). A portlet model is leveraged to allow programmatic portlets to serve as proxies for web services, thereby extending portlets beyond their traditional visual role. A deployment interface and a system interface are described for these portlet proxies. The deployment interface is used for composing new web services, and a composition tool is described. The system interface allows for run-time management of the web services by the portal platform. The service provider for a particular function may be bound to the portlet proxy at development time or at run-time.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable code for translating an input document into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) dialect which is well-formed, such that automated, dynamically-selected transformations (such as those that will indicate a user's current context) can be applied to the document. The new XML dialect indicates dynamically-selected document transformations that are desired. Further, a novel technique is provided for dynamically generating a Document Type Definition (DTD) to describe the new XML dialect, so that the XML document created in this dialect can subsequently be processed by an XML parser. In the preferred embodiment, the desired transformations account for a user's dynamic context, and this information is represented by the dynamically-generated XML dialect.