Perusing a Portlet

Good news: the access problems have been resolved. Phew.

Now, on to a topic I love to discuss, the My Downloads portlet.

Like most portals, My Sun Connection is made up of portlets, a nifty way to organize and display information in your Web browser. The My Downloads portlet is a great example of aggregating useful information in one place.

Plus, it's highly interactive -- asynchronous JavaScript with XML, or AJAX, makes this possible.

The technology is cool, but what it lets you do is more important. You can quickly scan forums, blogs, and links to related Web pages for your Sun products without having to wait for page reloads:

Neat, huh? Saving time is good.

Next, we need to make sure the content displayed is what you need to get your job done successfully. We're working on improvements (stay tuned), and we'd love to hear your ideas and suggestions, too.