In 2010, the team at Hippo CMS sat together in a room and decided to scrap portlet technology from our roadmap entirely. We knew portals—we had worked with them for years—and recognized that the technology was outdated and had served its purpose.
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In 2010, the team at Hippo CMS sat together in a room and decided to scrap portlet technology from our roadmap entirely. We knew portals—we had worked with them for years—and recognized that the technology was outdated and had served its purpose.
After all, portals were invented to help bring legacy applications to the web in a secure way. But nowadays more and more business applications are exposing their services as REST APIs, allowing us and others to build new interfaces on top of their existing backends. We already saw that the era of the portal was ending around 2010, so we decided to drop the technology entirely, focus on personalisation and add that into our standard web delivery stack.
