Pagelets in adaptive tags in non-portal reverse proxy

1. A reverse proxy server adapted to:

receive a user request for a web application;

responsive to the user request, obtain web application code for a first web application;

interpret a tag in the first web application to indicate a pagelet web application;

obtain a set of roles used by the pagelet web application;

based on the roles used by the pagelet web application, determine that the requesting user is authorized to access the pagelet application;

obtain pagelet web application code from the pagelet web application;

produce a combined presentation of the first web application and the pagelet web application; and

provide the combined presentation of the first web application and the pagelet web application to the requesting user.

2. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , further adapted to combine the first web application and a second pagelet web application.

3. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , wherein a central role repository is maintained for the web applications.

4. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , further adapted to send a user role of the requesting user to the web applications in an HTTP header so that the web application need not do an independent mapping of the user to a role.

5. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , wherein the tag includes a namespace.

6. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , wherein the tag includes an ID.

7. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , further adapted to:

receive a user request for a second web application;

obtain web application code for the second web application;

interpret a tag in the second web application to indicate a non pagelet web application;

obtain non pagelet web application code from the non pagelet web application; and

produce a combined presentation of the second web application and the non pagelet web application; and

provide the combined presentation of the second web application and the non pagelet web application to the requesting user.

8. The reverse proxy server of claim 7 , further adapted to combine the first web application and a second pagelet web applications application.

9. The reverse proxy server of claim 7 , wherein the user role is sent to the web applications in an HTTP header so that the web application need not do an independent mapping of the user to a role.

10. The reverse proxy server of claim 7 , wherein the tag includes a namespace.

11. The reverse proxy server of claim 7 , wherein the tag includes an ID.

12. The reverse proxy server of claim 1 , wherein the reverse proxy server provides HTML of the combined presentation to a user browser.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of providing HTML of the combined presentation to a user browser.

14. A method comprising:

receiving a user request for a web application at a reverse proxy server;

responsive to the user request, obtaining web application code for a first web application;

interpreting a tag in the first web application to indicate a pagelet web application;

obtaining a set of rules used by the pagelet web application;

based on the roles used by the pagelet web application, determining that the requesting user is authorized to access the pagelet application;

obtaining pagelet web application code from the pagelet web application;

producing a combined presentation of the first web application and the pagelet web application; and

providing the combined presentation of the first web application and the pagelet web application to the requesting user.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

receiving a user request for a second web application;

obtaining web application code for the second web application;

interpreting a tag in the second web application to indicate a non pagelet web application;

obtaining non pagelet web application code from the non pagelet web application;

producing a combined presentation of the second web application and the non pagelet web application; and

providing the combined presentation of the second web application and the non pagelet web application to the requesting user.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising combining the first web application and a second pagelet web application.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the user role is sent to the web applications in an HTTP header so that the web application need not do an independent mapping of the user to a role.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the tag includes a namespace.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein the tag includes an ID.

20. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:

sending a user role of the requesting user to the web applications in an HTTP header so that the web application need not do an independent mapping of the user to a role.

21. The method server of claim 14 , further comprising combining the first web application and a second pagelet web application.

22. The method of claim 14 , further comprising maintaining a central role repository for the web applications.

23. The method of claim 14 , wherein the tag includes a namespace.

24. The method of claim 14 , wherein the tag includes an ID.

25. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that cause a processor to:

receive a user request for web application;

responsive to the user request, obtain web application code for a first web application;

interpret a tag in the first web application to indicate a pagelet web application;

obtain a set of rules used by the pagelet web application;

based on the roles used by the pagelet web application, determine that the requesting user is authorized to access the pagelet application;

obtain pagelet web application code from the pagelet web application;

produce a combined presentation of the first web application and the pagelet web application; and

provide the combined presentation of the first web application and the pagelet web application to the requesting user.

26. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , said instructions further causing the processor to:

receive a user request for a second web application;

obtain web application code for the second web application;

interpret a tag in the second web application to indicate a non pagelet web application;

obtain non pagelet web application code from the non pagelet web application;

produce a combined presentation of the second web application and the non pagelet web application; and

provide the combined presentation of the second web application and the non pagelet web application to the requesting user.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 26 , said instructions further causing the processor to combine the first web application and a second pagelet web application.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 26 , wherein the user role is sent to the web applications in an HTTP header so that the web application need not do an independent mapping of the user to a role.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 26 , wherein the tag includes a namespace.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 26 , wherein the tag includes an ID.

31. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , said instructions further causing the processor to send a user role of the requesting user to the web applications in an HTTP header so that the web application need not do an independent mapping of the user to a role.

32. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , said instructions further causing the processor to combine the first web application and a second pagelet web application.

33. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , said instructions further causing the processor to maintain a central role repository for the web applications.

34. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , wherein the tag includes a namespace.

35. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , wherein the tag includes an ID.

36. The computer readable medium of claim 25 , said instructions further causing the processor to provide HTML of the combined presentation to a user browser.