22.2 Understanding Events

An event is something that happens when a link or button is clicked in a portlet. A portlet's events are specified in the file provider.xml. When a portlet (with events) is placed on an Oracle Portal page, the page designer can choose what happens when the event occurs. The options are:

• Go to another page, and optionally pass values to that page's parameters.

• Redisplay the current page.

For information on setting up a portlet event handler for your portlets, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Portal available on the Oracle Portal documentation page of the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/documentation.html.