Integrating web portlet technologies with caGrid to enable rapid application development: the CRC Patient Study Calendar.

: The caGrid middleware provides an extensible platform for the integration of heterogeneous data sources and services; such as those found in geographically distributed research consortia. We describe an architectural approach to the integration of web portlet technologies with caGrid in order to facilitate the rapid development of highly usable presentation models for grid-based data sources and services, using the development of a patient study calendar for the CLL Research Consortium as a motivating use case.