Timeout portlet rendering for slow or non responsive portlets ?

Question

Hi,
We have a requirement to implement a timeout for portlet rendering on a
portal if the rendering of any of the portlets exceed a specified time
interval (configurable).
For example if a portlet would normally take 200ms to render, if during
the render phase that time limit is exceeded then the content of the
portlet should not rendered but instead an error message is displayed.
The idea behind this is to prevent problems with a single portlet
stopping the rendering of the portal page itself. If for example a
portlet uses a database but the response time for that DB is slow we do
not want this to hold up the render of the entire portal page.
Can anyone recommend how might be the best way to implement this
functionality in 8.1 ?. Furthermore if there is no mechanism to do this
in 8.1 are there any roadmap plans to implement this kind of feature in
the product at any point in the future in an SP or major release ??.
The current portal that we are migrating uses Watchdog to implement this
functionality currently and thus we need to be able to imitate this
during the migration to 8.1.
TIA
Martin

Answer 1

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