- English
- EspañolTechnically, a portal is a container of resources and functionality that can be made available to end users through views. These portal are called desktops in WebLogic Portal.
Benefits to the users:
- Aggregation – From a simple page user can gradually get a page with multiple content and applications.
- Customization – The user determines how the portal looks and feels.
- Personalization – Specific content according to the user’s interests and needs.
- Organization – The user can arrange the content and applications to make better sense of the information.
- Integration – The user can work with multiple applications and content sources in a unified fashion.
Portals typical functionality:
- Search – Enterprise and web-based search facilities
- Content Management – Creation, management, and delivery of content
- Content Repurposing – Including content from multiple disparate data sources
Frequently, portals also include the following features and benefits:
- Workflow – Business process management
- Single Sign-On – Allows users to log on once for all applications within the portal
For Weblogic Portal, you usually create the parts of a portal using Workshop (WebLogic IDE) and then you assemble it into a desktop using the WebLogic Portal Administration Console (WPAC). When you create a new portal using the WPAC, you are really creating an empty portal to hold different versions of the portal (desktops) that can be targeted to specific users.
It is the desktops to which you add the portal resources and navigation such as books, pages, and portlets that make a dynamic portal.
The next step is to complete the following tutorial:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13155_01/wlp/docs103/tutorials/index.html
