What is Portal ?
Portal is a web based application that commonly provides -
- A framework to build portal components and extensions.
- A personalized view for each user.
- Give users the ability to customize certain aspects of the site.
- Provides a single point of access to internal and external Web applications.
- Aggregates content from disparate sources.
- Provides Authentication and Authorization.
- Portal pages may have different set of portlets.
- Ability to Create content for different users.
- Support for multiple devices.
- Personalization - The ability to customize content to specific users / user groups based on their role.
- Collaboration - Tools that allow e-mail, instant messaging, discussions forums, wikis, blogs, team rooms, and web conferencing.
- Workflow - Integration of legacy and new applications.
- Search and categorize - Categorizing repositories of content and searching them for relevant content.
- Security - Provide authentication and role-based access control to portal resources.
- SSO - provide common access mechanism for users to a range of applications.
- Integration - Metadata sharing, XML, connectors standards, and Enterprise Application Integration using adaptors or web services.
- Content Management - Manage the enterprise content using Portal: upload content, route content for review and approval, view and perform bulk actions, configure a search experience, and integrate content from disparate sources.
- Portal (The sum of all the portal pages in a site)
- Portlets (The workhorse, everything depends on it)
- Page (Contains the Portlet)
- Layout (Broad structure of a page)
- Themes (Makes you feel you are still in the same portal )
- Skins (As the name suggests, it surrounds a Portlet)
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