A
Potal is a website that provides a single point of access to applications and
information. From an end user perspective, a portal is a web site with pages that
are organized by pages or topics and further subpages or sub topics opening in
ndividual windows that display anything from static HTML content to complex web
services. A page can contain multiple portlets, giving users access to different
information and tools in a single place. Users can also customize their view of
a portal by adding their own pages, adding portlets of their choosing, and changing
the Look & Feel of the interface. Technically
speaking, a portal is a bagful of resources and functionality that can be made
available to end users. A portal presents diverse content and applications
to users through a consistent, unified web-based interface. Portal administrators
and users can customize portals, and content can be presented based on user preferences
or rule-based personalization. Each portal is associated with a web application
that contains all of the resources required to run portals on the web. |  |