- Portal
- Powerful website
- Single Point of access- Applications, Info in a unified interface
- Each app has ints own window-Portlet,
- Single browser window can contain many portlets
- WebLogic Portals
- Powerful portals can be quickly created independant of Application
- Weblogic workshop
- Weblogic portal framework
- tools
- Anatomy of a Portal
- Resource collection assembled in different views- Desktops
- Desktop- user view of a portal
- Portal can have several desktops
- Properties of a Portal Desktop
- Desktop look and feel
- Skins : graphics, style and javascrip
- <>Skeletons: Physical boundary rendering of all component
3. Top Level Book, menus, themes: -Initial navigation style
4. Pages and Books and Menu Themes-naviagble containers for organizing portlets 5. Layout and Placeholders: Book and portlet positioning on pages- XML file
6. Portlets and Themes- Containers that surface contents and applications in a desktop
7. Property Editor Window
- Multiple portals and desktops in a Single application
- Security-Delegated administration and Entitlements
- Dynamic configurable polices-delegated administration
- Customizable content
- Weblogic Portal tools and Services
- Multichannel support-fast flexible development for mobile devices
- Content Management
- Interaction Management-Track User behavior
- Search-buily in Search- File Systems, HTTP and ODBC searches
- Collaboration-My Mail, My tasklist, My Calendar, My Contacts Discussion forums
- My Yahoo! enterprize edition Portlets: Headline news, Company news, Stock Portfolio, Market Sumary, Weather, Sports, Maps, Travel Notepad, PAckage tracker,etc.
- Prebuilt Java Controls -Add Java code for authentication,user creation,property set management
- Weblogic Portal Visitor tools-Customizable portal desktops
- Commerce
- APIs
- Open Standards Support
- Portal Development Lifecycle:
- Development
- Administration
- Entitlements
http://e-docs.bea.com/wlp/docs81/overview/overview_wlp.html#998960
http://e-docs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/doc/en/core/index.html