Using the Portal Server Administration Tag Library and Portlets

Portal Server provides an administration tag library for developing administration portlets that enable a portal to be managed from the Desktop instead of from the management console. Administrators can use this tag library to do the following:

• Modify out-of-the-box administration portlets

• Develop portlets with new administration functionality

• Support user management, provider management, and portlet and WSRP management tasks

• Create and administer channels that are based on JSPProvider

• Write custom administration portlets with a custom user interface

• Write administrative portlets to manage any custom channel

Administrators can use administration portlets to grant delegated administration status to other users, called delegated administrators. Portal Server provides a sample set of administration portlets that can be used to design a basic Desktop for delegated administrators.

For more information, see Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Developer Sample Guide and Tag Library for Delegated Administration.