Oracle WebCenter Portal Framework is a modern portal framework that speeds delivery of portals and websites and extends the capabilities of traditional enterprise portals. The Framework enables both developers and business users to collaboratively build out the exact portal solution required for internet, extranet, intranet, or social computing applications. A rich array of features and services enable you to:

• Build and consume standards-based portlets.
  
  
• Integrate content from many different content stores through standard interfaces and the Content Presenter task flow.
  
  
• Build pages that are consistent in structure, layout, and look and feel.
  
  
• Build navigation components to facilitate enterprise-wide reuse as well as deliver dynamic query and content-based navigation.
  
  
• Apply themes and skins to change the application's appearance without changing the portal pages themselves.
  
  
• Apply delegated security policies to a hierarchy of portal pages and other navigable elements, like portlets and content.
  
  
• Make the application customizable at runtime, empowering end users to edit application pages according to their requirements using Oracle Composer.
  
  
• Enable portal developers to use popular web toolkits, like Dojo, jQuery, or their favorite JavaScript frameworks.
  
  
• Personalize portal pages with Oracle WebCenter Personalization.
  
  
• Add social networking and personal productivity services to your portal with WebCenter services.
  
  
• Leverage productivity tools to perform rapid, iterative development of portal components.
  

These features are discussed in more detail on the following pages.