BEA WebLogic Portal® Life Cycle - Architecture Phase
Architecture is the foundation phase of building a portal application around which the other portal phases revolve.
Architecture is the foundation phase of building a portal application around which the other portal phases revolve. In the architecture phase you define and plan the way your portal will support your business process by:
Identifying resources such as web services, portal services, Java controls, data views, remote portals, content management, and search.
Determining security needs at different points in the processes.
Designing how different parts of your processes are to be surfaced in a portal user interface.
Determining if you want to share your portal with remote portals.
Creating any necessary resources needed for your development efforts
The following guides detail architecture considerations within the portal life cycle: