Welcome to portal development. This section of the help system provides overview
information, reference topics, and procedures that guide you through the portal
development process using the WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions.
The WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions provide more than a powerful, flexible,
extensible framework for surfacing applications in portals. They also provide
personalization, campaign, and behavior tracking services, a rules engine,
JSP tags, integration services, intelligent administration, reusable samples,
and a complete API.
Choose from the following subsections to learn more about WebLogic Portal,
explore the power of the product with tutorials and samples, start developing
or integrating your own portal applications, or access reference information.
Overview
Introduces portals and the WebLogic Portal architecture and
provides guidance on getting started with WebLogic Portal.
Developing
Portal Applications
Provides instructions on adding portal functionality to existing
applications, developing new portal applications, and building portlets. This
section includes information on integrating Web applications, struts applications,
and Web services; building Web, JSP, Java Page Flow, and commerce applications;
and creating portlets.
Developing
Personalized Applications
Provides instructions for adding personalization and campaigns
to your portal applications.
Developing Portal User
Interfaces
Describes the WebLogic Portal user interface framework and
provides instructions for creating a portal user interface and developing
user interface resources. This section also provides guidance on building
user interfaces to address accessibility guidelines.
Assembling Portal
Applications
Provides instructions for assembling portals with existing
portal resources, such as creating a portal file, adding books and pages to
desktops, changing page layouts, changing the look & feel, and changing
the shell.
Securing Portal
Applications
Describes the security touch points in a portal development
scenario and provides links to instructions that relate to those touch points.
This section also describes how WebLogic Portal implements the WebLogic Server
security service provider interface (SSPI).
Deploying
Portal Applications (edocs)
Provides detailed information and best practices for deploying
portal applications.
Portal Reference
Includes Javadoc for WebLogic Portal and partner APIs, a
WebLogic Portal JSP tag reference, WebLogic Portal samples, and other reference
information.
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