Tutorial: Building Your First Portal

This tutorial guides you through the brief process of creating a portal with working portlets. The tutorial takes about 15 minutes to complete.

Tutorial Goals

At the end of this tutorial you will have built a fully functional portal in a short time with little effort.

Tutorial Overview

The WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions include a graphical Portal Designer that lets you surface application functionality easily and quickly in a sophisticated portal interface. Sample portlets included with the WebLogic Workshop Portal Extensions provide instant, reusable functionality for a portal, as this tutorial illustrates.

Steps in This Tutorial

Step 1: Start WebLogic Workshop, Open an Application, and Start WebLogic Server — 5 minutes

In this step you start WebLogic Workshop, open the sample portal application, and start WebLogic Server.

Step 2: Create a Portal - 10 minutes

In this step you create a portal file for an existing portal project, add a page to the portal, add portlets to the pages, and view your finished portal.

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