Part II

Development

During the development phase, you use Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse to create portlets, pages, and books. During development, you can implement federation and interportlet communication strategies. In the development stage, careful attention to best practices is crucial.

For a detailed description of the architecture phase of the portal life cycle, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Overview for Oracle WebLogic Portal.

Part II contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 4, "Understanding Portlet Development"

• Chapter 5, "Creating Portlets"

• Chapter 7, "Creating Clipper Portlets"

• Chapter 10, "Optimizing Portlet Performance"

• Chapter 12, "Configuring Local Interportlet Communication"

• Chapter 14, "Adding the Content Presenter Portlet"

• Chapter 15, "Adding a Third-Party Portlet"