Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for individuals who are engaged in portal design and planning or who are already working in production environments. These include the following individuals:

• System designers and architects

• Business managers

• Portal Server installers

• Portal Server administrators

• Engineers configuring Portal Server software

This guide assumes that you are already familiar with the following topics:

• General networking fundamentals

• Your operating system

• Sun Java System Directory Server

• Sun Java System Access Manager

• Your web container, such as Sun Java System Application Server or Glassfish^TM

• Security fundamentals relating to authentication and authorization

• Basic administrative procedures for the UNIX® platform

• LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)

• Java Specification Request (JSR) 286: Portlet Specification 2.0

• Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 1.0 specification