Portal Server provides an administration tag library for developing administration portlets that enable a portal to be managed from the Desktop instead of from the management console. Administrators can use this tag library to do the following:
Modify out-of-the-box administration portlets
Develop portlets with new administration functionality
Support provider management, and portlet and WSRP management tasks
Create and administer channels that are based on JSPProvider
Write custom administration portlets with a custom user interface
Write administrative portlets to manage any custom channel
Administrators can use administration portlets to grant delegated administration status to other users, called delegated administrators. Portal Server provides a sample set of administration portlets that can be used to design a basic Desktop for delegated administrators.
For more information, see Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Developer Sample Guide and Tag Library for Delegated Administration.