Preface

This guide provides a starting point for portal development projects. It introduces portals and portal use cases at a high level, describes how to pick the best development approach, and discusses the kinds of development tasks you'll need to plan for.

Audience

This document is intended for developers, application specialists, and advanced knowledge workers who plan and build portals. For a complete description of these roles, and other WebCenter Portal personas, refer to Section 1.4, "Building an Oracle WebCenter Portal Team: Who's Who?"

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