The document discusses what a portal is and provides examples. It defines a web portal, intranet portal, and enterprise portal. It explains that a portal is a framework that integrates information, applications, and processes across organizational boundaries through a unified access point. A portal provides features like personalization, integration, security, and aggregation of information from various sources. The document aims to clarify that a portal does not need to be heavyweight and can be implemented with lightweight frameworks. It encourages understanding the purpose and needed features before implementation.

1. What is a portal?

2. Portal is a former settlement in Fresno County, California.

4. Portal is a village in Burke County, North Dakota in the United States.

6. Portal is a town in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States.

8. It depends who you ask!
What is a portal?

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Information Portals
Content Management Portals
Application Centric Portals
Content Centric Portals
Vertical Enterprise Portals
Horizontal Enterprise Portals

10. Web portal is a website that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform
way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information.
Often, the user can configure which ones to display.
Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more
easily, and through personalized views.
Enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across
organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based
user interface and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific
portlets.

11. Web portal is a website that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform
way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information.
Often, the user can configure which ones to display.
Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more
easily, and through personalized views.
Enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across
organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based
user interface and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific
portlets.

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What will you build?

13. Web portal is a website that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform
way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information.
Often, the user can configure which ones to display.
Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications and information more
easily, and through personalized views.
Enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across
organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based
user interface and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific
portlets.
Is your web application expected to have these features:
any of

14. If so, why not start with a portal next time?

15. Step 1:
Understand the difference between product, platform and framework
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16. What is this?

17. Who said it's a screenshot of iOS?

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What is this?

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Who said it's a phone?

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What is this?

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Who said it's Nexus One?

22. Product
1. It is all you need because
a) we did the research
b) we even let you customize it
2. If you need more, see 1 above
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sometimes

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Framework
1. No matter what you build, it is yours
2. It is whatever you want it to be
make

24. Platform
1. Gives you the most common tools
2. Allows you to build even more
everyone

25. Got it! So a portal is actually a . . .

26. Portlet ContainerPortlet Container Portlet APIPortlet API Portlet TLDPortlet TLD WSRPWSRPFramework

27. Portlet ContainerPortlet Container Portlet APIPortlet API Portlet TLDPortlet TLD WSRPWSRP
JSFJSFSpring Portlet MVCSpring Portlet MVC VaadinVaadin Liferay MVCLiferay MVC
YUIYUIAlloy UIAlloy UI jQueryjQuery GWTGWT
Framework

28. Portlet ContainerPortlet Container Portlet APIPortlet API Portlet TLDPortlet TLD WSRPWSRP
JSFJSFSpring Portlet MVCSpring Portlet MVC VaadinVaadin Liferay MVCLiferay MVC
YUIYUIAlloy UIAlloy UI jQueryjQuery GWTGWT
VirtualizationVirtualization CachingCaching IndexingIndexing ClusteringClustering
LayoutsLayoutsThemesThemes HooksHooks ExtensionsExtensions
User ProfilesUser Profiles PermissionsPermissions User Hierarchy/LDAPUser Hierarchy/LDAP SSO/OpenID/OAuthSSO/OpenID/OAuth
AssetsAssets EventsEvents CategorizationCategorization User FeedbackUser Feedback
TemplatesTemplates ScriptingScripting WorkflowWorkflow Message BusMessage Bus
Audit LogsAudit Logs MonitoringMonitoring Import/ExportImport/Export VersioningVersioning
Web ServicesWeb Services REST ServicesREST Services WebDAVWebDAV Mobile DevicesMobile Devices
Framework
Platform

29. Portlet ContainerPortlet Container Portlet APIPortlet API Portlet TLDPortlet TLD WSRPWSRP
JSFJSFSpring Portlet MVCSpring Portlet MVC VaadinVaadin Liferay MVCLiferay MVC
YUIYUIAlloy UIAlloy UI jQueryjQuery GWTGWT
VirtualizationVirtualization CachingCaching IndexingIndexing ClusteringClustering
LayoutsLayoutsThemesThemes HooksHooks ExtensionsExtensions
User ProfilesUser Profiles PermissionsPermissions
AssetsAssets EventsEvents CategorizationCategorization User FeedbackUser Feedback
TemplatesTemplates ScriptingScripting WorkflowWorkflow Message BusMessage Bus
Audit LogsAudit Logs MonitoringMonitoring Import/ExportImport/Export VersioningVersioning
Web ServicesWeb Services REST ServicesREST Services WebDAVWebDAV Mobile DevicesMobile Devices
Framework
Platform
User Hierarchy/LDAPUser Hierarchy/LDAP SSO/OpenID/OAuthSSO/OpenID/OAuth

30. Portlet ContainerPortlet Container Portlet APIPortlet API Portlet TLDPortlet TLD WSRPWSRP
JSFJSFSpring Portlet MVCSpring Portlet MVC VaadinVaadin Liferay MVCLiferay MVC
YUIYUIAlloy UIAlloy UI jQueryjQuery GWTGWT
VirtualizationVirtualization CachingCaching IndexingIndexing ClusteringClustering
LayoutsLayoutsThemesThemes HooksHooks ExtensionsExtensions
User ProfilesUser Profiles PermissionsPermissions
AssetsAssets EventsEvents CategorizationCategorization User FeedbackUser Feedback
TemplatesTemplates ScriptingScripting WorkflowWorkflow Message BusMessage Bus
Audit LogsAudit Logs MonitoringMonitoring Import/ExportImport/Export VersioningVersioning
Web ServicesWeb Services REST ServicesREST Services WebDAVWebDAV Mobile DevicesMobile Devices
Liferay Social OfficeLiferay Social Office
Framework
Platform
Product
User Hierarchy/LDAPUser Hierarchy/LDAP SSO/OpenID/OAuthSSO/OpenID/OAuth

31. Step 2:
Clear up with the prejudice that portals are heavyweight and complicated!
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32. public class MainApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld ();
. . .
}
}
public class MainApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld ();
. . .
}
}
How many times you needed this:

33. <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
<bean id="helloWorld" class="com.tutorialspoint.HelloWorld">
<property name="message" value="Hello World!"/>
</bean>
</beans>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
<bean id="helloWorld" class="com.tutorialspoint.HelloWorld">
<property name="message" value="Hello World!"/>
</bean>
</beans>
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
public class MainApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml");
HelloWorld obj = (HelloWorld) context.getBean("helloWorld");
. . .
}
}
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
public class MainApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml");
HelloWorld obj = (HelloWorld) context.getBean("helloWorld");
. . .
}
}
public class MainApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld ();
. . .
}
}
public class MainApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld ();
. . .
}
}
How many times you needed this:
and ended up writing these:

34. Component container is heavyweight and complicated!

35. ATG NucleusATG Nucleus
Component container is heavyweight and complicated!

36. PicoContainerPicoContainerATG NucleusATG Nucleus
Component container is heavyweight and complicated!
doesn't have to be
X

37. PicoContainerPicoContainerSpring FrameworkSpring FrameworkATG NucleusATG Nucleus
Component container is heavyweight and complicated!
doesn't have to be
X

38. Apache PlutoApache PlutoLiferayLiferay
OracleOracle
WebcenteerWebcenteer
A portal doesn't have to be heavyweight and complicated !

39. Step 3:
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
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46. http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/liferay-s-architecture-the-beginning-of-a-blog-series

47. http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/liferay-s-architecture-the-beginning-of-a-blog-series
Start with the features you really need

48. http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/liferay-s-architecture-the-beginning-of-a-blog-series
Start with the features you really need
Add more gradually as new needs appear

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Let me show you

50. And finally:
Remember, you are not alone!
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