ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the basic portal concepts, elements of portal framework, and development aspects of portal. On the development side of things, there are portal standards, application programming interfaces (APIs), and eco-system elements, which will be needed while developing portal solution. The chapter also looks at the main portal server components and its role in the portal solution. Portal server gives the administrators and delegated administrators the facility to build portal pages and perform various administration activities. It has also strong authentication features and also can be used for the user access management system. Portal ecosystem mainly consists of portal container and security services, application server services and integration services with enterprise interfaces. For Java-based portals, it is easy to understand the portal concepts from standard servlet model. It also throws insights into motivation and necessity for portlet based development. The chapter explores various portal elements such as portal API and core portal objects.
