BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 with Service Pack 4 |
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BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 provides enterprise portal infrastructure for streamlined portal development. This framework includes a rich, graphical, environment for developing portals as well as browser-based assembly tools for business experts. BEA WebLogic Portal simplifies the production and management of custom-fit portals, allowing you to leverage a shared services environment to roll out changes with minimal complexity and effort. This Web site contains documentation for all versions of WebLogic Portal 8.1 and is updated on an ongoing basis.
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Portal development involves creating all the resources and functionality for your application, then surfacing that application in a flexible, powerful user interface. Choose from the following topics to learn more about portal development.
Portal Design Portal Design docs contain information relevant to the design phase of portal development. These articles include concepts and best practices that will ensure a smooth portal experience. We recommend that you become familiar with these documents before attemtping to build your first portal.
Portal Framework Portal framework docs describe the portal rendering framework and provide steps for creating portal user interfaces.
WSRP Support WSRP support docs show you how to develop and use federated "plug & play" portlets that are compliant with the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard.
Portlets Portlet docs show you how to build portlets, reuse portlets from the portlet library, use the collaboration portlets, and communicate between portlets.
Interaction Management Interaction management docs show you how to build personalization with content selectors, placeholders, campaigns, and other features.
Controls Controls docs show you how to add predefined Java functionality of common tasks to your page flows and Web services applications using portal controls.
Production Operations Production operations include setting up a team development environment, configuring a portal cluster, deploying and propagating application updates to a production environment, and moving portal assets back and forth between development and staging environments.
Security Security docs provide guidance on securing your portal applications.
Performance Tuning/Capacity Planning Performance tuning docs help you increase the speed of your portal applications, and capacity planning docs help you plan your hardware needs for the amount of traffic you anticipate.
Internationalization Internationalization docs provide guidance on building portals that support multiple languages and multi-byte environments.
Reference Reference docs include Javadoc for WebLogic Portal and partner APIs, and descriptions of JSP tags.
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Portal administration involves: assembling portals, creating desktops; managing content, business logic, users, search capabilities, and databases; rebranding the WebLogic Administration Portal; and maintaining the overall portal environment. Choose from the following topics to learn more about portal administration.
Portal Management The portal management docs show you how to build and manage portals and portal resources in the WebLogic Administration Portal.
Content Management The content management docs show you how to add and manage content in BEA's Virtual Content Repository, whether your content is stored in an external BEA-compatible repository or in a BEA repository.
User Management The user management docs show you how to manage the users who will visit and manage your portal applications, including setting up unified user profiles, anonymous tracked users, delegated administration, and visitor entitlements.
Search Management The search management docs show you how to use and manage search functionality in your portals.
Security The security docs show you how to use multiple authentication providers in your portal applications.
Database Administration The database administration docs show you how to configure your 8.1-compatible database. The docs also provide descriptions of the database tables used in your portal applications, DDL modules, and database scripts.
Visitor Tools The visitor tools docs describe how to use WebLogic Portal's visitor tools to customize the portals you create.
Included third-party technologies are products or technologies that are included in the WebLogic Portal installation.
Complementary BEA products are pre-integrated to WebLogic Portal and are available separately from BEA.
Accessibility Accessibility docs describe the product features that support users with disabilities.
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