Getting Started: Portals

The Problem of Organizing Web Content

Suppose your company needs to manage a suite of different web applications: a product catalog for customers, a human resources site for employees, and an information site for business partners. The different applications need to be organized so that users can easily navigate the content and the applications need to be personalizable so that different kinds of users can access different kinds of content. Customers need to access the product catalog, but they shouldn't be allowed to browse the employee intranet.

The Portal Solution

Portals solve this problem by giving you a way to organize all your web applications and web-based content into a single web site. Portals give you a way to visually arrange different applications into a single web site. Using tabs and windows, and other navigational devices, you can arrange disparate content into a visual whole that is easy to navigate. Portals also let you personalize web content. Portal's personalization features allow you (1) to filter content depending on the characteristics of the user, (2) to make applications respond to individual patterns of use, and (3) to allow users to personalize the look and feel of the Portal.

What This Tutorial Teaches

In the following tutorial you will learn the basics of organizing and personalizing web content using Weblogic Portal. You will create a Portal that surfaces two applications: one application allows users to login into the Portal, the other application allows users to select a favorite color.

The Login Application The Favorite Color Application

You will also use Portal personalization features to remember the user's favorite color while the user is logged out of the Portal.

The tutorial is divided into three steps:

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