You can integrate, or import, an existing Web application into an enterprise application in WebLogic Workshop. Once in WebLogic Workshop, you can quickly and easily give the Web application a portal user interface, add personalization and campaign functionality to it, and take advantage of WebLogic Portal's content and user management services.
If you want to be able to create portlets out of resources in your Web application, your Web application must have one of the following types of resources out of which to create portlets. If you do not have any of these types of resources at the time you integrate your Web application into WebLogic Workshop, you can create them after you integrate:
To integrate an existing Web application into WebLogic Workshop:
Your Web application is now a portal Web project. You can give it a portal interface, add portal functionality, and build portlets (assuming you have one of the resources types listed at the beginning of this topic).