After you integrate an existing application
into WebLogic Workshop and create a portal application,
you can use the WebLogic Portal tools, services, and framework to add powerful
features to your application and give it portal user interface.
This topic highlights the tools and services you can use to add WebLogic
Portal functionality to your applications.
Portal User Interface Framework
WebLogic Portal's flexible, powerful framework lets you create
portal interfaces independently of your application logic or Web pages, and
WebLogic Portal's integration into WebLogic Workshop lets you surface the
applications and Web services you develop in WebLogic Workshop seamlessly
and easily in your portal interfaces.
Reusable Sample Portlets
WebLogic Portal provides many sample portlets that you can
reuse in your portal applications.
Personalization and Campaigns
WebLogic Portal provides integrated tools in WebLogic Workshop
and the WebLogic Administration Portal for adding personalization and campaigns
to your portal applications
Mobile Device Support
WebLogic Portal includes a multichannel framework for fast,
flexible development of portals for mobile devices. You can develop portals
that simultaneously serve multiple devices.
Content Management
BEA's Virtual Content Repository lets you combine and manage
multiple BEA-compatible content management systems in a single interface.
Any content in the Virtual Content Repository can be used in your portals.
WebLogic Portal also provides a content repository and a reusable My Content
portlet for uploading, managing, viewing, and searching content stored in
the Virtual Content Repository.
Page
Flows
Page Flows control the navigational flow through an application
and give you the flexibility and extensibility to separate the user interface
code from navigational control and other business logic.
Portal
Controls
Built-in portal Java controls let portal developers quickly
add Java code to portal applications for functionality such as user creation,
authentication, and property set management.
Commerce
You can build robust commerce applications in portals by
using WebLogic Portal's commerce API, JSP tags, discount service, and catalog
management service.
JSP Tags
WebLogic Portal provides a full library of JSP tags to help
you with user and group management, content management, reliable URL generation
to portal resources across different servers, internationalization, and other
development tasks.
WebLogic Portal
API
WebLogic Portal provides a full Java API for application
development.