In this step, you will start the development environment for building a portal.
The tasks in this step are:
Open the Sample Portal Application
The portal application you open contains all the necessary portal resources to complete the tutorial. In Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) terms, this application is an enterprise application that contains Web applications and related resources. Each Web application can contain multiple portals.
To develop portals and portal applications in WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Server must be running on your development machine. For this tutorial, you will start the domain server used by the WebLogic Portal samples. The portalApp application you opened in the previous step contains all the necessary server configuration settings. To start WebLogic Server: