What is a portal?

What is a Portal? Is it a framework, a platform or a product? Aren't all portals heavyweight and complicated? How it differs form a regular web application?

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1. What is a portal?
2. Portal is a former settlement in Fresno County, California.
4. Portal is a village in Burke County, North Dakota in the United States.
6. Portal is a town in Bulloch County, Georgia, United States.
8. It depends who you ask! What is a portal?
9. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkmabus/2250740787/ Information Portals Content Management Portals Application Centric Portals Content Centric Portals Vertical Enterprise Portals Horizontal Enterprise Portals
10. Web portal is a website that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information. Often, the user can configure which ones to display. Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more easily, and through personalized views. Enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets.
11. Web portal is a website that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information. Often, the user can configure which ones to display. Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more easily, and through personalized views. Enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets.
12. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdrephotography/8454585852/ What will you build?
13. Web portal is a website that brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information. Often, the user can configure which ones to display. Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications and information more easily, and through personalized views. Enterprise portal is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets. Is your web application expected to have these features: any of
14. If so, why not start with a portal next time?
15. Step 1: Understand the difference between product, platform and framework Photo: https://www.trinity3d.com/HDModels-Cars-Vol.-2-3D-Car-Models-with-Shaders.html
16. What is this?
17. Who said it's a screenshot of iOS?
18. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/7110353535/ What is this?
19. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/7110353535/ Who said it's a phone?
20. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/7110353535/ What is this?
21. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/7110353535/ Who said it's Nexus One?
22. Product 1. It is all you need because a) we did the research b) we even let you customize it 2. If you need more, see 1 above Photo: http://www.olloclip.com/product/ sometimes
23. Photo: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/mit-media-lab-diy-cellphone-hands-on/ Framework 1. No matter what you build, it is yours 2. It is whatever you want it to be make
24. Platform 1. Gives you the most common tools 2. Allows you to build even more everyone
25. Got it! So a portal is actually a . . .
26. Portlet Container Portlet Container Portlet API Portlet API Portlet TLD Portlet TLD WSRP WSRP Framework
27. Portlet Container Portlet Container Portlet API Portlet API Portlet TLD Portlet TLD WSRP WSRP JSF JSF Spring Portlet MVC Spring Portlet MVC Vaadin Vaadin Liferay MVC Liferay MVC YUI YUI Alloy UI Alloy UI jQuery jQuery GWT GWT Framework
28. Portlet Container Portlet Container Portlet API Portlet API Portlet TLD Portlet TLD WSRP WSRP JSF JSF Spring Portlet MVC Spring Portlet MVC Vaadin Vaadin Liferay MVC Liferay MVC YUI YUI Alloy UI Alloy UI jQuery jQuery GWT GWT Virtualization Virtualization Caching Caching Indexing Indexing Clustering Clustering Layouts Layouts Themes Themes Hooks Hooks Extensions Extensions User Profiles User Profiles Permissions Permissions User Hierarchy/LDAP User Hierarchy/LDAP SSO/OpenID/OAuth SSO/OpenID/OAuth Assets Assets Events Events Categorization Categorization User Feedback User Feedback Templates Templates Scripting Scripting Workflow Workflow Message Bus Message Bus Audit Logs Audit Logs Monitoring Monitoring Import/Export Import/Export Versioning Versioning Web Services Web Services REST Services REST Services WebDAV WebDAV Mobile Devices Mobile Devices Framework Platform
29. Portlet Container Portlet Container Portlet API Portlet API Portlet TLD Portlet TLD WSRP WSRP JSF JSF Spring Portlet MVC Spring Portlet MVC Vaadin Vaadin Liferay MVC Liferay MVC YUI YUI Alloy UI Alloy UI jQuery jQuery GWT GWT Virtualization Virtualization Caching Caching Indexing Indexing Clustering Clustering Layouts Layouts Themes Themes Hooks Hooks Extensions Extensions User Profiles User Profiles Permissions Permissions Assets Assets Events Events Categorization Categorization User Feedback User Feedback Templates Templates Scripting Scripting Workflow Workflow Message Bus Message Bus Audit Logs Audit Logs Monitoring Monitoring Import/Export Import/Export Versioning Versioning Web Services Web Services REST Services REST Services WebDAV WebDAV Mobile Devices Mobile Devices Framework Platform User Hierarchy/LDAP User Hierarchy/LDAP SSO/OpenID/OAuth SSO/OpenID/OAuth
30. Portlet Container Portlet Container Portlet API Portlet API Portlet TLD Portlet TLD WSRP WSRP JSF JSF Spring Portlet MVC Spring Portlet MVC Vaadin Vaadin Liferay MVC Liferay MVC YUI YUI Alloy UI Alloy UI jQuery jQuery GWT GWT Virtualization Virtualization Caching Caching Indexing Indexing Clustering Clustering Layouts Layouts Themes Themes Hooks Hooks Extensions Extensions User Profiles User Profiles Permissions Permissions Assets Assets Events Events Categorization Categorization User Feedback User Feedback Templates Templates Scripting Scripting Workflow Workflow Message Bus Message Bus Audit Logs Audit Logs Monitoring Monitoring Import/Export Import/Export Versioning Versioning Web Services Web Services REST Services REST Services WebDAV WebDAV Mobile Devices Mobile Devices Liferay Social Office Liferay Social Office Framework Platform Product User Hierarchy/LDAP User Hierarchy/LDAP SSO/OpenID/OAuth SSO/OpenID/OAuth
31. Step 2: Clear up with the prejudice that portals are heavyweight and complicated! Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wee_in_yyc/4477827229/
32. public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld (); . . . } } public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld (); . . . } } How many times you needed this:
33. <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> <bean id="helloWorld" class="com.tutorialspoint.HelloWorld"> <property name="message" value="Hello World!"/> </bean> </beans> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> <bean id="helloWorld" class="com.tutorialspoint.HelloWorld"> <property name="message" value="Hello World!"/> </bean> </beans> import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml"); HelloWorld obj = (HelloWorld) context.getBean("helloWorld"); . . . } } import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml"); HelloWorld obj = (HelloWorld) context.getBean("helloWorld"); . . . } } public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld (); . . . } } public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { HelloWorld obj = new HelloWorld (); . . . } } How many times you needed this: and ended up writing these:
34. Component container is heavyweight and complicated!
35. ATG Nucleus ATG Nucleus Component container is heavyweight and complicated!
36. PicoContainer PicoContainer ATG Nucleus ATG Nucleus Component container is heavyweight and complicated! doesn't have to be X
37. PicoContainer PicoContainer Spring Framework Spring Framework ATG Nucleus ATG Nucleus Component container is heavyweight and complicated! doesn't have to be X
38. Apache Pluto Apache Pluto Liferay Liferay Oracle Oracle Webcenteer Webcenteer A portal doesn't have to be heavyweight and complicated !
39. Step 3: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein Photo: http://missionforhealth.com.au/starting-school-tips-for-building-confidence-in-your-child/
46. http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/liferay-s-architecture-the-beginning-of-a-blog-series
47. http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/liferay-s-architecture-the-beginning-of-a-blog-series Start with the features you really need
48. http://www.liferay.com/web/jorge.ferrer/blog/-/blogs/liferay-s-architecture-the-beginning-of-a-blog-series Start with the features you really need Add more gradually as new needs appear
49. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deano/4961904776 Let me show you
50. And finally: Remember, you are not alone! Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41995153@N08/4120100716
51. http://www.liferay.com/marketplace
52. http://www.liferay.com/community/projects
53. Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4759535950/ milen.dyankov@liferay.com http://www.liferay.com/web/milen.dyankov/ @milendyankov @LiferayPL