Web Portals

CONCEPTS

1. What is it?
   1. Specially Design Website that Brings information from diverse sources In uniform way
   2. Present User with a single Webpage that aggregates content from number of other systems/ Servers
2. How does it work
   1. Portlets: Each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information
   2. Services may be included such as email, news, stock quotes, information from databases and entertainment content
   3. Uniformity of the look and feel depends on intended user and intended purpose, as well as diversity of content. As metaphor for configuring and customising presentation of content and chosen implementation framework.
   4. Engineering Concept
      1. Application Server/Architecture Connects to database servers that is part of clustered server environment
3. Classification of Portals
   1. Horizontal Portal: Platform to several companies in same sector or same type of manufacturers or distributors
   2. Vertical Portal: Specialised entry point to specific market or industry niche, subject area or interest
      1. Vertical Information Portals: Provide news, editorial content, digital publications, e-commerce capabilities, Dynamic multimedia applications, social networking, video posting, blogging
4. Types of Web Portals
   1. Personal Portals
      1. Web Page at a Website OR local HTML homepage
      2. Personalised capabilities to visitor or local user, and serves as pathway to other content using the following
         1. Distributed Applications
         2. Middleware
         3. Network of Hardware
   2. Government Web Portals
   3. Cultural Portals
      1. Collections of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
      2. Point of access to invisible web cultural content not indexed by standard search engines
      3. Based around specific national or regional groupings of institution
   4. Corporate Web Portals/ Intranets
      1. See Intranet
   5. Stock Portals
      1. Latest online data, news, reports and announcements. Means to manage portfolio.
   6. Search Portals
   7. Tender Portals
   8. Hosted Web Portals and Domain Specific Portals
   9. Mashups
   10. Intranet Dashboards
5. How it is done
   1. Standards
      1. Web Services for Remote Portlets v1
      2. JSR 168 (Java)
      3. JSR 286 (Java Portlet v2.0 Definition Standard)

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal

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