Portal Architect's Toolbox (Continued)
Developer Technical Articles
To gain a deeper understanding of best practices and useful techniques for working with portal development technologies, explore this selection of technical articles from five portal infrastructure technology vendors.
Building a Dynamic Portlet Using JSP Tags
Source: BEA Systems
Included with the WebLogic Personalization Server is a set of tag libraries that enable your JSPs access to the full power of the personalization engine. In this project, you will use tags from the User Management and Personalization Utilities tag libraries. This portlet will output the username and e-mail address of all users of your portal.
Building a Portlet within the Model-View-Controller Paradigm using WebSphere Portal
Source: IBM
This article describes a portlet implementation and design within a Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm in the context of WebSphere Portal 4.1. WebSphere Portal supports MVC by using Listeners to handle events generated through user actions, and JSPs to generate views.
Search and Access Disparate Data Repositories in Your Enterprise
Source: Microsoft
This article discusses the use of ActiveX Data Objects and the Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol for creating search solutions based on SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
Best Practices for Portal Navigation
Source: Oracle
An important part of your portal design is its navigation. You want navigation to be consistent in approach and instrumental in providing a successful user experience. Additionally, it should be easy to create, easy to standardize, and easy to apply to multiple locations. Oracle9iAS Portal includes key tools and objects for streamlining the creation and deployment of site-wide, as well as page-specific, navigation. This technical note demonstrates a variety of navigation models and provides information on how to construct them.
Search and Browse in the Sun ONE Portal Server
Source: Sun Microsystems
Tight integration between portals and search technology is crucial in delivering a compelling portal experience. This paper describes search and browse features found in the Sun ONE Portal Server including passage-based document retrieval, linguistic tools, and browseable taxonomies.
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