Here's some of the attributes of a portal: 1. It shows be able to serve as a sort of "digital dashboard", placing the most important aspects of your job under immediate view and serving as a launchpad for the rest.
2. The portal page may contain one or more complete self-contained mini-webapps. 3. Because portal pages can pull data from many sources (especially if they display RSS newsfeeds), a good portal implementation will have support for caching. The page can't fully display until the slowest contributor has finished - even if the user's not interested in that item, since HTML doesn't have support for partial page updates. 4. Portals encourage Single Sign-on (SSO) support. Consider: what happens if you have 12 applications pulling content from 12 places displaying data on your portal page - and every last one of them requires a userid/password to be supplied before they can run? HTH, Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: portal frameworks vs. struts > > > I would not call Cocoon a portal framework, it's indeed an > XML framework > and so much more widespreaded. But Cocoon 2.1 offers as an additional > block the portal framework. > > What's a portal? Hmm, I'm not an expert, but I would say it is one > common user interface for different sources of information. This user > interface should be highly customizable. > I guess you will find more information at the JetSpeed homgepage > (http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/), otherwise at google. > > Struts is only a "poor" formular handling framework. This > functionality > is also covered by Cocoon by the woody block. > > Joerg > > On 05.01.2004 19:02, Naresh Agarwal wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I'm new to the world of portals/web apps. > > > > What is a portal framework? What is the difference between > a portal framework like jetspeed/cocoon and struts? > > > > I'm looking for a tool/framework, which can help in > development of a category of websites, which has basic > features as follows: > > > > 1) Allows user/partner login and user/partner profiles > > 2) Uploading and downloading of data along with access control > > 3) Other features of a typical web site, like browsing with > in a web site etc, fast loading of pages etc. > > > > What will be right choice for developing such web sites - a > portal framework like jetspeed/cocoon or struts web > application framework? > > > > Any leads/pointers will be greatly appreciated. > > > > thanks, > > Naresh > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error, and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please return the e-mail to the sender and delete it from your computer. Although our company attempts to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either are virus-free and accepts no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
