March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
Thus far in this book we have focused on the frontend of the portal, examining the needs of human users working interactively through their web browsers. The most visible part of the portal, the frontend serves the business goals of the portal by helping organizations work together more closely, sharing information, creating transactions, and interacting in many ways. But a portal is much more than its frontend. The portal must consolidate information from multiple, disparate sources and provide ways for applications to interoperate. This chapter delves into addressing a different set of business goals: making applications talk to one another.
To really connect businesses, government, individuals, ...
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