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9.4.1.1 Getting Creative

There may be a way to creatively deliver descriptive metadata in the transac-

tion environment by not having to interface with the legacy applications—by

using a portal.

We created a corporate dictionary/glossary for a client, which was using the

AquaLogic portal set of tools. We created a very simple glossary search portlet

that looks like Google’s one fill-in-the-blank text box with a “Go!” button to the

right (shown in Chapter 8). We placed the portlet on the intranet home page, so

that it was available anywhere. An even better mechanism that we looked into

(but did not implement because it required too much work) ...