IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook

Chapter 2. Portal technology 11

WebSphere Portal provides a framework for addressing all these issues along

with an open flexible infrastructure for creating many types or portals accessible

from a wide variety of devices.

2.1.1 The generations of portal technology

Portals have gone through an evolution process of their own.

First generation portals

The first portals, known as first generation portals, were focused on providing

static Web content, Web documents and live feeds. They were mostly an

aggregation of content. In a corporate environment, they had a similar objective,

providing a single interface to corporate information distributed throughout the

enterprise. They typically contained information such as company news,

employee contact ...