Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

CHAPTER 1Out-of-the-Box Oracle Application Server Portal Technologies

Oracle defines Oracle Application Server Portal as "a rich, declarative environment for creating a portal Web interface, publishing and managing information, accessing dynamic data, and customizing the portal experience, with an extensible framework for J2EE-based application access." While that one-sentence summarization is quite a mouthful, it does not do OracleAS Portal justice. OracleAS Portal is an incredibly powerful environment that enables developers to create and test sophisticated applications, all while writing and maintaining a very small amount of code, if they desire. Like any truly powerful development environment, OracleAS Portal can be used in a multitude of ...